Lonely Planet Pocket Portland & the Willamette Valley

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788687287
• Print ISBN:
  9781788682756

Southeast

Southeast Portland ranges from ultra-hip areas like Hawthorne to the up-and-coming like Foster-Powell. It swarms with busy street life and is replete with indie shops, acclaimed restaurants and fun bars. If that’s not your scene, there are also some of the loveliest and most peaceful parks in the city.

Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden | TOMAS NEVESELY/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

The Short List

ABreweries Sampling craft suds at a range of tap houses like Hopworks Urban Brewery.

ATop chef eats Making the rounds at numerous eateries helmed by Portland’s culinary darlings, including Gabriel Rucker’s Canard.

ADoug Fir Lounge Catching touring and local indie bands in a subterranean venue with futuristic log-cabin decor.

AOregon Museum of Science & Industry Seeing science spring to life through interactive exhibits, lab demonstrations and a world-class planetarium.

ACrystal Springs Rhododendron Garden Admiring a symphonic display of 2000 rhododendrons and azaleas at peak bloom.

Getting There & Around

g Routes 2, 12, 14, 15, 19 and 20 connect the city center with Southeast via its major thoroughfares.

j The A Loop and B Loop streetcar lines connect with downtown via OMSI and Northeast via the convention center.

Top SightCraft Beer

Portland’s ‘Beervana’ nickname is well earned, thanks to some 80 craft breweries in the city limits – more than anywhere in the world. The scene has been going strong since the 1980s, leaving beer lovers spoiled for choice. You can experience the best of Beervana in the Southeast quadrant’s walkable neighborhoods, where great tasting rooms, brewpubs and bottle shops abound.

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g Southeast Portland is served by a number of routes; key ones include 2, 12, 14, 15,...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Welcome to Portland & the Willamette Valley
• Top Sights
• Eating
• Four Perfect Days
• Need to Know
• Downtown
• Washington Park
• Old Town Chinatown
• Northwest & the Pearl District
• Forest Park
• Northeast
• Kerns: The In-Between Zone
• Southeast
• Columbia River Gorge
• McMinnville
• Newberg & Dundee
• Salem
• Survival Guide
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers