Portland: Best of the City Small Group Walking Tour｜United States

Meet your guide at Director Park and set off on a walking tour of Portland. Explore the cultural district, park blocks, and Portlandia. Discover what makes Portland walkable, passionate, and full of activism. Learn about Oregon's history of urban design, art, architecture, and hippies.

From cast iron-fronted buildings to the grandly disastrous post-modern Portland Building, much of Portland’s history can be told through the buildings and street layouts; most importantly, the prioritization of parks throughout the city center.

Learn how the city’s early urban planners decided on their layouts, how modern designers look at the past and plan for the future, and who the people these streets are named for. Hear about the modern rise of radical activists in Portland and how that is intimately connected to the city’s history going back more than a century.