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Portland, day by day

Portland tore out a riverside motorway in 1974, put a Ming garden on a downtown block, and keeps the finest Japanese garden outside Japan in the hills above the city. These plans cover downtown and the Pearl, Washington Park, and the day east into the Columbia River Gorge.

Updated 13 September 2026 · 4 official sources checked · report an error

Portland
Photo: Barb Salam, CC BY-SA 4.0

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3 days in Portland

3 Days in Portland
3 days3 Days in PortlandPowell's City of Books and the Pearl District, Pioneer Courthouse Square, the Portland Art Museum, Lan Su Chinese Garden and the waterfront, then the Japanese Garden, the rose test garden, Hoyt Arboretum, the Oregon Zoo and Pittock Mansion, then Vista House, Latourell, Wahkeena and Multnomah Falls.

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Good to know in Portland

Downtown museums and gardens

  • The Portland Art Museum is open Sunday and Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 17:00 and is closed on Mondays, as well as on 1 January, 4 July, Thanksgiving and 25 December. Admission is $27.50 for adults, $24.50 and $22.50 for concessions, and entry is free from 10:00 to 19:00 on the first Thursday of each month.Source: Portland Art Museum — Hours and admission · checked Sep 2026

Washington Park: the zoo and Pittock Mansion

  • The Oregon Zoo runs seasonal daytime hours: open daily 09:30 to 17:30 with last entry at 16:30 in the summer season, and 09:30 to 15:30 with last entry at 14:30 in the winter season, dropping to Friday-to-Monday opening in the quietest winter weeks. It closes on 25 December and on selected days for private events, and asks that tickets be purchased in advance online.Source: Oregon Zoo — Hours and Tickets · checked Sep 2026

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Places and coordinates: Wikidata and Tripwoa's open-data place catalog (Overture Maps Foundation, © OpenStreetMap contributors). Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each image. Practical rules: the official sources linked in each note, checked in September 2026.

How this plan was made: Tripwoa's planner drafted the day order from real coordinates and typical visit times. Each stop was then reviewed, reordered where needed and rewritten with AI assistance. Walking distances are straight-line estimates, so allow a little extra time on real streets.