Top Reasons to Go to Portland

Unleash your inner foodie: Don't miss an amazingly textured range of global delights, created with fresh, locally harvested ingredients.

Beer "hop": Over fifty local microbrews, producing offbeat varieties of beer with such names as Hallucinator, Doggie Claws, and Sock Knocker await.

Experience McMenamins: Visit one of the local chain's beautifully restored properties, such as a renovated elementary school turned hotel.

Take a stroll through Washington Park: The International Rose Test Garden, Japanese Garden, Oregon Zoo, World Forestry Center, and Children's Museum are all here.

Peruse pages at Powell's City of Books: The aisles of this city block–sized shop are filled with more than a million new and used books. Top off hours of literary wanderlust with a mocha or ginseng tea downstairs at World Cup Coffee and Tea House.