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Intro to Portland Small Group Walking Tour

By Around Portland Tours
4.8 out of 5
Free cancellation available
Price is $29 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview

10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m.

Start at DIRECTOR PARK

Our downtown Portland, Oregon tours are engaging, well-paced and colorful: the Best of the City! It’s a weird city, but there are stories in every building, park and brick. We’ve organized our city’s best things – and of course, its most complicated and conflicted, as well. In an ever-changing world we continuously change the story of the city.

Much of Portland’s history can be told through the buildings and street layouts including the prioritization of parks in the city center. It’s not a dry history: full of back-room deals, early deaths and greed; and then there were hippies!

How did Portland become the 1st city on the West Coast with a fine art museum? How did the city's early cultural reputation influence its mid-20th century; and how did it become such a lightning rod for racial justice protests? We'll discuss what was, is, and will be the soul of the city.

We keep groups to no more than 15 for personalization and safety.

Activity location

  • Director Park
    • 815 SW Park Ave
    • 97205-3084, Portland, Oregon, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Director Park
    • 815 Southwest Park Avenue
    • 97205, Portland, Oregon, United States

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The soul of the city
  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m2h 30m
  • English

The soul of the city

Language options: English
Starting time: 1:30pm
Price details
$29.00 x 1 Adult$29.00
Total
Price is $29.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedCertified Guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGratuities (always appreciated)

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Director Park
  • 1m
All tours start at DIRECTOR PARK. We'll meet you in the southeast corner of this urban hardscape park, near the intersection of SW Taylor and SW Park Ave. Our meeting spot is across the street from entrance to the Regal Fox Tower. Parking is available on the streets nearby or in lots in the adjacent building. The MAX light rail comes just a block away, at the Pioneer Square stop.
South Park Blocks
  • 10m
Much of Portland’s history can be told through the buildings and street layouts; most importantly, the prioritization of parks throughout the city center. We'll walk through the park blocks and learn why they were laid out this way; and what the park blocks' designer didn't do before he died.
The Portland Building
  • 5m
From cast iron-fronted buildings to the grandly disastrous post-modern Portland Building, we trace our history through architectural choices our city planners made.
Pioneer Courthouse Square
  • 10m
No tour of downtown Portland, or history of the city's relationships with hippies, would be complete without a visit to Pioneer Courthouse Square. From its past as the center of education to the drive to keep out the "dirty hippies," we'll learn how and why this square has never been far from the minds of Portlanders and the city's visitors.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESDirector Park
    • 815 SW Park Ave
    • 97205-3084, Portland, Oregon, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEDirector Park
    • 815 Southwest Park Avenue
    • 97205, Portland, Oregon, United States

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