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Delve into Kings Heights
The district Kings Heights of in Multnomah County (Oregon) is a district located in United States about 2,349 mi west of Washington DC, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 7°C / 44 °F
Morning Temperature | 6°C / 43 °F |
Evening Temperature | 8°C / 47 °F |
Night Temperature | 8°C / 47 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 13% |
Air Humidity | 97% |
Air Pressure | 1011 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 9 km/h (6 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Monday, 6th of May 2024
11°C (52 °F)
7°C (45 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Tuesday, 7th of May 2024
14°C (58 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 8th of May 2024
15°C (60 °F)
9°C (49 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Portland a Luxury Collection Hotel The Nines
ABODA at Block 17
ABODA at Indigo at 12 West
THE BENSON. A COAST HOTEL
Hilton Portland Downtown
The Heathman Hotel Portland
Dossier
Portland Marriott City Center
SENTINEL HOTEL
The Duniway Portland a Hilton Hotel
Videos from this area
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HD Amtrak Cascades at Portland Union Station
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The Portland Swifts
The Portland Swifts go to roost at Chapman School every year in September before migrating to Central America and Venezuela.
You Cannot Stop Us We Are The Rose City
Playing at Jeld-Wen Field against Philadelphia on 5/6/11, the entire stadium takes up the chant. Photo credit to Allison Andrews.
Expedia Kids in the City: Portland with Amy Whitley
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PHAME @ 30 Holiday Finale
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PTFC - Bury me in Timbers Green !
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Green Living Journal Deliveries By Portland Pedal Power
During the worst rains storms of the winter Portland Pedal Power delivers Green Living Journals to Downtown Portland, OR.
Ted Talks Portland (a city with a small town feel) - by Urban Peacock
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
International Rose Test Garden
The International Rose Test Garden is a rose garden in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon, United States. There are over 7,000 rose plants of approximately 550 varieties. The roses bloom from April through October with the peak coming in June, depending on the weather. New rose cultivars are continually sent to the garden from many parts of the world and are tested for color, fragrance, disease resistance and other attributes.
Jeld-Wen Field
Jeld-Wen Field (formerly PGE Park; Civic Stadium; originally Multnomah Stadium; and from 1893 until the stadium was built, Multnomah Field) is an outdoor sports stadium located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States that is used primarily for soccer and American football.
Goose Hollow / SW Jefferson St
Goose Hollow/SW Jefferson Street is a light rail station on the MAX Blue Line and Red Line in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It is the third stop westbound on the Westside MAX alignment and makes several cameo appearances in the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? as the stop where Marlee Matlin's character boards the train to get into town.
Kings Hill / Southwest Salmon
The Kings Hill/SW Salmon station is a light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Its incorrectly punctuated name refers to the hillside to the west of the station, which has historically been referred to as King's Hill. A section of King's Hill, which contains many historic buildings, qualified for inclusion within the King's Hill Historic District, the easternmost boundary of which is at SW 21st Avenue.
Portland Japanese Garden
The Portland Japanese Garden is a traditional Japanese garden occupying 5.5 acres (22,000 m²), located within Washington Park in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, USA.
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition
The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, commonly also known as the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and officially known as the Lewis and Clark Centennial American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair, was a worldwide exposition held in Portland, Oregon, United States in 1905 to celebrate the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Washington Park (Portland, Oregon)
Washington Park is a public urban park in Portland, Oregon. It includes a zoo, forestry museum, arboretum, children's museum, rose garden, Japanese garden, amphitheatre, memorials, archery range, tennis courts, soccer field, picnic areas, playgrounds, public art, and many acres of wild forest with miles of trails.
Hoyt Arboretum
The Hoyt Arboretum is located atop a ridge in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1922 by a collection of timber industry representatives, the U.S. Forest Service, the Portland Parks & Recreation department, and enthusiasts. The 187-acre arboretum hosts just under ten thousand individual trees and shrubs of more than eleven hundred species from all over the world. Most have labels identifying common and scientific names and region of origin.
Portland Ice Arena (Oregon)
The Portland Ice Arena, also called the Portland Ice Hippodrome or the Portland Hippodrome, was a 2,000-seat multi-purpose arena located in northwest Portland, Oregon, USA. It was home to the Portland Rosebuds Pacific Coast Hockey Association franchise from 1914 and 1918 and the Portland Buckaroos from 1928 to 1941. It was built in 1914 and closed in the 1950s due to concerns about fire safety.
Vaughn Street Park
Vaughn Street Park was a baseball park located in Portland, Oregon. It opened in 1901, and was torn down in 1956. Its primary tenant was the Portland Beavers Pacific Coast League team. During a stretch when the club was tagged as the "Lucky Beavers", the ballpark was also sometimes called Lucky Beavers Stadium. Today, the site is an industrial property, with no traces of the stadium remaining except for a plaque.
Vista Bridge
The Vista Bridge (officially, Vista Avenue Viaduct) is an arch bridge for vehicles and pedestrians located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It connects the areas of King's Hill and Vista Ridge (the entire southern hillside is also referred to as Portland Heights) which are both in the Goose Hollow neighborhood. The MAX Light Rail line and Jefferson Street/Canyon Road travel under the bridge, and Vista Avenue crosses the bridge.
Vista Ridge Tunnels
The Vista Ridge Tunnels are highway tunnels through the Tualatin Mountains ("West Hills") of Portland, Oregon, USA. Located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood, the tunnels pass through a hillside locally known as Vista Ridge which is a half mile (1 km) west of downtown Portland. Sunset Highway, also known as U.S. Route 26, is carried through the tunnels, three lanes in each direction. They are Oregon's busiest tunnels.
Canyon Road
Canyon Road (Great Plank Road at inception) is a road connecting Beaverton and Portland, Oregon, United States. It was the first road between the Tualatin Valley and Portland and contributed significantly to Portland becoming the area's major deep water port, and subsequent early growth of the city. The total modern length is 6.5 miles .
MacTarnahan's Brewing Company
MacTarnahan's Brewing Company is an American craft brewery located in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Formerly called Portland Brewing Company, it was bought by Pyramid Brewery in 2004, and Pyramid was bought by Magic Hat Brewing Company in 2008. MacTarnahan's was acquired in August 2010 by North American Breweries of Rochester, New York.
Cascade Cycling Classic
The Cascade Cycling Classic is the longest consecutively run elite road bicycle racing stage race in the United States (1979–2010). It takes place in the Central Oregon region and is based in Bend, Oregon. It is a regular fixture for most of North America's top cyclists and teams. In recent years the race has been sponsored by the Bend Memorial Clinic while being organized by the Mt. Bachelor Ski Education Foundation.
Eva Emery Dye
Eva Emery Dye (1855–1947) was an American writer, historian, and prominent member of the Women's Suffrage movement. As the author of several historical novels, fictional yet thoroughly researched, she is credited with "romanticizing the historic West, turning it into a poetic epic of expanding civilization. " Her best known work, Conquest: The True Story of Lewis & Clark (1902), is notable for being the first to present Sacagawea as a historically significant character in her own right.
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (Portland, Oregon)
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon of The Episcopal Church. The cathedral is located at 147 N.W. 19th Ave. , Portland, Oregon 97209, in the Northwest District. The legal name of the cathedral corporation is Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Northwest Portland, Oregon
The following list attempts to comprehensively present the full set of National Register of Historic Places listings in Northwest Portland, Oregon, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States.
West Side CSO Tunnel
The West Side Combined Sewer Overflow Tunnel (also West Side Big Pipe) is a tunnel in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is to receive and store overflow from the combined sewer system before it can reach the Willamette River. The main tunnel is 14 feet in diameter and 3.5 miles long for a capacity of 2,850,000 cubic feet and connects to dozens of smaller sewer overflow interceptors along the west side of the Willamette River.
Metropolitan Learning Center (Portland, Oregon)
Metropolitan Learning Center (Portland, Oregon) is a public K-12 school in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Couch Park
Couch Park is a city park in downtown Portland, Oregon, located at the intersection of Northwest 19th Avenue and Glisan Street. Named after merchant John H. Couch, the park was acquired in 1977.
Oregon Holocaust Memorial
The Oregon Holocaust Memorial is an outdoor memorial dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. Located in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park, the memorial was dedicated on August 29, 2004. Owned by the American Jewish Committee and constructed by Atlas Landscape Architecture and the Walsh Construction Company, the idea for a memorial was proposed in 1994 by Alice Kern and a local group of Holocaust survivors that met through the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.
Wallace Park (Portland, Oregon)
Wallace Park is a city park in northwest Portland, Oregon. The park was acquired in 1920, and is named after Hugh W. Wallace, the city councilman responsible for getting the property allocated as a city park. One art installation in the park is a 1980 sculpture by Manuel Izquierdo called Silver Dawn. Also located within the park and surrounding school yard exist eleven bronze objects, created by artist Bill Will in 1998, "tucked away in unexpected places".
Clear Creek Distillery
Clear Creek Distillery is a distillery based in Portland, Oregon. Clear Creek Distillery is most well known for its eau de vie, though today the company also makes a variety of other fruit brandy, aged spirits, and liqueurs.
Vaux's Swift
Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi) is a small swift native to North America and northern South America. It was named for the American scientist William Sansom Vaux.