Portland
Portland Oregon OR
- Country Code
- USA
- State Code
- OR
- Day Trips
- Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument (1 hour from downtown Portland)
- Over 30 years ago, this now-famous volcano erupted due to an earthquake, causing the largest landslide in recorded history. A mushroom cloud of ash burst from the volcano, darkening the sky and coating the landscape for miles. Mt St Helens lost 1,300 vertical feet over 100 acres of mature forest. Nowadays, the monument is a lesson in rebirth and tenacity, as once-devasted areas come back to life, and different species eke out an existence, creating a new environment.
- Gay Info
- Q Center, 503/234-7837. 4115 N Mississippi Ave, www.pdxqcenter.org.
- Portland Area Business Association 503/280-7222, www.paba.com.
- Aids Group
- Cascade AIDS Project 503/223-5907, www.cascadeaids.org.
- AIDS and STD Hotline
- 503/223-2437.
- Gay Aa
- Live & Let Live AA 503/228-6091, 1210 SE 7th.
- Gay Pride
- June. 503/295-9788, www.pridenw.org.
- Annual Events
- May - QDoc Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival, www.queerdocfest.org.
- May/ June - Rose Festival, www.rosefestival.org.
- August - Mount Hood Jazz Festival, www.mthoodjazz.com.
- September - La Femme Magnifique International Pageant, www.darcellexv.com.
- October - AIDS Walk 503/223-5907, www.cascadeaids.org.
- October - Portland LGBT Film Festival, www.plgff.org.
- Airport
- Portland International. Take 205 South, then 84 West to City Center/Morrison Bridge exit. Cross the bridge, take Washington St into town.
- Taxi
- Radio Cab 503/227-1212.
- Super Shuttle
- Raz 503/684-3322.
- Public Transport
- Tri-Met System 503/238-7433, www.trimet.org.
- Tourist Attraction
- The Grotto 503/254-7371, www.thegrotto.org.
- Microbreweries.
- Old Town.
- Pioneer Courthouse Square 503/223-1613, www.pioneercourthousesquare.org.
- Portland Art Museum 503/226-2811, www.portlandartmuseum.org.
- Washington Park.
- World Forestry Center & Discovery Museum 503/228-1367, www.worldforestrycenter.org.
- Visitors Bureau
- 503/275-9750, www.travelportland.com.
- Travel Oregon 800/962-3700.
- Weather
- The wet and sometimes chilly winter rains give Portland a lush landscape that bursts into beautiful colors in the spring and fall. Summer brings sunnier days. (Temperatures can be in the 50°s one day and the 90°s the next.)
- Best Views
- International Rose Test Gardens at Washington Park.
- Where The Girls Are
- Try along SE Hawthorne & Belmont streets where some of the women's businesses are, or the NW section, 21st & 23rd Aves, for the more upscale lesbians.