9 Fun Facts About Portland, Oregon

Fun Facts About
Portland, Oregon9Presented by Columbia Redevelopment

Portland’s a family friendly city!
Portland has an amusement
park, public pools, and tons
of family friendly restaurants
like Slappy Cakes where
you can cook your own
pancakes!

Francis Petty Grove from
Portland, Maine and Asa Lovejoy
from Boston, Massachusetts
decided the name on a coin flip.
Portland was almost
named Boston.

Portlanders love their parks!
You’re never more
than a 15 minute
walk from a public
park in Portland.
Portland has over
300 parks,
including one of
the biggest in the
country.

But they might love their beer even more…
There are 65 craft
breweries in
Portland alone.
Nearly 50% of the
beer consumed in
Oregon was
brewed in the state.
There’s even the
Lucky Labrador, a
local brew that
welcomes dogs!

Portland is the city of champions!
Thorns
National Woman’s
Soccer League Title
2013
Timbers
Major League Soccer
Championship
2015

Lovejoy?
Evergreen
Terrace?
Flanders?
Matt Groening,
the creator of
The Simpsons!
named many of
the places and
characters after
the streets of
Portland.

Portland loves it’s books.
Powell’s
Bookstore
Among the biggest
independent
bookstores in the
world.
Independent
Publishing
Resource Center
Locals can write,
design and print
their own books.
In Other Words
One of the few
feminist bookstores
left in the country.

You can keep chickens, goats, ducks, rabbits
and even honeybees in your yard.
(just no roosters)

Portland is Bike
Town, U.S.A.
The only large American
city to be named a Platinum
Bicycle City (the highest
rating)
350 miles of bikeway
Over 7% of people
commute by bike

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