Our downtown Portland 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
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- And how did it develop into a hotbed for modern artists- 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 small for personalization and safety.