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Delve into Willamette Heights
The district Willamette Heights of in Multnomah County (Oregon) is a subburb in United States about 2,349 mi west of Washington DC, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Portland, Vancouver, Oregon City, Hillsboro and Saint Helens. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 8°C / 46 °F
Morning Temperature | 2°C / 35 °F |
Evening Temperature | 6°C / 43 °F |
Night Temperature | 4°C / 39 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 42% |
Air Pressure | 1025 hPa |
Wind Speed | Calm with 2 km/h (1 mph) from South |
Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 0% of sky |
General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Wednesday, 4th of December 2024
8°C (47 °F)
5°C (41 °F)
Sky is clear, calm, clear sky.
Thursday, 5th of December 2024
8°C (46 °F)
6°C (43 °F)
Light rain, calm, overcast clouds.
Friday, 6th of December 2024
9°C (48 °F)
10°C (49 °F)
Overcast clouds, calm.
Hotels and Places to Stay
ABODA at Block 17
THE BENSON. A COAST HOTEL
ABODA at Indigo at 12 West
Portland Marriott City Center
SENTINEL HOTEL
Hilton Portland Downtown
The Heathman Hotel Portland
Dossier
Canopy by Hilton Portland Pearl District
Hotel Vintage Portland
Videos from this area
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The Portland Swifts
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In The Can: Factory Farms
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Green Living Journal Deliveries By Portland Pedal Power
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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.
E. Henry Wemme
E. Henry Wemme (1861–1914) was a wealthy businessman in Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was an active business investor during the pioneering era of automobiles and aviation. A farmer's son born in the village of Crostau, Kingdom of Saxony, Germany as Ernest Heinrich Wemme, he had only a grade-school education. Facing enrollment in the German army, he immigrated to the United States at 18 years of age, not intending to stay. He later said he "went broke and couldn't get away.
KOIN
KOIN, virtual channel 6.1 (branded as "KOIN Local 6"), is the CBS affiliated-television station serving the Portland metropolitan area and is owned by the LIN Television Corporation. Its transmitter is located in Portland, Oregon, United States; it broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 40. KOIN's studios are located in the basement of the KOIN Center skyscraper on SW Columbia Street in Downtown Portland.
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.
KRCW-TV
KRCW-TV is the CW-affiliated television station for Portland, Oregon that is licensed to Salem. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 33 from a transmitter in the Sylvan-Highlands section of Portland. Owned by the Tribune Company, KRCW has studios on Southwest Arctic Drive in Beaverton. Syndicated programming on the station includes: Seinfeld, Two and a Half Men, Family Guy, and Friends.
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.
KUPL
KUPL is an American commercial broadcast radio station based in and licensed to Portland, Oregon, playing country music. The station is owned by Alpha Broadcasting, which purchased CBS Radio's Portland station cluster in August 2009.
Oregon Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Oregon Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 3.25 acre (30k m²) outdoor memorial dedicated to Oregonians who served in the Vietnam War. It is located in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park at {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:45.5120|N|122.71857|W||||| | |name= }}. The memorial was dedicated in 1987, inspired in 1982 by visits to the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial by five veterans and the parents of a Marine killed in Vietnam. Walker and Macy of Portland designed the memorial.
KUFO (AM)
KUFO is a radio station owned by Alpha Broadcasting and located in downtown Portland, Oregon. Since June 2008, it has featured a talk radio format, dominated by syndicated shows. The station also airs Portland State Vikings college football and basketball games and Portland Winterhawks hockey games.
KINK
KinK was a Canadian documentary television series, which first aired in 2001 on Showcase. The series profiled some of the more unusual edges of human sexuality, primarily the kink and fetish scenes. It was filmed in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg; the fifth season, set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, first aired in September 2006. KinK was produced by Vancouver's Paperny Films.
Sylvan-Highlands, Portland, Oregon
Sylvan-Highlands is a Portland, Oregon neighborhood located on the west side of the West Hills.
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.
KQAC
KQAC (89.9 FM, "All Classical 89.9") is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Portland, Oregon. Established in 1983 as KBPS-FM, it broadcasts classical music and fine arts information to listeners in northwest Oregon, southwest Washington, and around the world via the Internet. According to Arbitron ratings, as of December 2010, KQAC was the has the second most listened to classical music station in the United States. KQAC is owned by All Classical Public Media, Inc.
Balch Creek
Balch Creek is a 3.5-mile tributary of the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at the crest of the Tualatin Mountains (West Hills), the creek flows generally east down a canyon along Northwest Cornell Road in unincorporated Multnomah County and through the Macleay Park section of Forest Park, a large municipal park in Portland. At the lower end of the park, the stream enters a pipe and remains underground until reaching the river.
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.
Audubon Society of Portland
The Audubon Society of Portland is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to wildlife conservancy in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1909, it is one of the oldest such organizations in the world. It is named in honor of John James Audubon, an ornithologist and naturalist who painted, cataloged, and described birds of North America in Birds of America published in sections between 1827 and 1838.
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.
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.