Portland Oregon Travel Guide: Best Things To Do in Portland 

As someone who has lived in PDX for 5 years I have to applaud you for showing only the best the city has to offer.

Seriously the best Touring Channel on youtube information + actually showing you the places instead of those lame girls who keep showing themselves 99% of the time! Anyone reading this Yes you should Subscribe!

The clear blue sky and greenery is awesome.

Thanks for the travel guide! Really well said! Hope u have an amazing day my friend

Thank you for bringing back some good memories I have about this beautiful city

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland

Young people use to ‘come to Portland to retire’ 10+ years ago, a’la ‘The Dream on the 90s’ from Portlandia. It hasn’t been that way in a loooong time. Though still affordable compared to other major costal cities, cost of living has skyrocketed year after year. In 2010 an apartment goin for $600 is now $1600 and up.

Thank you. Great video, as usual. I learn a lot from you about Portland esp it being a 'retirement city' for young people!

i love that one can walk from portland to vancouver

Yes! Finally someone chill, down to earth, that know his sht about places without sugarcoating or downplaying. I really enjoy watching. Thank you Island Hopper.

Thanks for this Nostalgic video Sir❤

Nice video Jeff! Interesting about the bubbly fountains in Portland. I bet the birds love them too !

I really enjoyed watching the video. Thanks a lot🍔😀

With so much negative videos about Portland....thank you. Thank you for showing the positive side of Portland. Despite the destruction and ruin from the Pandemic, Portland will rise out of the ashes, and will once again thrive. I subscribed

Ptown. Home town. Love it..... Really good tour video..... 💯

Heat wave there this weekend 🔥

Awesome video, thank you for sharing

Great city! Thanks for sharing.

Vancouver was my hometown, but I will never include it as a part of Portland, they're two different places but I equally love them ❤

I am heading through this area in May but was going to avoid Portland and stick to the Oregon coast but this makes me want to divert and explore Portland for a few hours

Am an old Portland gal and love your insightful sharing of my city. Shall check out more of your work as I look at where I want to go next.

Thanks man im coming here for my birthday this year definitely helped alot

THANK FOR SHOWING PORTLAND THE WAY IT REALLY IS ........beautiful quirky and eclectic

Very nice informative video. Nice filming. Great job.

I know I am not the only one to think this it's pronounced, Wil-lam-atte not wil-a-mette. Also to the friendliness, you aren't getting people that are actually from Portland Oregon in Portland anymore. Most of us that grew up in the area live in other states or outside by the city now. We have been priced out and taken over. The homegrown Oregonians enjoy the rain or at the very least don't mind it. It's the people that took over that don't like the colder rainer months. It's actually funny because when it's rains the transplants are like, "oh it rains so much!" When it's no where near as rainy and cold as it used to be. Good repping Pepinos as well. Good prices and good food. Used to live by there. Try the Surf and turf you won't regret it

There is so much more to portland than just downtown portland

Thank You!!!

I’ve been waiting for this tour since the Seattle tour. I’m glad you did it and once again it shows how beautiful and unique the PNW is. There is no place like it in this world.

Wow, Portland is since a nice town, oh wait, l was thinking of Portland Maine

I just visited. You have to try the shrimp and lobster po boy at Rock Paper Fish. I'm going back just for that

nice. enjoyed it!!!!

Nice tour!

Also its Sacajawea not sacawajeea. Its literally spelled out on the plaque below the statue

Portland is beautiful land like

I’m from the Portland area. I must say it did get crazy around here but it’s nothing scary these days. Back in mid April I went to the Carolinas for a spring break vacation. People at the bars were asking for my Id so they saw I’m from Portland and omg they kept scaring me. Telling me how my city was burning down that week I was gone and I got worried. Called my family to ask and oh my god it was nothing too crazy. Just the media blows everything out of proportion. Very sad how everyone all over thinks Portland is a war zone.

I'm from the PNW.If you are ever in Portland a must is to go to Voo Doo Donuts.It had the best donuts I've ever had.

I’m from Oklahoma I think Portland is nice city been there 3 times visiting family. 2010, 2013 and 2019. Like all big cities has share of problems like traffic and my last visit homelessness was big saw a lot of tents off roads. They clean up the homeless problem city would look nice. But I’d recommend visiting Portland go out and see Mt Hood, Multnomah Falls and Rose Gardens.

i love this city its my dream to move there

Thanks Jeff for describing first hand experience about Portland instead of the people who watch media and believe what they see on the screen. Learn for yourself, what a concept

I visited Portland last time in 2013. My most favorite place is the Columbia Gorge.

I heard that Sloe Gin Fizz works mighty fast, when you drink it by the pitcher and not by the glass in Oregon.

Watched lots of your videos...in your own opinion, what is one place or 3 top places that you really liked and you think is a good place to live?

Jeff, I like the music you put in your videos. Can you place links to the songs next time in the video description?

18:10 HE GAVE YOU THE MIDDLE FINGER.

I live in Downtown Portland. It is finally coming back! I am so happy to see my downtown emerging from the horrible year it went through. A lot of work still needs to be done, but many things have reopened, lots of boards came down from windows, and foot traffic has really jumped. The homeless problem is still very visible, unfortunately, (especially in Old Town/Chinatown) but the city is building villages where they will have to relocate to by fall. Downtown has been cleaned up significantly too. I think a year from now it will be back to normal. I have hope for my city again.

Funny, I just tried Salt and Straw ice cream for the first time a couple weeks ago at their Old Town Pasadena, California location. The line was really long there, too. I read that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson owns part of the company now.

What would you say would be the best place to park a car to visit Washington park and Powell books? Also a good mode of transportation downtown? I am visiting Portland so I would like to know the best way to get around downtown. Great video btw! Very informative travel video instead of “travel” videos that just show me food places.

the best thing to do in Portland is run run fast.

Will am it Is how you pronounce the river. Took me a while to get it right🥴

Lovely city ;) can’t wait to move there

Godblessportland

nice video when come to washington state very hot take hat on

It’s Willamette, Dammit!!!

Appreciate your nice tour of Portland and wanted to let you know it's pronounced wil LAM ette River. I pronounced it the same way as you when I first arrived, but was quickly corrected.

One of my sisters best friends lives here but is originally from our home state(Florida) he says it’s nice

Homelessness

Wow Beautiful 🥰🥰

😂 15:00 dude just FLYS by 30mph on a bike

Jeff did you only film the nice and clean areas because I hear Portland is very bad right now and since last year. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I would have like to move there, it looks so beautiful.

I love Portland! The wife and I are considering here or Seattle in a few years!!

I moved to Portland in the mid 80's from (where else) Los Angeles. 😊 The locals are really friendly then and some until now. The damage done by the protesters and rioters can still be seen around 3rd Ave. near the Justice Center and some are still there at night. And you nailed it when you are eating at Pepino's. That's one of the best place for Mexican food. One of the main problem here are the homeless or some public officials call them as (Unhoused Residents), God bless them.'

I live hear

What is the homeless situation like in Portland? I have heard it is a significant issue.

Commonly known as the Benson bubblers by the locals 💛

1. it's pronounced wil-LAM-ette, not WILL-am-ette. portlanders, and indeed all oregonians, get particular about that. 2. oregon state university is in corvallis, not beaverton. though beaverton high school shares a mascot (beaver) and colors (orange and black) with OSU. all in all, an enjoyable video. portland always has a place in my heart, even though i doubt i could live there again because it gets too cold and rainy for me in the winter. (and yes, i do note the irony in my saying that right after an unprecedented heat wave in the area.)

It's not just Vancouver that adds to the metro population. There's smaller cities all around Portland.

Guide: 1. turn around

Everything is still boarded up.... sounds right.

My friend sold his condo and left last year due to the "peaceful and firey protesters"

who drew on the lewis and clark monument OMG!!!!!

@18:10 dude put middle finger to the cam lol

Supposed to be 115 degrees F in Portland today

When the Pandemic hit Portland, it was destroyed. So many businesses closed, so many jobless, subsequent homeless, and eventually penniless Portlanders using Meth to escape the pains of reality and then die unhappy. It'll take about 10 or so years for Portland to be back to it's Pre-Pandemic days, but the next challenge is getting office workers (working from home) back into the thousands of abandoned office buildings downtown

Do you have any idea what is the best hotel in downtown to stay .This is my first time in Portland .Also how far is airport from downtown ? Thank you .

Street racing is legal in Portland. So if you have the IQ of a fence post and dream of being Vin Diesel going vroom vroom in your little car, Portland is the place to be! No cops, no tickets, no speed limits. Thanks Portland City Council!

Next summer I’m taking a 4 day trip to Seattle but has decided now use one of those day for a 24 hour day trip to Portland.

People post vacation pics in lunchroom at work (100+ employees) there's a picture of a guy in plain view at Portlands waterfront taking a crap.

What's with all the commentless links to Portland-hate videos in an apolitical travel guide video? Now, I get that in the Year of Our Lord 2021 it's illegal among the American Right to say anything good about Portland (or Seattle, Chicago, New York, or anywhere in California), but this is rather petty. It does kinda promote the current liberal stereotype that most conservative posters on YT are Russian spambots.

I really thought this was ggoing to be a spoof video, dripping with sarcasm. Yea, i WILL BE RIGHT THERE.

In many ways it looks like the Netherlands.

Such a cool town. Reminds me of Berkeley.

Good job hiding the tents

Is it just me or did that dude randomly Flip you the bird while you were recording at 18:07

Best thing to do is avoid this shoot hole.

When I lived in the Mississippi Corridor back in the late 90's, it was the edge of the inner city, they started gentrifying there in early 1998, now the hipsters have taken over and displaced most of the generations of Minorities.

1:07 but Oregon had no tax, what has changed?

The Water front NOT full of homeless people? That’s been a staple of Portland my entire life! I was born there!

So YOU'RE the guy who uses Amtrak!

Mississippi is a nice walk and never overcrowded when I go...restaurants, food carts, cannabis, burgers, donuts everything!! So peaceful! And yes the media overhyped the “destruction” just like they did in Seattle. I go to both often and while a lot of the people are progressives, I haven’t seen anything over the top, I feel safe. I enjoyed this video! Also some of Twilight was filmed in and around the area, check out the filming locations. Were they still doing construction on the Tom McCall waterfront? Pittock Mansion, Shanghai Tunnels... I wish the Grilled Cheese Grill was still open. The food carts are amazing. Columbia River Gorge, Multnomah Falls, Rocky Butte... The Grotto, Mount Tabor Park (The York Sculpture) the man who doesn’t get credit for helping Lewis and Clark on the expedition....St. John’s Bridge just to name another few places...and they have some great parks!!! Check them out everyone!!

This is like making a travel guide video for a favela in Brazil.

I grew up in Portland. It's pronounced the Will-am-itt River. Not wil-a-met.

It's actually named after Portland, ME

Thank you! Fox News was really blowing up the negative rhetoric. Last time I was there I had a great time and very peaceful. I'm from Chicago and it's not that bad here either just takes some thick skin to live in big cities. I will be back again.

you said, young people come to Portland to retire? so they can stop work at a young age?

Called Willamette pronounced (wil am mit)

Hey I know that guy I saw him

So Portland is the new San Francisco

2023 travel guide: do NOT go to Portland. Less you like to see piles of human shit outside every shop in the state

This travel guide video juxtaposes nicely with this visitor video from the Portland Tourist Bureau: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kfD1JwfuuBg.html

Idk what the will a met is....