Portland Hill Walks is no ordinary guidebook. No restaurant ratings, no rehashed explanations of how the city got its name. Instead, in twenty meandering, view-studded strolls from forested canyons to cityscape peaks, this lively travelogue answers questions you may never have thought to ask, such as: What street used to be a row of floating homes? What eastside peak, with its "healthful air," was home to tuberculosis sanatoriums? What happened to the lake in Guilds Lake? What Portlander modeled swimwear in the U.S. Senate? Explore the city's streets, stairs, trails, and hidden passageways to discover the stories and spirit of a town rated among the country's most livable places.

Portland Hill Walks: Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods

Sports & Outdoors

Laura O. Foster

Hiking & Camping

Timber Press

Each of the 50 Walk There! routes begin and ends near a bus or MAX light rail stop. Users can access TriMet's Trip Planner to plan a trip to find exactly when the ride is coming. The legend clearly illustrates where there are schools and universities, parks, libraries, picnic areas, restrooms, and points-of-interest. With Walk There!, the little pocket-sized guidebook in hand, people can locate their walking destination. If they need to arrive using transportation, Walk There! has figured that into the map's details. People will see how much closer they live to places like movie theaters, antique shops, historic neighborhoods, a friend's home or a farmers' market. Walk There! delivers gratifying discovery as people see first-hand the difference between driving by and walking within an area they thought they knew. The history of place and the secrets uncovered are inspiring as people see open spaces belong to those who walk them, step after step, while getting healthy.

Walk There! 50 treks in and around Portland and Vancouver

Coaching

Metro

The Columbia River Gorge: It's like a national park but with better restaurants. Columbia Gorge Getaways is the only complete visitor's guidebook to the Columbia River Gorge, one of the nation's first National Scenic Areas. With this book, you've got a year's worth of weekend-long adventures in and around the gorge's historic riverfront towns, on both the Washington and Oregon sides of the river. And it's all within 115 miles of Portland. With the book's 12 ready-to-go vacation itineraries, it's like having a personal tour guide always ready in your glove-box. The itineraries--plus a one to five-day highlights tour--contain everything you need to know to have a blast in the gorge, from its beaches to its back roads, historic downtowns, hiking and biking trails, shopping, brewpubs and wineries, rural inns, historic sites and museums. Appendices cover festivals, along with gorge outfitters, guides, lessons, rentals and excursions.

Columbia Gorge Getaways: 12 Weekend Adventures, from Towns to Trails

Travel

Towns & Trails

Portland Stair Walks describes in detail 18 pleasant walks and biking adventures, routes to explore public stairs, paths not mapped by Google Earth, pedestrian bridges and waterway. The adventures are varied in size, from a short 2 miles to about 17 miles.A 5x7 inch book is easy to take along.

Portland Stair Walks (Travel)

Microcosm Publishing

Walking with Ramona explores the streets, schools, characters, and neighborhoods of author Beverly Cleary’s Portland. With this charming guidebook, readers can walk the very sidewalks Beverly walked and climb the very school steps that Beverly climbed. You'll see the grocery parking lot where Ramona got stuck in the mud, the park lawn where Henry Huggins hunted nightcrawlers, and the real Portland street that became Klickitat Street, their fictional home. Beverly Cleary’s Portland was much different than the Portlandia of today. Walking with Ramona brings to life what that 1920s and 1930s Portland was like for the girl from Yamhill” who went on to become an internationally beloved children's book author. Characters like Ramona and Beezus, Henry and Ribsy, and Ellen and Austine come to life on this hour-long walking route through the Northeast Portland neighborhood where Beverly grew up. An almost 3-mile walk or bike ride around Northeast Portland, plus other Oregon destinations.

Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland (People's Guide)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Walking with RAMONA Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland

United States

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