Bike Around Portland: Tour of city with Chinese Garden admission

Itinerary
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Pass By: 3345 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214-5046

After fitting for a bike and helmet at Around Portland Tours' shop, we'll head out to the streets of Portland for a slow-paced ride through the inner Southeast Portland neighborhoods. We'll ride into the Hawthorne District, past one of the original food cart pods, and one of the newest.

Stop At: Ladd's Addition, Between Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and Division Street from 12th to 20th avenues, Portland, OR 97214

After taking off from the shop, we'll ride into Ladd's Addition, a pretty neighborhood designed in a labyrinth style, and visit one of the many rose gardens there.

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Bullseye Projects Gallery, 3722 SE 21st Ave, Portland, OR 97202-2913

The inner industrial area is full of amazing art spaces, from the corporate to the decidedly anarchic. We'll ride past the 2020 Collective, a bike-focused art studio of metalworkers and glass artists, and check out the Bullseye Glass kilns.

Pass By: The Solterra Building, 959 SE Division St #130, Portland, OR 97214, USA

We'll ride the bike path along the Orange line of the MAX light rail, which has a variety of beautiful art pieces, from word play along concrete barriers and in the sidewalks, to the gorgeous mural by Irish street artist Fin DAC -- a mural that must be seen to be fully appreciated!

Stop At: Portland Opera, 211 SE Caruthers St, Portland, OR 97214, USA

Around the Portland Opera building are a number of pieces of bike infrastructure and physical art. We'll stop and test one of our favorites.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Tilikum Crossing, Crosses the Willamette River, Portland, OR 97201

Our favorite bridge to ride across is the Tilikum Crossing, one of the most unusual bridges in a city focused around its Willamette River crossings! We'll take the slow route onto the bridge, get counted by the device that monitors the number of cyclists to cross each day and each year, and stop for photos and some history on Portland's newest bridge, and the only one like it in the world.

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Portland Aerial Tram, Marquam Hill Campus at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

From the Tilikum Crossing we'll head to the South Waterfront neighborhood, past the docking for the Aerial Tram, Portland's newest mode of transportation, and learn why we have this beautiful bullet-shaped transport -- and how much, exactly, it cost us.

Stop At: Elizabeth Caruthers Park, 3508 SW Moody Ave, Portland, OR 97239-4517

Visit one of Portland's many parks on top of parking garages, and learn the feminist history of this important figure in U.S. property law.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Blue Star, Portland, OR

Do we love doughnuts? It depends what sort you're describing. We'll stop in at Blue Star, one of the more culinary-inspired doughnut shops in the city, and sample (if desired).

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: South Waterfront Greenway, 0848 SW Curry St, Portland, OR 97239, USA

One of our favorite hidden river spaces, the South Waterfront Greenway is one of the many links in the city's amazing river access.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Poet's Beach, South Waterfront Park, Portland, OR

We could wax eloquent about Poet's Beach forever! This little sandy beach was created by the Human Access Project, a program that seeks to connect us more tangibly to the river, so we take better care of it. What’s more, the poetry along the beach, written by local students, captures our hearts and minds.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Riverplace, 1875 SW River Dr, Portland, OR 97201, USA

We'll head down the Willamette River, passing one of the most interesting housing and retail developments from the 1980s, and learn how this project attempted to change the course of urban design.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Front Avenue, Portland, OR 97205

We'll ride through the Tom McCall Waterfront Park, and learn how what it *used* to be changed Portland in a big way; and how our reluctantly hippie governor in the early 1970s changed it back.

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Hawthorne Bridge, Main to Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, Portland, OR 97204

We'll ride under the Hawthorne Bridge, and learn why this iconic structure might go up and down, with no big ship underneath it.

Pass By: Portland Saturday Market, 108 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209-4008

We'll ride past the space where the longest continuously running open-air craft festival is held, Saturdays and Sundays, March through Christmas Eve -- if the festival is on, we'll walk our bikes through.

Stop At: Japanese American Historical Plaza, Southwest Front Avenue and Davis Street, Portland, OR 97204

No tour of inner NW Portland is complete without a visit to this monument to the Japanese residents of this neighborhood, known for 50 years as "Nihonmachi," or Japantown, and their internment during World War II -- the nearly 4,000 residents never returned to this neighborhood.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett St, Portland, OR 97209-3957

The Lan Su Garden, one of the most authentic Suzhou gardens in the world, was a gift from our sister city in China. Since 2000, the garden has amazed and inspired visitors with its colorful plantings, its variety of fragrant and textural flowers, and its carefully-laid design. We'll walk through the garden and learn what sets it apart, both from other styles of Asian gardens, and also from the gardens of its home country.

Duration: 30 minutes