35 Portland tourist attractions, ranked from worst to best
If you want to come to Portland and maximize your time as a tourist, you need to know which attractions are the absolute best and which are the worst. Luckily for you, we have ranked 35 of the possible things you could do during your visit. For this guide, we limited our destinations to inside Portland city limits (sorry, Multnomah Falls).
We have ranked each activity from 1 to 5 in the following ways:
Fun: 5 being fun for everyone, 1 being a fun that appeals to only a few.
Cost: 5 being free, 4 being $10 or less, 3 being $10.01 to $20, 2 being $20.01 to $30, 1 being $30.01 to $40 and 0 being over $40
Access: 5 being easy to get to on public transit, 1 being you will probably want to take a Lyft
Unique to Portland: 1 to 5, 5 being something you would never experience anywhere else and 1 being something you would find in any large American city.
Where there were ties, and there were many, we used our hearts and minds to determine the ranking.
Note: if you live in the Portland area and want to live like a tourist, or if you have visitors coming to town, look into your library’s version of the cultural day pass, which gives library cardholders access to a variety of attractions for free. Some counties offer more than others, so check with your library to see what they offer.