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Portland in Bloom: Springtime Must-Visit spots.
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items Oregon is such a beautiful place to live especially in the springtime. here are highlights of a little of its beauty and places I like to visit.
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This place is absolutely beautiful and great for pictures.
Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
So many amazing green plants in this garden and it smelled amazing.
Lan Su Chinese Garden
This 12-acre Japanese garden in the scenic West Hills above downtown Portland includes a variety of garden styles, a tea house, meandering streams, peaceful walkways and views of Mount Hood.
Portland Japanese Garden
The Oregon zoo is such a fun place to take the kids and they get to enjoy the fresh air while doing it.
Oregon Zoo
Seeing this every year in person is breathtaking.
Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
Named for the purple camas flower, in mid-to-late April, the grassy plateaus and rocky outcroppings here are awash with the color of blooming camas, large-flowered collinsia, and rosy plectritis.
Places We Protect: Camassia Natural Area
Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park is a 36.59-acre park located in downtown Portland, Oregon, along the Willamette River. If you stroll through downtown Waterfront Park in late March through early April the breathtaking sight of 100 Akebono cherry t...
Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Portland Rose Festival features multiple parades, waterfront carnival rides, concerts, races, fireworks and plenty of roses.
Portland Rose Festival
One of the region’s earliest blooming native flowers, trilliums area common site in the Pacific Northwest forests. These small, white flowers are abundant in Portland’s only state park, Tryon Creek. So abundant, in fact, that the park hosts an annual...
Tryon Creek State Natural Area
Trilliums are also found blooming along many trails in Northwest Portland’s Forest Park, which sprawls over more than 5,000 wooded acres (2,023 hectares) and boasts 70 miles (113 km) of paths filled with fascinating flora and fauna.
Forest Park
From Forest Park, follow the Beech Trail to Hoyt Arboretum in Washington Park. Home to more than 2,000 species of shrubs and trees, Hoyt has plenty to offer all year-round. Spring highlights include bell-shaped Oregon plum flowers, magnolias, bloomin...
Hoyt Arboretum, a living museum of trees in Portland
Opened in 1909, this formal French garden was the city’s first public rose garden. The verdant park is home to an iconic fountain, a gazebo, sports fields and a public pool.
Peninsula Park Rose Garden
Founded in 1917, the oldest official continuously operated public rose test garden in the U.S. features over 10,000 rose bushes and views of downtown. Free guided tours are offered in the summer.
Washington Park - International Rose Test Garden
Cooper Mountain Nature Park Cooper Mountain Nature Park Overlooking the Tualatin River Valley, the 230-acre Cooper Mountain Nature Park offers visitors 3 1/2 miles of trails (with varying levels of difficulty) that traverse the park and pass through ...
Cooper Mountain Nature Park | Parks & Trails | THPRD
This absolutely beautiful park has a playground, walk trail, benches, a duck pond, and so many beautiful trees. It really is a spectacular park.
Laurelhurst Park
This is a beginner friendly trail with beautiful scenery. There are also tons of cute dogs to see along the trail.
Powell Butte Nature Park
This viewpoint is amazing and the road to get there takes you to some amazing waterfalls.
Vista House: Home
If you've grown up in Portland you've been to oaks park.
Oaks Amusement Park
Being born and raised in such an amazing state has allowed me to see so many sights and beautiful views.
Spring in Portland | The Official Guide to Portland
I love how Portland is surrounded by so many different things. The mountains, the beaches, the waterfalls, you name it and they are all within a short drive.
Spring in Portland | The Official Guide to Portland
