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Portland is home to one of the largest municipal parks in the United States, Forest Park, as well as the world's smallest park—at 61 centimetres (24 in) in diameter—Mill Ends Park. The development of Portland's park system was largely guided by the 1903 Olmsted Portland park plan. There are at least 279 parks and natural areas in Portland.
In 1993, the East Portland Traction Company began running an excursion train known as Samtrak (named after the owner as well as a play on Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company) from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) to Portland's Sellwood neighborhood. The train itself was modest with a small General Electric 45-ton ...
Its first series, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, was first broadcast on BBC One on 6 June 2021 and concluded on 20 June 2021. [3] Its second series, starring Jodie Whittaker , Tamara Lawrance and Bella Ramsey , was broadcast, also on BBC One, on 29 October 2023 and concluded on 12 November 2023.
The Molalla Pioneer is a weekly paper published each day by Pamplin Media Group as a community newspaper for the Portland Tribune. [18] Molalla is also served by radio and TV broadcasting stations from Portland, and residents have access to cable and satellite systems.
In 2010, the city hired a full-time ranger assigned to Forest Park. [49] [50] In 2021 and 2022, the city took additional steps to handle wildfire risk in the park, with Portland Fire & Rescue requesting additional budget to plan for mitigation, [51] and the city designating the park plus surrounding areas a high-risk hazard zone where homeless ...
Steam Train December 9, 2008 A journey with the Union Pacific 844 steam locomotive: Union Pacific 844: 6 Overnight Traveler December 16, 2008 Riding Amtrak's Empire Builder train from Chicago to Seattle: Empire Builder: 7 Circus Train December 23, 2008 The circus train from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey: Ringling Bros. and Barnum ...
Providence Park, a 25,218, seat open-air stadium which is the home of the Timbers, is the largest non-auto sports venue in Portland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Moda Center, formerly the Rose Garden, is second with 19,980 seats for basketball games and slightly less for hockey match-ups. [ 3 ]
For a road course race, it was the all-time closest finish in CART series history, as well as the closest three-car finish in series history. In 1999 and 2000, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ran a race at Portland International Raceway. The race was added after the demise of the ½-mile Portland Speedway that hosted races early in the series.