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During your Portland vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
Museum of the Oregon Territory
This small museum houses collections of historic memorabilia and old photos from this area. There's the obligatory covered wagon, as well as a display of Native American petroglyphs. Your admission ticket to this museum will also get you into the Stevens Crawford House, 603 Sixth St., a foursquare-style home that is furnished with late-19th-century antiques and looks as if the family just stepped out.
End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
With its three Paul Bunyan-size wagons parked in the middle of Abernethy Green (the official end of the Oregon Trail), this interpretive center is impossible to miss. Inside the first of the giant wagons, you'll find an exhibit hall, hands-on area, and gift shop. After looking around this first wagon, you'll then be led through the next one by costumed interpreters who explain the difficulties of provisioning for the overland trek. The third wagon houses a multimedia presentation based on three Oregon Trail diaries.
Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
Nowhere do rhododendrons do better than in the cool, rainy Northwest, and nowhere in Portland is there a more impressive planting of rhodies than at Crystal Springs. Eight months out of the year this is a tranquil garden, with a waterfall, a lake, and ducks to feed. But when the rhododendrons and azaleas bloom from March to June, it becomes a spectacular mass of blazing color. The Rhododendron Show and Plant Sale is held here on Mother's Day weekend.
Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront
The Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront is ideally situated opposite Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Southwest Naito Parkway just one tenth mile from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and Portland Keller Auditorium and two miles from the Oregon Convention Center. This full-service hotel offers recently renovated deluxe accommodations featuring high speed Internet access and Marriott's luxurious new bedding package, business center, health club and indoor swimming pool, lobby lounge and ...
Residence Inn by Marriott Portland Downtown Lloyd Center
Residence Inn by Marriott is designed to make you feel at home for a day, a week, a month or more. Our suites give you fifty percent more space than most traditional hotel rooms. The Residence Inn Portland Downtown Lloyd Center is located one block from the retails shops of Lloyd Center and four tenths mile from the Oregon Convention Center. The light rail station with service throughout the downtown area is three blocks away. * All suites feature free high speed Internet access! Studios ...
Hotel Lucia
Nominated by Conde Nast Traveler magazine as one of the 80 best new hotels in the world. Portland's "hippest" boutique hotel. 127 guestrooms all individually appointed, with custom made pillow top mattresses, luxury linens, pillow menus, high speed wireless internet access, CD players, plush robes, private bar and Aveda bath ...
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