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Smith Rock State Park and the Crooked River Mount Hood from Mirror Lake Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum Wizard Island in Crater Lake. The Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon has a variety of nearby tourist attractions which are suitable for a day trip from the Portland area, in addition to about 80 within the metropolitan area itself (see Tourism in Portland, Oregon).
In 2023, Portland area tourism generated $5.4 billion in direct spending [3] from 12.1 million overnight person-trips. [4] That visitor spending is estimated to have supported 34,400 jobs, generating $1.7 billion in employment earnings.
The White Stag Sign at night in 2010, with a simulated "red nose" (of neon) in imitation of the character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The day when a "red nose" is placed on the White Stag sign as an imitation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has become known as "Nose Day" and "is how most Portlanders know that the Christmas season has arrived", according to The Oregonian.
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The Portland Touch Rugby team is a member of the US Federation of International Touch (USFIT)and has won the national championship several times, most recently in 2007 (Portland, Oregon), 2008 (Houston), and 2009 (Portland, Oregon). The team, the Portland Hunters, [12] is home to a number of key members of the US National Touch team who have ...
The Portland Expo Center, officially the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, is a convention center located in the Kenton neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in the early 1920s as a livestock exhibition and auction facility, the center now hosts over 100 events a year, including green consumer shows, trade shows ...
Portland Saturday Market's longtime former location, underneath the Burnside Bridge, in use 1976–2009. The market was founded in 1974 by craftspeople Sheri Teasdale and Andrea Scharf, who modeled it after the Saturday Market in Eugene, Oregon. [4]