Dates: Daily
Departures: 9:00am until 5:30pm
Pricing: $88 per person (please note: additional discount coupons do not apply with this already discounted offer)
Combine a tour of Portland, the City of Roses, with a short trip out to the Columbia Gorge National Scenic area for a few highlights of spectacular waterfalls and vistas. This combination tour includes the following:
The New Portland City Tour
We don’t just show you the highlights of downtown, we introduce you to the City of Portland. The only city tour in Portland that offers a well-balanced overview of both downtown and surrounding area’s history, culture and current events. Travel through the various parts of the city and visit all the must-see attractions, then we take you on another adventure throughout the various parts of the city neighborhoods, historical buildings, businesses and sights.
Our tour has expanded to offer some information on the representation of cultural diversity in the state of Oregon. Throughout the year America’s Hub World Tours will continue to expand to include African American, Asian, Japanese, Chinese, German, French, Italian, Hispanic and more information about cultural groups and their importance in the state of Oregon. Take advantage of all the city has to offer on the Portland City Tour! The only tour that gives you a well rounded view of Portland and the surrounding area.
Itinerary Summary
On our acclaimed Portland City Tour. Some of the many attractions may include:
1. Downtown Portland: 
Enjoy the sites of Pioneer Square and learn about the great diversity found in Portland’s downtown area, the historical importance it has played in the state’s history and the fast-growing culture that exists in the City of Portland. Learn about the final resting place of many prominent and notable citizens of Oregon, including many governors and United State Senators and other notable burials in the City of Portland. Here’s just a few you may hear about on our city tour.
a. Lola Baldwin, (1860–1957) first female police officer in the United States
b. Simon Benson, (1852–1942) Portland businessman and philanthropist
c. Abigail Scott Duniway, (1834–1915) women’s rights pioneer
d. Dorothy McCullough Lee, (1902–1981) first female mayor of Portland
e. Henry Pittock, (1836–1919) publisher The Oregonian newspaper
f. Isaac W. Smith, (1826–1897) Pioneer of Portland’s water system
g. Henry Weinhard, (1830–1904) brewer and Portland businessman
2. Portland Food Carts: Whether your tastes run from Greek gyros, Vietnamese Pho, Indian curries, Polish sausages, to Moroccan tagines, you can whet your appetite at Portland Food Carts all over town.
3. Pittock Mansion: 
A French Renaissance Chateau listed on the national registry of historic places. Enjoy the spectacular views from the grounds of the Pittock Mansion.
4. Portland International Rose Gardens: 
With our 550 different varieties of Roses and the lush and beautiful Washington Park featuring some of the most amazing cascade mountain views around.
5. Portland Center Backstage Tour: 
A perfect opportunity for your organization, business or club to learn about what it takes to put together a professional theater production. Let theater professionals take your group on a virtual tour through there state-of-the-art facility, giving you an in-depth look at how we create costumes, sets and new worlds onstage. Learn facts about professional actors, the rehearsal timeline, costume design, creating wigs, props, building sets and other professional theater “fun” facts. The group would see the backstage area for both theaters in the building, dressing rooms, green rooms and the costume shop.
7. Portland Neighborhoods: 
Some of the most popular neighborhoods may includes Nob Hill, The Pearl District, North Mississippi, Alberta and North Portland, Vista Hills and Council Crest.
Lunch Stop: Our tour guide will may several recommendations for you to choose from.
Next: Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls
The great ice age Lake Missoula Flood left scars literally from Montana to the Pacific Ocean. Join us as we explore the waterfalls, photographs, and our tour guides share research uncovering the effects of the Lake Missoula Flood in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington. This catastrophic flood propelled over 500 cubic miles of water, ice, rock and mud across eastern Washington, further cut the Columbia River Gorge, covered the Willamette Valley with up to 400 feet of water and left gravel bars mile wide and hundreds of feet high. In addition, our guides will show you many of the signs still visible today.
We start along the Historic Columbia River Highway National Scenic Byway. Some of the waterfalls make include; visiting Portland Women’s Forum, Crown Point Vista House, Latourell Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Multnomah Falls, Horse Tail Falls and Bonneville Dam.
Crown Point Vista House: 
Best known of the scenic lookouts along the Historic Columbia River Highway, providing a panoramic view of the Columbia River. The Crown Point Vista House was built in 1916 and refurbished in 2005, with its beautiful marble interior and brass fixtures completely remodeled.
Latourell Falls: 
Plunge 249 feet (76 m) over a massive wall of columnar basalt – some of the best formations in the Pacific Northwest – before cascading hastily towards the Columbia River. This waterfall is usually most recognized for the large patch of bright yellow lichen adorning the cliff face to the right of the falls, and this characteristic has led many famous photographers to give this location their treatment. And if you stand in just the right place, and look way up, behind the falls you see another falls!
Bridal Veil Falls: 
A winding footpath and another bridge lead to a vantage point for the falls. The falls consists of two cascades in quick succession along angling rock faces, so when there is good water flow, the falls looks very much like its bridal veil namesake. This waterfall is one of the best kept secrets in the Columbia River Gorge. People read about, but rarely get a chance to view the actual waterfall.
Wahkeena Falls: http://www.americashubworldtours.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Wahkeena-Falls-e1330896650717.jpg
Most beautiful in the Yakima language sometimes spelled Wah-kee-na, tumbles 242 feet in a cascading type of falls with 3 plunging falls. On up behind this falls is a cascade which flows a long way. . . and then you come to Fairy Falls.
Multnomah Falls: 
The second highest year-round waterfall in the United States. Nearly two million visitors a year come to see this ancient waterfall, making it Oregon’s number one public destination. Fed by underground springs from Larch Mountain, the flow over the falls varies but is highest during winter and spring.
Horse Tail Falls:
Bonneville Dam: 
In 1986, the Bonneville Lock and Dam project was placed on the National Register of Historic Places; it was later elevated to National Historic Landmark status. Several visitor centers provide information on fish migration and the operation of the powerhouse and navigation lock.
Return to Portland:
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