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   Mill Ends Park

   A circle of earth sixty centimetres across in the middle of Naito Parkway, holding one tree, created in 1948 and recognised as the smallest park in the world. It has hosted, by report, snail races and a leprechaun colony.

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   Portland Art Museum

   The oldest art museum on the west coast, founded in 1892, holding over 42,000 works with strengths in Native American art, Northwest art and English silver. Its 1930s Pietro Belluschi building is on the South Park Blocks.

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   Fort Vancouver

   A Hudson's Bay Company fur post founded in 1825 on the north bank of the Columbia, and the centre of British authority in the Oregon Country until the 1846 boundary treaty put it in American territory. Its stockade and buildings have been reconstructed on the excavated footprint.

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   Portland Japanese Garden

   A garden of 5.1 hectares in Washington Park, opened in 1967 to a design by Professor Takuma Tono of Tokyo, with five garden styles, a tea house and a cultural village. It is widely reckoned the finest Japanese garden outside Japan.

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   International Rose Test Garden

   A rose garden in Washington Park established in 1917, the oldest continuously operating public rose test garden in the United States, with over 10,000 bushes of about 650 varieties. New cultivars are grown here to see whether they survive the Oregon climate.

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   Forest Park

   A municipal forest of more than two thousand hectares in the hills west of downtown Portland, among the largest inside an American city. The Wildwood Trail runs nearly fifty kilometres through it without leaving the trees.

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   Portland Oregon Temple

   A Latter-day Saints temple at Lake Oswego south of Portland, dedicated in 1989, with six white spires rising out of the trees beside the interstate. Only members in good standing enter beyond the lobby.

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   Hoyt Arboretum

   An arboretum of 76 hectares in Washington Park, planted from 1928 with about 2,300 species from around the world, including one of the largest conifer collections in the country. Twenty kilometres of trail run through it and connect to Forest Park.

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   Dignity Village

   A city-recognised encampment of about sixty homeless residents, which began as a tent protest in 2000 and was given a site on city land in 2001. Residents elect their own council and set their own rules, and it has been studied as a model elsewhere.

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    Leach Botanical Garden

    A 6.5-hectare botanical garden in outer southeast Portland, built around the house and grounds of Lilla and John Leach, who collected plants on horseback expeditions through Oregon in the 1920s and 1930s. Native and rock garden species fill the creek ravine.

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   Pittock Mansion

   A French Renaissance château of 1914 in the West Hills, built for Henry Pittock, the publisher of the Oregonian, with a Turkish smoking room and central vacuum system. It was to be demolished after storm damage in 1962 and was bought by the city instead; the terrace has the classic Mount Hood view.

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   Oaks Amusement Park

   An amusement park on the Willamette opened in May 1905, one of the oldest continuously operating in the country, built by a streetcar company to give people a reason to ride out of town. Its 1905 roller-skating rink still has a Wurlitzer pipe organ playing for skaters.

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   Downtown Portland

   The business district on the west bank of the Willamette, bounded by Interstate 405 and running from Burnside Street down past Portland State University. Its blocks are unusually small, 200 feet square with streets only 64 feet wide, which is why the centre walks so easily.

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   Pioneer Courthouse Square

   A public square occupying a full downtown block, opened in 1984 on the site of a demolished hotel, and known as Portland's living room. Its brick paving carries the names of about 65,000 people who bought a brick to pay for it.

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   Hayden Island

   An island in the Columbia between Portland and Vancouver, Washington, crossed by the interstate bridge. Floating home moorages line the channel on its south side and much of the rest is retail and marina.

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   Washington Park

   More than 458 acres of steep wooded hillside above the west side, taking in the Oregon Zoo, the 153-acre Hoyt Arboretum, the International Rose Test Garden and the Japanese Garden. The ground climbs from 200 feet at Burnside Street to 870 feet at its crest.

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   Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

   A national historic site covering the reconstructed Hudson's Bay fur post, Officers Row, and Pearson Field — one of the oldest operating airfields in the United States. It spans both Washington and Oregon, which few park units do.

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   Lan Su Chinese Garden

   A classical Suzhou-style garden built in 2000 by artisans from Portland's sister city Suzhou, using Chinese materials and no power tools. A pond, covered walkways and pavilions are packed into one city block in Chinatown.

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   St. Mary's Cathedral

   The Catholic cathedral of Portland, built in 1885 in Gothic Revival and the mother church of the oldest archdiocese in the western United States, established in 1846. It stands in the Northwest district.

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    Congregation Beth Israel

    A Reform synagogue at 1931 NW Flanders Street, whose congregation dates from 1858 and whose Byzantine Revival building of 1928 has a dome twenty-five metres high. It is a National Historic Landmark and one of the oldest Jewish congregations west of the Mississippi.

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