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Nickname: The Beaver State

Motto: Alis volat propriis - English: She flies with her own wings

The "Oregon Trail" is the longest trail in the USA, along which settlers moved westwards in the past - it was over 3,000 meters long. km and it took up to six months to cover it. Haystack Rock, a monolith located on Cannon Beach, is 72 meters high and is one of the three largest coastal monoliths in the world.

 

Cape Creek Bridge near Florence - Portland, Oregon

Cape Creek Bridge - opened in 1932, it was designed by noted bridge engineer Conde McCullough. The bridge resembles a Roman aqueduct, with a single parabolic arch that spans half its length.

 

Portland view - Portland, Oregon

Tax-free - Oregon is one of only five states (next to New Hampshire, Montana, Delaware, and Alaska) where the price you see on the product is what you pay at the checkout. 

Portland, like few other cities in the world, is crazy about growing vegetables and fruit on its own. There are more than 50 public gardens in the city, and in front of houses in some neighborhoods, instead of a neatly trimmed lawn, you can see flower beds full of edible plants - an unusual sight for the US.

 

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Virtually every single beer you've ever enjoyed can be broken into one of two main types: ale or lager. The determining factor between the two? Yeast.   

There are a wide variety of flavors that ale yeasts provide to beer—spanning mango to pineapple, banana, clove, vanilla, and more. Lager yeasts, on the other hand, tend to create clean, crisp flavors that showcase beer’s other main ingredients: grains and hops.

Lagers are the most widely drank beers in the world, though they are younger historically than their ale counterparts. 

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Going strong since the '80s, Portland’s dynamic craft beer scene justifies the city’s nickname: “Beervana.”

Portland is home to more than 75 breweries and counting — more than any other city on earth. Since the early 1980s, Portland brewers have been hard at work, pioneering the craft beer movement with fresh ingredients like Willamette Valley hops and barley and Bull Run water.    

Along with bustling brewpubs and a calendar overflowing with beer-themed events, their innovative brews help the city to continually earn its “Beervana” nickname.

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Ecola Park Road in the north end of Cannon Beach winds through the old-growth rainforest before emerging at one of the Oregon Coast’s most famous views, overlooking numerous rock formations and the capes and headlands miles to the south.   

Paved ­walking trails provide vantage points for panoramic views including the historic Tillamook Rock Lighthouse lying just offshore on a lone rock in the Pacific. 

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Portland was a bustling, growing city in 1889, and the wife of Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock initiated an invitation to her friends to view her roses in their garden. 

The city became captivated by this cultural, woody perennial flower. Then in 1905, Portland celebrated the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The Portland Rose Society decided to promote 20 miles of rose-covered streets in preparation for the exhibition. After the Centennial Exposition the name, “City of Roses“ caught on and even the mayor wanted to continue to honor that by launching the first ‘festival of roses’ in 1907.

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Mount Hood is one of the most conquered peaks in North America, the tip of which is covered by glaciers. The South Side Route begins near the Timberline Lodge Hotel, which was the location of the famous 1980 film "The Shining". 

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The town was founded in 1844 and obtained city rights in 1851.
Characteristic places: US Bancorp Tower, Moda Center (formerly known as Rose Garden Arena), Mill Ends Park.