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areas to avoid in portland

corey4

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we will be staying in eugene OR for a few days then driving up the coast and staying in portland for 2 days. one of those days we will be going to mt st helens.

we have a list of hotels and i would like to know where to avoid.

if anyone has any points of interest, that would be appreciated as well.

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the hotels look to be near the intl airport, a few hotels are across the river in WA.

thank you.
 
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The blue parts, avoid the blue areas.
 
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Umm… Fellas, Portland is in O-re-gun, not Warshington. Same, but different. But same.

My general rule is to stay one hour outside any major metro area, and to never ever stay inside a beltway. The Dalles east of Portland is decent, but allow time if you have a night/early morning drive because the fog can be real bad off the Columbia River.

But Oregon can be fun in some ways, drink a bunch of beer and save up the empties until about 4am and watch for the homeless crowd to come dumpster diving. Then throw them down into the parking lot and enjoy the bum fights over them.
 
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Generally - PDX is a pretty safe area. Hotels around the airport are like hotels around an airport in many big metro areas - close to 'the track' and loaded with prosties and other assorted nefariousness, all based on room rate. I would not stay near the airport nor would I stay across the river.....the 'Couve can be just as sketch as PDX. If you want to stay East Side - I'd pick a better quality hotelier and wander down 205 to at least Clackamas / Sunnyside (better - West Linn). Stay off of 82nd / Sandy Blvd / most parts of Burnside at night / downtown - after the bars close can be a shit show, midnight - you should be fine. (Better and best quality boutique hotels are downtown). No one is gonna fuck w/ you during the day time unless you're in some really shitty neighborhoods nearest Lombard and I-5. The unhoused and addicted are generally harmless, it's bangers of all stripes. You'll know em when you see them, and generally they are not fuckin with people for sport.

ETA - if you have a block of time to kill - go to OMSI.
ETA - DO NOT ride the Max (light rail / bus system)
 
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I just used this to search my area. I call BS. Says Violent crime is super high here in my zip. That's impossible unless this has happened in the last year. Not one murder, no rapes report, no assaults, nothing. Now, property crime is up since we have the gov subsidies living quarters for folks (and it says that hasn't gone up).
 
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Places to avoid in portland?

"Portland"

Stay on the coast and just drive through. You ain't missin shit.
Mt. St. Helens is awesome.
Coast is Awesome
Portland is ASS (former Portland metro resident and its gone to hell). Burbs are ok (Go west up over the mountain towards forest grove, but its been 20 years)

Been a long time but if you can find a Mcmillan Bros Bar/Restaurant its good family eats and beer.
 
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DocRDS said:
Places to avoid in portland?

"Portland"

Stay on the coast and just drive through. You ain't missin shit.
Mt. St. Helens is awesome.
Coast is Awesome
Portland is ASS (former Portland metro resident and its gone to hell). Burbs are ok (Go west up over the mountain towards forest grove, but its been 20 years)

Been a long time but if you can find a Mcmillan Bros Bar/Restaurant its good family eats and beer.
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St. Helens is OK. Hood, Adams, and especially Rainier are all MUCH better.
 
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ARPC gun show is this weekend at the Linn county expo. Pretty decent, about an hour north of Eugene. (ARPC is a a very nice club, in case you all are checking out U of O for a kiddo. Great hours & open every day).

The Rose test garden up in Portland is a nice take May thru October or the Japanese Garden when Roses aren't in bloom.

Multnomah Falls. Everybody goes (busy)

Silver Falls State park 10 falls loop trail. (Lesser known jewel of a park). Between Eugene & Portland. Sorta.

Go to the coast as a day trip is a possible, if you have a want. Edited, sorry i missed you all were heading up the coast allready!

Never leave anything in your vehicle you expect to be there when you get back to it...
 
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Dude the first place to take out of town guests, Always gotta hit the Acropolis and over to Union Jacks for the T&A and brews . Plenty of places to get good food and micro brews all over the place. I dont run anywhere unless I carrying.
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You sir have unlocked some core memories. Man, I haven't thought of the Acropolis in years.

OP. Sounds like a vacation trip and not business since you are doing EUG, up the coast, and to PDX and St. Helens. Heading up the river thru the Gorge east of Portland is a hell of a nice drive. Weather might suck this time of year. March is always dicey. Mulanomah falls is always a great stop. Hike to the top of the falls. Then Scamania Lodge across the bridge of the Gods on the WA side is a great place to stay for a night, especially if you are travelling with your significant other. Its an easy day trip, drive east of Portland and gets you out of the shittier areas. I can concur with others advice that staying the hell off of 82nd is a good plan unless you like seeing the 2 legged wildlife doing dumb shit.
 
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Just go to or stay in the Gorge. One of the prettiest places in the US. Unless you're looking for specific food, Portland should be a skip (there are, however, good places to eat but you didn't mention anything about that). Portland, when compared to all other major metros, is relatively harmless. It gets a bad rep but there are still places to check out (OMSI, the Zoo, Forest Park, some breweries, etc).

My suggestion:
Stay at Skamania lodge (book a treehouse, highly recommended IMHO), Stevenson, Hood River, White Salmon, Cascade Locks, etc.

Hikes everywhere, waterfalls everywhere. You will not run out of views or things to do.

Want to stay close. Stay anywhere east starting at East Vancouver on the WA side and East of Troutdale on the OR side. If you NEED to stay in Portland Metro, I would suggest getting a nice hotel on the Vancouver Waterfront across the Columbia. Lots of food choices, trails, and close proximity to Fort Vancouver for sight seeing. Best thing, you can walk all of the Waterfront and Downtown Vancouver.

Want close but not too far? Stay at the old Camas Hotel in Camas, WA. Old, historic downtown and nice for the family. Visit Limitless if you wanna see a small gun shop.
 
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Stay outside of the city limits signs and you will be fine. The fact you are going to stay in Portland and let some junkie cuck you says all we need to know about you.

I fucking hate Chicago, even though I'd like to see a few museums in Chicago, I fucking refuse to give money to leftists and fuck them and their crooked voting. For years I went to Ohio every summer, I stopped in Wisconsin and fueled up, then drove straight thru Illinois without spending anything other than required tolls.

If you have no values, your plans are fine. I believe Macolm X was right. I do not spend my money in places or with people who hate me.
 
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corey4 said:
we will be staying in eugene OR for a few days then driving up the coast and staying in portland for 2 days. one of those days we will be going to mt st helens.

we have a list of hotels and i would like to know where to avoid.

if anyone has any points of interest, that would be appreciated as well.

edit to ad:
the hotels look to be near the intl airport, a few hotels are across the river in WA.

thank you.
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What month are you going? I ask because of snow. At mt st Helens we like the windy ridge side and then hike down to spirit lake. In the summer the water is great. But spring I doubt you'll be driving up to windy ridge. The trees that blew off the side of the mountain are still floating around feeding some monster trout. If the wind has blown the trees to your side of the lake and you want to swim just jump in and push the logs away.

Places to avoid. Fuck the downtown Portland train /trolley system where the tracks are directly on the road. It'll kill you
 
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thank you everyone for the suggestions and advice, much appreciated.

we'll be going in mid june so my sone can watch one of the track and field events at the university of oregon, not my choice, but whatever. we are flying into eugene and staying for a few days, then flying out of portland due to better flight schedules, so i figure we'll just do some things for a few days in that area as well.
 
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Umm… Fellas, Portland is in O-re-gun, not Warshington. Same, but different. But same.

My general rule is to stay one hour outside any major metro area, and to never ever stay inside a beltway. The Dalles east of Portland is decent, but allow time if you have a night/early morning drive because the fog can be real bad off the Columbia River.

But Oregon can be fun in some ways, drink a bunch of beer and save up the empties until about 4am and watch for the homeless crowd to come dumpster diving. Then throw them down into the parking lot and enjoy the bum fights over them.
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