City guide · Oregon · United States
Forest trails inside the city limits and the most dog-tolerant coffee shops in the US.
6 places5 categories6 neighbourhoods1 with an off-leash area
6 places, each checked against the venue's own information
Neighbourhoods covered: Alberta Arts, Forest Park, St. Johns, Buckman, Downtown, Central Eastside, Portland.
A long-running brunch cafe on NE Alberta with a corrugated-metal front and a covered, heated garden patio. Biscuits and gravy, potato cakes, scrambles and mimosas, and it keeps a dog menu alongside the human one.
The thirty-mile Wildwood Trail is the spine of Forest Park, the largest urban forest in the United States and a designated National Recreation Trail. It runs from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Park north through Douglas fir, big-leaf maple and creek crossings, linking more than eighty miles of trail.
No photo yetAn eighteen-acre North Portland park whose centrepiece is a large, fully fenced off-leash dog area under mature trees. Outside the fence there are leashed walking trails, picnic tables and a disc golf course.
No photo yetPortland's original Lucky Labrador brewpub, in an old timbered warehouse on SE Hawthorne. It brews its own beer — Off Leash Pilsner among them — heated with solar water, and serves plain, cheap pub sandwiches and pizza to a bike-friendly crowd.
A Kimpton boutique hotel in a 1912 downtown building, one block from Pioneer Courthouse Square. Bold, eclectic rooms, a nightly complimentary wine reception and the ground-floor Red Star Tavern.
No photo yetAmerica's first dedicated gluten-free brewery (formerly Harvester Brewing), pouring award-winning naturally gluten-free ales, lagers and sours with gluten-free food from Salvi PDX. The pub is all ages and its outdoor seating is explicitly dog-friendly, so well-behaved pups can join you on the patio.
Leash rules, off-leash hours and whether dogs are allowed inside are set locally and change without notice. Each listing here says what the venue or the responsible authority publishes, and the listing page links to the page we checked, so you can confirm the current rule before you set out. Outside a signed off-leash area, keep the dog on a lead.
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Patio culture year-round, and a city that treats dogs as regulars.
Waterfront walks, off-leash beaches and hotels that hand out beds at check-in.
Trailheads twenty minutes from downtown and breweries with fenced yards.
The best off-leash beaches in the country, plus rooftop bars that allow leashed dogs.
Riverwalks, prairie fields and brunch counters that keep a bowl by the door.
America's hardest city to bring a dog to, and the most rewarding once you know which patios actually say yes.
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