Your Pacific Northwest Pictures
Your Pacific Northwest Pictures
Your Pacific Northwest Pictures
See photos of the Pacific Northwest submitted to National Geographic by users like you.
World of Wonder Quiz, Part 1
World of Wonder Quiz, Part 1
World of Wonder Quiz, Part 1
Explore the curious world of short-lived things with this quiz from Traveler magazine.
Biking Portland’s Icons
Biking Portland’s Icons
Biking Portland’s Icons
“The coffee isn’t delicious because of anything I do.” Liam Kenna runs a small tasting station that freckles a stark warehouse space with glazed concrete floors, an artful exhibit of historic coffeemaking tools, and a table of beakers to measure coffee pours with lablike precision. “My job as a barista is just not to mess…
Going West
Going West
Going West
“People came west to get away from the government. Now they have no place else to go, so they think of new ways of doing things.” That’s Bud Clark, the colorful ex-mayor of Portland, Oregon, talking to me recently over a Reuben sandwich at his tavern, the Goose Hollow Inn. When you go west, in…
Ariel’s Portland (Oregon)
Ariel’s Portland (Oregon)
Ariel’s Portland (Oregon)
Ariel Bloomer was born and raised in Portland but took a hiatus from Stumptown to go college and teach English in Bulgaria. “The travel bug comes as a bit of a curse,” she says. “I’m privileged and doomed to travel around the world knowing the best place I can imagine lies in my wake.” There are certainly worse problems to have. Now Ariel’s happily back in her old stomping grounds, and celebrating her homecoming with a tribute to all things Portland.
Streetcars, Desired
Streetcars, Desired
Streetcars, Desired
Streetcars are sometimes typecast as old-fashioned conveyances, but they’re making encore appearances in cities around the world.
Wrangling Under the Big Sky
Wrangling Under the Big Sky
Wrangling Under the Big Sky
Wanda Wilcox is the real deal. She has an elk-tooth wedding ring, rides bulls, and eats their, ahem, manhood (which she claims is tasty). She’s the fifth generation of homesteaders who cut a trail from Oregon to “Big Sky” country.
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