Monster Course

Best of the City walking tour

From cast iron-fronted buildings to the grandly disastrous post-modern Portland Building, much of Portland, Oregon’s history can be told through the buildings and street layouts; most importantly, the prioritization of parks throughout the city center. How did the city’s early urban planners decide on their layouts? How do modern designers look at the past and plan for the future? Who are the people these streets are named for? What’s with all the roses? It’s not a dry history: full of back-room deals, early deaths and greed; and then there were the hippies! We’ll also discuss the modern rise of radical activists in Portland and how that is intimately connected to the city’s history going back more than a century. Two hours, two miles

Ropes Course

Experience cargo nets, obstacles, suspended platforms and rope bridges as you traverse through the forest and over the rapids. A ropes course is an activity that is built into the trees or made of utility poles that incorporates traversing obstacles of varying difficulty. Participants wear harnesses and are attached to safety lines throughout the activity.

Indoor Skydive Experience

Capture the adrenaline and adventure of skydiving in Hollywoods’ indoor skydiving facility, where a cutting-edge, vertical wind tunnel creates free-fall conditions. Learn the basics of safety and gear with your flight instructor then suit up for your ‘jump.’ Take two unforgettable 60-second ‘flights’ during this 1.25-hour experience and soar into the wind at speeds up to 175 mph (282 kph).