Portland Gardens, Portland, Oregon
Portland Rose Garden
850 S.W. Rose Garden Way
Portland
,
Oregon
97205
Tel: 503 227 7033
Portland Japanese Garden
611 S.W. Kingston Avenue
Portland
,
Oregon
97205
Tel: 503 223 1321
Lan Su Chinese Garden
239 N.W. Everett Street
Portland
,
Oregon
97209
Tel: 503 228 8131
Concierge.com's insider take:
With 37,000 acres of metro-area green space, the City of Roses offers an embarrassment of riches when it comes to natural diversions. Start in Washington Park, which is home to the Portland Rose Garden, the oldest continuously operating rose garden in the country, with more than 8,000 plants. The park is also home to the Japanese Garden: five and a half peaceful acres of artfully laid paths winding past waterfalls, rock gardens, and pagodas with views of the skyline and Mount Hood. Across town, the Ming Dynasty–style Lan Su Chinese Garden, an oasis surrounded by buildings, has a tea house overlooking Zither Lake's bridges and colonnades.—Colleen Clark