Southeast Portland is one of the sextants of
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, ...
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Boundaries and features
Southeast Portland stretches from the warehouses along the
Willamette River
The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward ...
through historic
Ladd's Addition to the
Hawthorne and
Belmont districts out to
Gresham. Not far from Hawthorne is
Reed College
Reed College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, E ...
, whose campus expands from Woodstock Boulevard to Steele Street, and from 28th to 39th Avenues.
Other neighborhoods in Southeast Portland include
Brentwood-Darlington,
Foster-Powell, and
Mt. Scott-Arleta.
Southeast Portland also features
Mt. Tabor, a
cinder cone volcano that has become one of Portland's more scenic and popular parks.
Peacock Lane is a street known locally for lavish Christmas decorations and displays.
History
Southeast Portland has blue-collar roots and has evolved to encompass a wide mix of backgrounds. The Hawthorne district in particular is known for its hippie/radical crowd and small subculturally oriented shops.
Between the 1920s and the 1960s, Southeast was home to
Lambert Gardens
Lambert Gardens was a botanical garden of over in the Reed neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, USA. It opened in 1930 and closed in 1968 and had a total estimated visitor count of 2,000,000, most of them believed to be out-of-towners.
History
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Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon is divided into six sections: North Portland, Northeast Portland, Northwest Portland, South Portland, Southeast Portland, and Southwest Portland. There are 95 officially recognized neighborhoods, each of which is represen ...
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