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Portland Aerial Tram

(Christine Dong)
By WW Contributor

3303 SW Bond Ave.

Travel between Marquam Hill and the South Waterfront provides 3,300 feet of awe-inspiring views of the Portland cityscape, especially at sunrise and sunset. Fare is $4.90 round trip—or free one way down to the South Waterfront station, which is inexplicably home to a village of garden gnomes. Once a subject of major public controversy for its massive cost overruns, the Tram is now considered a quintessentially Portland experience.

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