Forest Park vs Portland Art Museum
Both are recommended by professional travelers. Overall, Forest Park is preferred by most reviewers compared to Portland Art Museum. Forest Park comes in at #2 in Portland with accolades from 8 sources like Not For Tourists, Michelin Guide and Frommer's.
Forest Park
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NW 29 & Upshur to Newberry Road, Portland, OR 97210
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Fodor's
"One of the nation's largest urban wildernesses (5,000 acres), this city-owned, car-free park, has more than 50 species of birds and mammals and more than 70 miles of trails."
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Concierge
"At 5,000 acres, it's the country's largest urban wilderness."
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Not many cities have 5100 acres of temperature rainforest within their limits, but then not many cities are like Portland."
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Not For Tourists
"Aptly named park. Great for picnics, sasquatch hunting."
Condé Nast Traveler
"New Yorkers have Central Park, and Portlanders have Forest Park, a sprawling 5,100-acre wilderness that’s a short walk from the shops and restaurants of Northwest 23rd Street."
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Portland Art Museum
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1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
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Fodor's
"The treasures at the Pacific Northwest's oldest arts facility span 35 centuries of Asian, European, and American art."
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Concierge
"The permanent collection includes a range of contemporary, Native American, and European art."
Frommer's
"This is the oldest art museum in the Northwest, and it has an excellent collection of modern and contemporary art."
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Travel + Leisure
"Since the construction in 2005 of a new wing, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest art museum has really become two facilities in one."
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"Now one of the 25 largest museums in the United States, the Portland Art Museum has a collection of more than 32,000 works of art from American Indian artifacts to Monet’s Waterlilies."
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