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Portland:
I don't know much about the street spots, so I will let Jayme or others fill that in.
Stuff to skate that I know:
Burnside park located under the Burnside bridge, one of the craziest places you will ever skate. Don't be a dick.
Wallride spot (not sure the name) right up the street from Burnside, recent photo of Seth McCullum doing a wall ride nose slide. On MLK.
Pier Park technically St Johns this is the newest city skate park. Home to a huge full pipe and some big bowls, also some granite hubba's on the street course,� it is alright but over run by bikes. Go early and hope no bikes tracks mud though the day before. Check out dreamlands website for photos.
Old Fred Myers way the fuck out on Burnside, chunked ledge, manny pads, fun double sided curb.
Down town has some stuff, push around and check it out, most good stuff is skate proofed, but some gems exist.
Skateshops:
Three shops to choose from
Cals- Long time shop, they know their stuff, cater to old school and long boards but carry a lot of new stuff as well
Cals Pharmacy - Shop for the younger "street" guys, super nice people working there. Lots of Nike's for people into that kind of stuff. Right next to the Department of Skateboarding Park which is a fun place to skate on a deary Portland winter day.
Shrunken Head- My shop of choice, run by two gnarly Burnside locals, super cool guys, small selection of stuff but what they have is good. They also threw some good skate jams over the summer. I highly recommend supporting these guys when you can. Also one of their friends "sperm" got hurt and they have been raising money to help him, check them out at www.myspace.com/shrukenhead.
They also put on video premiers from time to time.
Food
Veggie House on I believe it is 2th street in China town, all veggie with a 6.50$ all you can eat lunch buffet, even non veggie folks can't pass up a deal like that.
Voodoo Doughnuts I think it is on 1st Everything from vegan doughnuts to ones toped with bacon, open really late and worth checking out.
Anyway I will let Jayme fill in the blanks, he has lived here a lot longer then me.
And according to Dr. Newton everyone here is a crusty punk hippie heron addict so watch out.
alot of the street spots are spread out through the suburbs of portland.
zoo bomb: starts on the west edge of portland and takes you into the city.
you can ride the max up to the zoo and take a hill bomb that goes downhill for a good 3-5 miles.
aloha huber high school: pretty new spot, has a bunch of differen hieght ledges.
dust bowl: located down in the pearl district, some metal edge ledges and some banks.
whitiker school: a couple ledges that were made by some locals. located in northeast portland.
allen banks: some really good banks to launch out of, there is a prety fun pole jam going out of one of the banks. located in beaverton.
beaverton library: smooth manual benches.
pcc sylvania: rails, ledges, stairs and alot more, its really only skateable on sundays and holidays.
wild life reserve: lots of gaps and stairs, its the spot that rick mcrank ollies 4 stairs and a gap onto a skinny bench and then kickflips off over a gap and 4 stairs.
ross island half pipes: brent and beach own this spot.
there are plenty more spots, i will try and list some more tommorow
I'll fill in the downtown section of Portland a little more
SpotsKeller Fountain - roughish ground with some gaps and few manny pads. Lots of water at this spot so have someone on board duty.
Directors Park - newish park with rough granite ground. Couple of wooden benches to manual and a couple small stair sets.
Lincoln High - iconic Portland spot, decent red and white ledges, pretty good flatground and a couple stair sets. Never kicked out but you gotta go after 5 during the week and the high school kids have priority if they need to use the upper for practice or anything.
Esplanade - nice parking lot turned urban plaza right next to the running path on the east bank by OMSI and the fire dept. A couple ledges and manny pads, nice flatground. Almost always a session going on in the afternoon/evening. Never kicked out but watch out for the homeless and drug dealers. Never any problems that I've seen but it's a huge gathering spot.
Unitus Plaza - brick plaza with a marble 5 all the way around the building. ledges around the outside of the plaza but have a big drop on the other side of the fence
South Park blocks 9 stair - 9 stair with a big manny pad to the side of it that is curved. lots of homeless at this spot but seldom kicked out.
South Park blocks marble pad - small piece of granite that you can manual, more likely to get kicked out here than the 9 stair. 5 or so blocks south from the 9 stair
PSU - lots of stuff at PSU. Huge drop, couple 4 and 5 stairs in the PSU Urban Centre (right between MAX stops), PSU tennis courts or soccer field walkway for flatground days, campus security will come if called but don't seem to care otherwise
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z6iUvI64jcOo.kcWV4hs0YBwk&hl=enFoodFood carts galore. There's a couple different food cart areas, one by the max line headed north and one by the street car line headed south.
There are a lot of homeless/druggies in the downtown area.
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