Travel & Outdoors

Seattleites Guide to PDX

Portland v. Seattle: A Tale of Two Food Towns

Our reputations may be neck and neck, but size matters.

02/01/2014 By Cassie Sawyer

Seattleites Guide to PDX

Portland Checklist: Top 10 Restaurants

We asked Portland Monthly restaurant critic Karen Brooks for her top restaurant recommendations for PDX visitors. Her advice? Leave downtown behind and head to the city's Southeast neighborhoods.

02/01/2014

Seattleites Guide to PDX

Instagrammable Portland

Where to find Portland's iconic signs, views, and artworks.

02/01/2014 Edited by Allison Williams

Seattleites Guide to PDX

Portland v. Seattle: An Architectural Tale of Emeralds and Roses

When it comes to architecture, the contrast couldn’t be more plain: The Emerald City likes the shiny new gems; Portland likes perennials.

02/01/2014 By Randy Gragg

Seattleites Guide to PDX

Portland Checklist: Top 10 Sights in Portland

The Rose City's can't miss destinations, plus: the city's nicknames explained.

02/01/2014 Edited by Allison Williams

Seattleites Guide to PDX

Fact-Checking Portland Stereotypes

Do they really put a bird on it? Yep—check out any boutique in town. But what about the other things Portlandia taught us? And how does it compare to the Emerald City?

02/01/2014 Edited by Allison Williams

Northwest Travel

Seattleites Guide to PDX

How to visit, enjoy, explore—and understand—Portland.

02/01/2014 Edited by Allison Williams

Get Out

Try This Trail: Hazel Wolf Wetlands

Don't worry, there aren't any wolves.

01/28/2014 By Craig Romano

Super Bowl Travel

5 Seattley Sites to Visit in NYC Before the Super Bowl

They call it the Big Apple, but the Emerald City represents.

01/27/2014 By Allison Williams

Northwest Travel

Seattleites Guide to Portland

How to visit, enjoy, explore—and understand—Portland.

01/23/2014

Seattle Attractions

The Museum of Flight is Cheap Until the Seahawks Lose

If you needed a reason to root for the hometown football team, here's a good one.

01/03/2014 By Allison Williams

Weekend Pass

The McMenamin Experience

Two Portland brothers turned an affection for pubs into a sprawling hospitality empire. Plus: our favorite McMenamin hotels.

01/02/2014 By Allison Williams

Northwest Travel Dispatch

Winter 2013 Travel News

What’s happening where, from Canada to Oregon to the end of the road.

12/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Travel

Skiing My Own Private Idaho

How to get a ski mountain all to yourself (without being Clint Eastwood).

12/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Get Out

Try This Trail: Heather Lake

When the snow starts falling, start here.

11/11/2013 By Craig Romano

Booze News

Sun Liquor Takes to the Skies

The Capitol Hill distillery recently started bottling for Alaska Airlines. Here’s how to make the most of the beverage cart and drink local 30,000 feet up.

11/01/2013 By Allecia Vermillion

Get Out

Try This Trail: Scatter Lake

Gold rush: Fall is larch time in the North Cascades.

10/21/2013 By Craig Romano

Contest

Seattle Met Pet Star Search 2014

See your pet in the pages of Seattle Met.

10/21/2013

Snow Sports

Ski Season's Already Here

Summer is really, truly over. The ski mountains are really open.

10/07/2013 By Allison Williams