This up-to-date city guide is the ideal companion to discover all sides of the currently hippest and most unusual city in the U.S. on your own:

• The most important sights and museums of the city as well as lesser-known attractions and neighborhoods presented in detail and evaluated.
• Fascinating insights into a versatile, environmentally conscious, and creative city.
• Varied city walks through hip neighborhoods.
• Experience suggestions for a stay of several days.
• Excursions into the surrounding countryside.
• Shopping tips in the hip neighborhoods, from the Portland Saturday Market to stores of creative artisans, unusual scene and vintage stores, or to Powell's, the largest bookstore in the world.
• Recommended places to eat and things to know about the local craft beer scene.