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Oregon Bicycle Resources

Portland bicycle lane and green bike box indicating a dangerous intersection.

City of Portland

City of Portland Guided Bicycle Rides

To help folks explore fun routes between different parts of town in a fun group ride.

This year they have fun events including bicycle mechanic skills and a bicycle fair in addition to the schedule for Sunday parkways.

The schedule is posted on their page and they have a lot going on weekly and monthly so be sure to check back regularly.

Portland Bicycle Resources

Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has good resources for bicycling. This new interactive Portland by cycle map is one of their best. One of the neat features on this map is the red circles which denote difficult intersections. Look for the purple wrenches too, and you have a great resource for finding nearby Bike Shops on the fly. The map Legend will fill you in on all the details, importantly, you can know before you go on what type of bike infrastructure you are going to be riding in, and route your bicycle ride trip plan in order to find the ride that best suits you.

This city cast podcast talks about roads and intersections that, some of the bizarre and dangerous intersections that keep people from biking and walking around town," that may not show up on the above Portland by cycle map as challenging. The folks from Sunrise PDX, BikeLoud, Community Cycling Center, StrongTowns PDX, and Depave hosted bike tours in the summer of 2025, even offering free bikes to use (from Community Cycling Center), for people and elected officials to safely tour what they felt were Portland's scariest roads and intersections with a discussion at the end of how to make dreams reality.

Mapped Portland Bike Rides (and Walks) around Portland

Another great resource from Portland are these mapped Portland Bike Rides. "These route maps showcase some of the best places to ride around Portland. The rides are all loops, using low-traffic streets, neighborhood greenways, off-street paths and bike lanes."

Also from Portland Bureau of Transportation, 15 fun bicycle rides in Portland. They've included the routes from some of the group rides in 2023, so these are good rides even if you can't make the event. There are more details about each route on their page. For some of these routes they also have printable PDF's of the routes.

-North-
1) Heart of St. Johns Peninsula Ride
7.5 miles; mostly flat, with a combination of neighborhood street connections, Neighborhood Greenways and bike lanes

2) North Greeley and Greenways Ride
7.8 miles; some hills, sections with bike lanes on busier streets

3) North Portland Bike to Books Tour Ride
3.6 miles; flat with sidewalks, marked crossings on main streets, pedestrian overpass
-Northeast-
4) Summer of Pride 2023 Bike Tour: North/Northeast Loop
6 to 8 miles; mostly flat, crossing the Bryant St. Bridge

5) The Bike to Books Tour 2023
10 miles; mostly flat, crossing the Earl Blumenauer Bridge

6) Roses, Parks and Greens Tour
8.6 miles; mostly flat, with two short blocks of climbing near Sabin school and downhill through Rose City Golf Course

7) Parkrose Pedal Tours
shorter ride: 2.9 miles; flat, mostly quiet neighborhood streets, marked crossings on major streets
longer ride: 6 miles; mix of neighborhood streets, greenways and bike lanes, one pedestrian path under freeway

8) Four Parks of East Portland Ride
6 miles; flat, some paved trails, short sections with bike lanes on busier streets

-Southeast-
9) The Art of Foster Ride
5.6 miles; flat, some paved trails, pedestrian/bike bridge, short sections with bike lanes on busier streets

10) Summer of Pride 2023 Bike Tour: Southeast Loop
6 to 8 miles; mostly flat

11) Ladd’s Key to SE Portland Ride
7.5 miles; mostly flat with moderate hills, shared roadways, bike lanes, two bike/pedestrian overpasses with elevators

12) Sellwood-Moreland Nature Ride
4.8 miles; mostly flat with two short hill sections, paved trails, and Neighborhood Greenways

-Central City-
13) The Classic Waterfront Loop Ride 10.6 miles; mostly flat, paved trails

14) Summer of Pride 2023 Bike Tour: Central Loop
7.5 miles; mostly flat, crossing the Broadway and Burnside Bridges

-South and Southwest-
15) SW Multnomah-Vermont Ride
7.3 miles; some hills, gravel path, bike lanes on busier streets

It's great that Portland Bureau of Transportation has also highlighted walks to do around Portland.

Portland Bureau of Transportation also has the most current data and the 2024 deadly crash report with the locations of each pedestrian or bicyclist killed on Portland streets.

2024 Portland Deadly Crash Report (PDF)

2024 Portland Traffic deaths by mode of travel

People in motor vehicles 23
People on motorcycles 10
Pedestrians* 22
People on bicycles 3
Total 58

Data: Portland Police Bureau.

*The term "pedestrians" here refers to people walking, using mobility devices, riding skateboards, or on e-scooters.

Portland Bicycle Shedule of Events, Classes, and Rides

Check out PBOT for their Portland By Cycle list for things like bicycle rides, and fix it classes with hands on learning for bicycle maintenance.

Here is the PBOT Portland's Bicycle Guide.

Lloyd Cycle Station - rent bicycle storage, showers, lockers, and more

Portland Green Loop - six-mile linear park that connects people through the heart of the city, a 2035 plan but the essentials for it already are in place.

For Portland, BikeTown bike share program is also something that makes going by bicycle always easy and for a great price.

Portland Summer Sunday Parkways Events - these are held at different parts of Portland each year and a huge hit with Portland people who just want even more of these fun events.

The Oregon Pedestrian and Bicycle Program

This is a program through Oregon Department of Transportation. Here you have access to more resources, like Oregon Laws and Regulations, trip planning, you can order publications, or attend an Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (OBPAC) meeting. OBPAC is a public committee that advises ODOT on statewide issues related to people walking and biking. Here is a link to their Oregon Pedestrian, Bicyclist and Driver Selected Statutes Booklet, which is still 43 pages so not really small enough to stuff in a pocket.

The 40 mile loop land trust

The 150-plus mile network* of off-street paths that marks its origin to 1983 — and the similarly named nonprofit group behind it — [...] idea is 120 years old and came from the Olmsted brothers who envisioned an interconnected system of paths and trails around Portland that would keep everyday folks in close proximity to parks and nature. (The effort to build it began in earnest during the gasoline shortages of the 1970s when planners wanted to give folks a way to get around without a car.) BikePortland.com

Here's the map - the big picture

Albany, Oregon Cycling and Mountain Biking

Benton County Bicycle Map

Benton County Trails Maps (PDF *page 1 looks blank but scroll to a wide page 2 with the color map)

Corvallis, Oregon

"Corvallis boasts 98% of the city's collector and arterial roadways having bike lanes, 18 miles of shared use paths and the introduction of our first buffered bike lanes, as the city's latest evolution of standard bicycle facilities."

The League of American Bicyclists gave Corvallis a Gold rating for their bicycle-friendliness starting in 2003, and they have definitely kept improving since then. Oregon State University located in Corvallis has also received a gold rating for being a bicycle friendly campus.