Yet Another Award for Portland

Frommer%26#39;s Guidebook has named Portland as one of it%26#39;s 12 top travel destinations in the world for 2007.

http://tinyurl.com/sadcp

This has been a great year for recognition of the Rose City. Other awards and top lists that have featured Portland this year:

Conde Nast Traveler - PDX #1 Best Domestic Airport for Business Travel (I%26#39;ve been saying this for years, but until now, nobody has believed me). http://tinyurl.com/sadcp

ICLEI - Portland only U.S. City to make the list of top 9 World%26#39;s most successful cities. http://tinyurl.com/yxrpcn

Dog Fancy Magazine - Portland #1 Dog-Friendly City in U.S.

http://tinyurl.com/u6dgn

SustaineLane - Portland #1 Most Sustainable City

http://www.sustainlane.us/overview.jsp

Men%26#39;s Journal - Portland #1 Place to Live

mensjournal.com/feature/0604/bestplaces.html

Prevention Magazine - Portland #1 Walking City

http://tinyurl.com/r747r

Bicycling Magazine - Portland #1 Cycling City

http://tinyurl.com/yyrjkk

Bankers Life - Portland #1 City for Seniors

bankerslife.com/Web/AboutUs-PR-TopCities.aspx

GMAC - Oregon #1 Least Dumb Drivers (really?)

cnn.com/2005/鈥ndex.html

We truly are lucky. The more I travel, the more I appreciate Portland.

Yet Another Award for Portland

Thanks so much for the post J%26amp;S! As we were going over the Coronado Bridge this week in San Diego, it reminded us of Portland in certain areas. Portland is a great place to live and visit. Happy Holidays to you! :)

Yet Another Award for Portland

Hi, thanks J%26amp;S, great list of How Other People Agree with Those of Us Who Live In Portland ....sorry, wasn%26#39;t that one of the publicatios ? LOL

Even the dog will agree :)

It really is a wonderful area to live in, we feel quite blessed to have been able to visit here, choose it as our next home and be able to live in the heart of the city with a view of the West Hills and all those beautiful huge green trees .. with the Coast just 90 minutes away..a little bit of everything wonderful about Oregon.

As syrahgirl knows, it is a great place to visit too.

Nice to see our city getting the recognition it deserves. Although it would be nice to keep it more of a secret;)

Maybe it is jetlag (just got home an hour or so ago from Florida)...but Coronado and Portland similar...not in the over a couple dozen times I%26#39;ve been to Coronado, lol!

Welcome home, Mtngrl. :-) Did you get to see the shuttle launch?

LOL, the San Diego that I know and Portland are not very similar to me either..Welcome back Mtngrl..can%26#39;t wait to hear about the Shuttle Launch and Disney.

Some how I see a problem with Portland being top 12 travel destination.

Think we would put Paris, Rome, Kyoto, New York City, Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Santa Fe, Venice, Florence, Nashville and several others ahead of it.

Thr parameters used are more why should you live here, not travel here. dogs, bikes, walking

I think Oregon one of top places in world to visit, Portland small part of that.

Agree with you Phril-

I think Frommers just ran out of cities or Paris was their 2006 destination :)

Although I do agree with the #1 airport. I haven%26#39;t been to very many airports, but I definetly think PDX is nicer than the ones i%26#39;ve visited.

Definitely PDX is a great airport!

Coming home after 17 hours of travel, it was so great to be met by the nice smiling people at our airport :)

Thanks:) Yes, we saw the launch....it went on the 2nd attempt, so 2 nights of heavy security and lots of waiting, but oh so worth it!!!

The PDX airport...yes...great...and especially like Scarlett says, after travelling it REALLY looks good! Just like your own bed, lol! We had long flights and a couple delays, so PDX was looking pretty darn good when we finally arrived home.

Great, Mtngrl. That%26#39;s an experience not many can claim, and a night launch to boot! Must have been thrilling. Did you get any photos? ;-) On the subject of this thread, I agree with you. I wonder if Portland will still be winning awards 15 years from now when there%26#39;s a million more people living in the metro area.