If roses are your passion, you'll also want to check out the Peninsula Park Rose Garden at the corner of N. Portland Boulevard and N. Albina Avenue (take the Portland Boulevard exit off I-5 and go 2 blocks east), which has even more rose bushes than the International Rose Test Garden.

The World's Smallest Park--Don't blink as you cross the median strip on Naito Parkway at the corner of Southwest Taylor Street, or you might just walk right past Mill Ends Park, the smallest public park in the world.

Covering a whopping 452.16 square inches of land, this park was the whimsical creation of local journalist Dick Fagen. After a telephone pole was removed from the middle of Naito Parkway (then known as Front Avenue), Fagen dubbed the phone pole hole Mill Ends Park (Mill Ends, a lumber mill term, was the name of Fagen's newspaper column). The columnist, whose office looked down on the hole in the middle of Front Avenue, peopled the imaginary park with leprechauns and would often write of the park's goings-on in his column. On St. Patrick's Day 1976, it was officially designated a Portland city park. Rumor has it that despite its diminutive size, the park has been the site of several weddings (although the parks department has never issued a wedding permit for it).