Captain William Clark Monument

Other Sites of Interest

Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
(Tri-Met bus #5)
5340 N. Interstate Ave.,
(503.823.2072)
The theater and the art gallery display works by minority artists.

Peninsula Park Rose Garden
(Tri-Met bus #4 or #40 )
North Ainsworth Street and Albina Avenue. There are nearly 9,000 rose bushes in gardens planted in 1912.

The Captain William Clark Monument
University of Portland
(Tri-Met bus #40)
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
(503.283.7202)
Sculpted by the same artist who created the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument, this depicts a Native American, Clark and his black slave York, who accompanied the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The sculpture overlooks the Willamette River on Waud’s Bluff, the farthest known point on the river reached by the explorers.

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