The Eastbank Esplanade

The Eastbank Esplanade (officially Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade) is a pedestrian and bicycle path along the east shore of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. The Willamette River (pronounced) is a Tributary of the Columbia River. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[1] Running through the Kerns, Buckman, and Hosford-Abernethy neighborhoods, it was conceived as an urban renewal project to rebuild the Interstate 5 bicycle bypass washed out by the Willamette Valley Flood of 1996. Kerns is a neighborhood in the inner Northeast and Southeast sections of Portland Oregon. Buckman is a neighborhood in the Southeast section (and tiny portion of the Northeast section of Portland Oregon. Hosford-Abernethy is a neighborhood in the inner Southeast section of Portland Oregon. Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U Interstate 5 (I-5 is the main Interstate highway on the West Coast of the United States, paralleling the Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico The Willamette Valley Flood of 1996 was part of a larger series of Floods in the Pacific Northwest of the United States which took place between late January It was renamed for former Portland mayor Vera Katz in November 2004^[1] and features a statue of her near the Hawthorne Bridge. Vera Katz (born August 3 1933) is a German born Democratic politician in the U The Hawthorne Bridge is a Truss bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland Oregon, joining Hawthorne

The project, designed by landscape architects Mayer/Reed, cost $30 million,^[2] of which $10 million was spent to build a lower deck on the Steel Bridge. The Steel Bridge is a Through truss, double lift Bridge across the Willamette River in Portland Oregon, United States. Construction began in October 1998, and the walkway was dedicated in May 2001. ^[1]

The esplanade extends 1. 5 miles (2. 4 km) from the Steel Bridge to the Hawthorne Bridge. The Hawthorne Bridge is a Truss bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland Oregon, joining Hawthorne ^[1] The south end connects to the Springwater Corridor, a rail trail that runs south to Sellwood, then east to Gresham, then south to Boring. The Springwater Corridor Trail is a Bicycle and Pedestrian Rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States Rail trail is a term for a Trail that makes use of a railroad right-of-way (ROW. Sellwood-Moreland is a neighborhood on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River in Southeast Portland, Oregon, bordering Westmoreland to the Gresham (ˈɡrɛʃəm is a city located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States immediately east of Portland. Boring is an unincorporated Community located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. The esplanade includes a 1,200-foot (370 m) floating walkway, the longest of its kind in the United States. An esplanade is a long open level area usually next to a river or large body of water where people may walk The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[1] Connected to this is a 120-foot (37 m) public dock. ^[1] Thirteen markers along the esplanade correspond to the eastside street grid.

Downtown Portland as seen from the Eastbank Esplanade

References

External links

• Portland Development Commission Eastbank Esplanade site
• American Society of Landscape Architects, 2004 Design Award of Merit