The early tour guest gets the spectacular views. We’ll pick you up in central city centre Portland, and take our favourite drive along the city's western ridgeline, down into pocket areas that feel like secrets. At OHSU, we’ll walk with you to the Aerial Tram. We’ll serve you craft roasted coffee and some of Portland’s best doughnuts with a view of the first morning light, then we’ll ride this feat of Italian engineering up to the top as the early sun reveals the city’s glowing colours. (Due to new hours for some shops and varying sunrise times, coffee may be our first stop.)

After we ride back to the bottom, we'll tell you the storey of the bridge and its quixotic lights, and orient you to the city whose east-west divider lies before us.

The Aerial Tram was built in 2006 to connect the main campus of Oregon Health Sciences University with the new area of the South Waterfront. We will be joining students and medical staff on their daily tram ride!