North Willamette Boulevard will be one of the stars of the show when Sunday Parkways hits this summer. The Portland Bureau of Transportation announced the 2026 Sunday Parkways season this morning and shared that the beloved open streets event will return to the North Portland Peninsula for the first time since 2019.
2026 is the 19th year of Sunday Parkways, a carfree fair that stretches for miles across the city and highlights parks and Portland’s largest public space — our streets.
We’re just two months from the first event of the season. Below are the dates and routes:
May 17th in Southwest Portland
June 28th in East Portland
August 2nd in North Portland
September 13th in Downtown Portland
Also in their announcement today, PBOT shared a series of City Bike Fairs that will kick off with the Hazelwood Bike Fair at Menlo Park Elementary on April 24th. The Centennial neighborhood will host a bike fair at Parklane Elementary School on May 29th and two more fairs coming to North and Northwest Portland will be announced soon. These bike fairs are billed as, “free, all-ages community events where adults and children can learn to ride a bike, get fitted with a new helmet, practice the rules of the road, and get minor repairs on their bikes.
For more route and event details, check the Sunday Parkways website.
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I see that PBOT still isn’t bold enough to plan a route downtown North of Burnside. Seems like a missed opportunity with multiple intersections with stoplights and Better Nato going underneath the bridge.
Glad they are giving North Portland some love.
Man do I feel old. Haven’t participated in Sunday Parkways for a long time since 2019 in North Portland.
2019? Bah! I was there in 2008 when the first one happened… also in North Portland.
Bummed to lose the NE Portland Sunday Parkways, this program is underfunded and should include more events. Hopefully the NE route will return next year.
I hope they have more full street closures downtown this year – last year was fun, but the ride choppy when every few blocks was stop and go.
It does not appear there will be bike bus routes to downtown as in 2025. This seems like a missed opportunity to find some overlap between Sunday Parkways and “Bikeable Portland.” Sunday Parkways is a popular event that has people who may not ride a bike more than a handful of times a year, and the “Bikeable Portland” plan presumably must target a similar demographic for it to be successful.
Absolutely bonkers that something that’s been happening for 19 years just didn’t come to one of Portland’s 5 quadrants anytime from 2019-2025
Every year the routes come out I’m disappointed that inner-SE will seemingly never again be selected. Those were the EASILY the biggest events they’ve ever had, and for good reason. With the exception of the NoPo route, these suck as bike routes. Bring back Lauerlhurst, Lincoln, Ankney, Colonel Summers!!!