Embracing our river

Creating river access and a “habitat” that people come to love is what drives us.

MISSION Transform Portland’s relationship with the Willamette River.

VISION A city in love with its river.

PATH OF OBJECTIVES

1. Build it – create a human habitat and more accessibility points to the Willamette River in Portland.

2. Use it – inspire people to connect with the Willamette River and embrace it.

3. Love it – facilitate conservation, education, and stewardship of the Willamette River and Watershed.

4. Sustain it - as Jacques Cousteau said so well. "People protect what they love".

With the help of many volunteers, donors, sponsors, city officials, regulators, and untold others (with a shout out to the Big Pipe), our river is being revitalized and getting some much-needed love.