Getting around Portland is lot easier when you know the city is divided into four "quadrants," with a North and now a South (rivers make things interesting) where the race is located.

The Willamette River divides Portland into east and west sides. North/south running streets are generally numbered, starting at the Willamette River and going up in number as you head east or west. Burnside Street divides Portland into north and south halves. East/west running streets in the NW quadrant are in alphabetic order with Burnside representing "B" on the southern end and Yeon representing "Y" on the northern end (Ankeny for "A" is in SW; there is no "Z"). The fifth non-quadrant is North Portland, which has less distinct boundaries, but is generally the peninsula between the Willamette and Columbia, west of I-5. The new South non-quadrant is the densly-populated area east of Naito Parkway to the Willamette River and most street addresses start with a "0." Street names are preceded with an N, NW, NE, or S, SE, SW corresponding with the "quadrant."

Bridges crossing the Willamette are also a reference point. From north to south, the bridges are: St. John's, Fremont (I-405), Broadway, Steel, Burnside, Morrison, Hawthorne (our finish line), Marquam (I-5, our start line), Tilikum Crossing, Ross Island and Sellwood.

The festival venue, host hotels and Downtown are all in S and SW; the airport is in NE. Nothing is really that far away from you, wherever you are in Portland.