Visitor Information
Are you a visiting team? Need hotel accomodations? It's all here
Host Teams
Please indicate on your registration form if you would like a host team (and if you have already made arrangements with a local team, let us know that as well).
Visiting teams will be contacted individually about host team arrangements in August.
Visiting teams will be contacted individually about host team arrangements in August.
Visiting Team Practices
Visiting teams are encouraged to schedule a free one-hour practice anytime on Friday, September 6th.
Schedule Your Practice SessionsRegister for the RaceAccomodations
Host Hotels (from 2025 - new list coming)
Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
You can't get much more convenient than this--right across the street from the festival venue!
(Please note that the rate may reflect the hotel’s Destination Fee on the second page of booking. This fee is automatically waived at check-in for all group bookings.)
Royal Sonesta Portland
University Place Hotel
Residence Inn Portland Downtown/RiverPlace
All-suite hotel with discounted suites available. Just a short 1/2 mile walk along the waterfront to the festival venue.
More information coming soon
Hyatt House Portland Downtown
Other Options
If these hotels are don't work for you (or are completely booked), there are a lot of other options in and around Portland, especially in the Downtown area and Convention Center/Lloyd Center area (a short MAX ride away).
Overnight Parking
Valet parking is expensive! Marriott provided this handy summary of options:
Local Area ParkingGetting to and Around Portland
No need to spend big bucks on a town car when you arrive! MAX, Portland's light rail system, runs right from the airport to Downtown Portland and from the train and bus stations through Downtown.
A note for air travelers: Most airlines will make you check your paddles. A protective golf bag or other sports equipment bag may work for your paddle, with some extra bubble wrap. If you prefer not to travel with your paddle, there will be paddles at the race venue to borrow.
A note for air travelers: Most airlines will make you check your paddles. A protective golf bag or other sports equipment bag may work for your paddle, with some extra bubble wrap. If you prefer not to travel with your paddle, there will be paddles at the race venue to borrow.
Getting Around Portland
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.
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.
