Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Spring Blossoms, 2002

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Tom McCall Waterfront Park: This park was, until the 1970's, a four-lane highway. When I-5 and I-405 were built as a loop around downtown Portland, highway 99W became unnecessary, so the highway was turned into the present waterfront park, which has become the site of numerous summer festivals as well as year-round recreation. There was also an effort to clean up the Willamette River in the 1970's to coincide with this re-bonding of downtown Portland with the river, but the river's cleaner profile didn't last long and has since become hopelessly polluted again. The park has still become an essential part of the city.

Morrison Bridge: Finished in 1958, the Morrison Bridge, a drawbridge, lies north of the Hawthorne Bridge and south of the Burnside Bridge downtown.  The east side approaches are Belmont Street and Morrison Street; the west side approaches are Washington Street and Alder Street.  This bridge replaced an earlier bridge built in the 1890's.

The Morrison Bridge is not lit most of the year anymore - only around the December holidays.