Portland is obsessed with its airport. We take shoe selfies, carry bags emblazoned with its carpet pattern, and pop over for drinks even when we don’t have a flight. It’s long been considered one of the country’s most attractive airports, but the Port of Portland has leveled up. Its newly designed main terminal opened last summer with a colossal, skylight-dotted wooden ceiling (a new favorite selfie backdrop), a forest’s worth of live plants and trees, and plenty of Portland-founded presecurity shops, restaurants, and bars. There’s more to come—terminal construction should wrap by 2026—but today you can grab a beer at Loyal Legion and watch the crowds, plane ticket or no. 

A Look at the Numbers

$2.15b Cost of terminal renovations and expansion. 

6m Craftworker hours logged.

49 Skylights in the new terminal.

180 Distance, in feet, that the terminal has expanded westward.

72 Number of living trees planned for the terminal.

96 Oregon taps at Loyal Legion PDX.

5,000+ Number of other live plants in the airport. 

3.5m Board feet of wood used in the roof.

30 Percentage of wood used that can be traced to its forest of origin.

16 Percentage of wood used that came from tribal lands.

4 Oregon and Washington tribes contributing wood from sovereign lands.

300 Farthest distance from PDX, in miles, from which lumber was sourced.