4th OF JULY PORTLAND FLAG HUNT

Part of the fun of 4th of July in Portland is the Portland flag hunt.

You can do it anywhere in the city, but walking along the waterfront is the best viewing.

How many can you count between the Burnside and Hawthorne bridges? Leave the count and locations in comments.

Of course a drone shot would be spectacular, but a long lens works too.

Old Glory flying over downtown Portland is a score on every Portland flag hunt.

But it’s not the only one.

Battleship Oregon the top Portland flag hunt.

You can tell someone the entire boat is buried in Waterfront Park only once.

After that they look it up and discover it’s not the whole ship and that other parts are scattered around town.

If this doesn’t spark your patriotic fire, keep going.

Eastside of Portland flag hunt.

The eastside might have been it’s own city, but not anymore.

As much as we love independence, the same flag flies over all America.

Even Portland’s eastside gets into it.

Small flags matter for Portland flag hunt.

You don’t need a parade sized flag, or Burger King sized flag, to count.

Even a small flag matters.

If it’s red, white, and blue, and hanging from a pole, it counts.

More than one Portland flag hunt?

This is the only flag that matters on a Portland flag hunt on the Fourth of July.

You might see others, but you don’t get credit.

And only one flag flies highest.

Portland flag hunt scores another.

No extra points for the green cross over the fire department, but don’t you want to know what it represents?

The Waterfront Park hike brings out the regulars with their flags, but special events bring out more.

A flag on the water means the Navy is in town?

Water side of Portland flag hunt.

The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, like Paul Revere’s famous ride, brings people by land and by water.

These aren’t the Redcoats landing, just music fans on the float.

And a huge flag under the Hawthorne Bridge.