Overview

Located in Southwest Portland, the West Hills neighborhood is one of affluence and beauty. While the name is sometimes broadened to include the neighborhoods of Arlington Heights, Council Crest, Forest Park, Hillside, King Heights, Portland Heights and the Southwest Hills, generally it refers simply to the Southwest Hills alone. This region contains both upscale homes on larger lots as well as smaller, single-family residences and condominiums. It is also studded with retirement communities, its walkability and beauty appealing to the older set. Multnomah Village, a micro-neighborhood situated within the West Hills, offers a charming escape from the bustling city with smaller stretches of shopping and dining that mimic the delights of a beach or mountain town. Hillsdale has the same diversions, with one of the city’s only traditional movie stores, an imports store, grocery and several coffee shops as well as a bakery. The many restaurant options include the upstart brewing company Sasquatch. Perfect for raising families, the area is home to several daycares, as well as the Portland Jewish Academy and acclaimed Wilson High School (at which a biweekly farmers market runs year round). Southwest Portland also brings the natural beauty of a country setting inside the city limits in the form of a vast network of trails that snake through neighborhoods, skirt busy roads and wind across small patches of wilderness. In addition to the trail system, which is numbered and leads all over the area, nearby Tryon Creek State Natural Area offers another wilderness escape.