Klickitat Street

{{Short description|Street in Portland, Oregon, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox street

| name = Klickitat Street

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| image = Barnes House - Portland Oregon.jpg

| caption = The historic mansion of meatpacking magnate Frank Barnes at number 3533.{{citation |url=http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=13150 |title=Living large |author=Kristine White |journal=The Portland Tribune |date=Sep 10, 2002}}

| length_mi = 3.9

| length_ref = The Google Maps walking distance is {{convert|3.9|mi|km}} according to {{google maps | url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=45.546695,-122.654715&daddr=NE+Klickitat+St&geocode=%3BFVr7tgIdfqCx-A&gl=us&hl=en&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=14&dirflg=w&sll=45.545433,-122.61034&sspn=0.053439,0.132093&ie=UTF8&z=14 | accessdate=January 23, 2010 | title=Klickitat Street}}, but the actual span is {{convert|3.75|mi|km}} due to an unknown cause compared to Google Maps straight line measurement tool.

| location = Portland, Oregon

| maint = City of Portland

| direction_a = West

| terminus_a = Northeast 11th Avenue {{coord | 45.546759 | -122.654874 | type:landmark_region:US-OR_source:googlemapssatellite | name=west end of Klickitat Street}}

| direction_b = East

| terminus_b = Northeast 84th Avenue {{coord | 45.546323 | -122.576776 | type:landmark_region:US-OR_source:googlemapssatellite | name=east end of Klickitat Street}}

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Klickitat Street is a city street located in northeastNortheast refers to one of Portland's five quadrants. See Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon for an overview map. Portland, Oregon, United States. The main stem of the street is {{convert|3.75|mi|adj=on}} long, and runs east-west parallel to—and one block south of—northeast Fremont Street, from the eastern edge of Irving Park to Northeast 67th Avenue.{{cite web

| url = http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=50518

| title = Bicycle Boulevards / Neighborhood Greenways: Streets with low traffic volume and speed where bicycles, pedestrians and neighbors are given priority

| work = Portland Online

| author = City of Portland Bureau of Transportation

| accessdate = January 23, 2011

}} Additional disconnected segments are east of Rocky Butte from 105th to 117th,Maps of 105th to 117th: {{coord | 45.54679 | -122.54833 | type:landmark_region:US-OR_dim:800 | name=Klickitat Street, 105th to 117th}} 148th to 154th,Maps of 148th to 154th: {{coord | 45.54714 | -122.50699 | type:landmark_region:US-OR_dim:450 | name=Klickitat Street, 148th to 154th}} and 163rd to 165th.Maps of 163rd to 165th: {{coord | 45.54712 | -122.49354 | type:landmark_region:US-OR_dim:200 | name=Klickitat Street, 163rd to 165th}} A segment named Klickitat Court is between 135th and 140th.Maps of 135th to 140th: {{coord | 45.54653 | -122.52130 | type:landmark_region:US-OR_dim:400 | name=Klickitat Court, 135th to 140th}}

The street is one of Portland's most heavily used bicycle throughways and was selected as one of 15 streets slated for improvement as a "next-generation bicycle boulevard" by the city of Portland. Planned improvements included a flashing beacon at the intersection with NE 33rd, which can be enabled by bicyclists and pedestrians to increase safety and maintain low vehicular traffic.{{cite web

| url = http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/05/flashing_light_to_aid_alameda.html

| title = Flashing light to aid Alameda's N.E. 33rd crossing

| author = Anne Laufe

| work = The Oregonian

| date = May 28, 2010

| accessdate = January 22, 2011

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The street is named after a local Native American tribe, the Klickitat, and became famous as the fictional home of the characters Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby and Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby in a series of children's novels by Beverly Cleary.{{citation |pages=108–110 |title=Oregon Curiosities |author=Harriet Baskas |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-7627-4971-3 |publisher=Globe Pequot}} Cleary grew up on nearby Hancock Street, and said the name reminded her of "the sound of knitting needles."{{cite news | work=The New York Times | date=October 26, 1995 | last=Bumiller | first=Elisabeth | title=On Klickitat Street With: Beverly Cleary; For 3 Generations, The Child's Choice | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/26/garden/on-klickitat-street-with-beverly-cleary-for-3-generations-the-child-s-choice.html | accessdate=January 23, 2011}} There are statues of the characters in the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in nearby Grant Park.{{cite web|url=http://www.multcolib.org/parents/cleary/ |title=Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden |accessdate=June 1, 2010 |publisher=Multnomah County Library |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613090602/http://multcolib.org/parents/cleary/ |archivedate=June 13, 2010 }}

The street also appears in a 2024 The Simpsons episode, "Night of the Living Wage".

File:NE Klickitat Street at 81st Avenue - Portland, Oregon.JPG