Today is a special day — Leap Day — and it only comes around when certain conditions align roughly every four years. If we didn’t observe it, our entire calendar system would slowly crumble and, within a few centuries, Christmas would be observed in mid-summer.
Leap Day got us thinking of ways to take actual leaps around Portland. Reach new heights and make the most of these extra 24 hours with one of our recommendations — or you can always just bound over a puddle.
Bounce
Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park
, 7809 NE Vancouver Plaza Dr., Ste. 100, Vancouver, WA
This newly opened, all-ages indoor recreation center has go-karts, a ropes course, and climbing walls, but if you want to experience weightlessness (and literally bounce off the walls), check out the ProZone Performance Trampolines.
Sky Zone Trampoline Park
, 2990 NE Hogan Dr., Gresham
Hone your balance on the giant air-filled balls, swing from a trapeze into a foam pit, or practice the five Ds of dodgeball
on a whole new airborne level.
Jump
Bungee Masters
, Northeast Healy Road and Northeast Belvins Road, Amboy, WA
Take a leap of (calculated and controlled) faith from a bridge nearly 200 ft above a river.
Indoor skydiving might be a good option for those who fear heights.
Photo by iFLY
Fly
PNW Skydiving
, Mulino State Airport, 26750 S. Airport Rd., Mulino
Check off a bucket list experience with the help of a tandem instructor who will be with you through every moment of freefall.
Skydive Oregon
, 12150 OR-211, Molalla
What’s the quickest way to get from 14,500 ft to the PNW’s largest private airport dedicated to skydiving? You guessed it.
iFLY Indoor Skydiving
, 10645 SW Greenburg Rd.
Feel the thrill of falling — minus the whole jumping-out-of-an-airplane and hurtling-toward-the-ground thing — in a fully enclosed wind tunnel.