| Klickitat Street | |
| Length Mi: | 3.9 |
| Length Ref: | [1] |
| Location: | Portland, Oregon |
| Maint: | City of Portland |
| Direction A: | West |
| Terminus A: | Northeast 11th Avenue 45.5468°N -122.6549°W |
| Direction B: | East |
| Terminus B: | Northeast 84th Avenue 45.5463°N -122.5768°W |
Klickitat Street is a city street located in northeast[2] Portland, Oregon, United States. The main stem of the street is 3.75miles 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.[3] Additional disconnected segments are east of Rocky Butte from 105th to 117th,[4] 148th to 154th,[5] and 163rd to 165th.[6] A segment named Klickitat Court is between 135th and 140th.[7]
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.[3] 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.[8]
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. Cleary grew up on nearby Hancock Street, and said the name reminded her of "the sound of knitting needles."[9] There are statues of the characters in the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in nearby Grant Park.[10]
The street also appears in a 2024 The Simpsons episode, "Night of the Living Wage".