Thrift stores in Portland
- 41 shops
- 11 thrift
- 30 used books & secondhand
- 1 walking route
- within 5 mi of downtown
Portland has 41 stores on the list, nine of them used bookstores. Southeast Stark Street holds three, and Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Southeast Division Street and Southeast Milwaukie Avenue each have a pair. The Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard run is the walk to make, four stores in nine minutes, ending at Powell's Books on Hawthorne by way of Telephone Vintage and The Needle. Goodwill accounts for eight branches around the city.
Chains with several branches: Goodwill (8)
Book-hunting routes
1 routeShops a few minutes' walk apart, in walking order. Do a run in one go and the outliers another day.
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Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard run4 shops
Telephone Vintage → Alien Mermaid Cove → The Needle → Powell's Books on Hawthorne
· ~9 min
Showing 41 shops
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Friends of the Multnomah County Library Store Used bookstore
Fri–Sat 12:00–17:00
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Goodwill Thrift store
Southwest 10th Avenue · 97205
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Mother Foucault's Used bookstore
Southeast Morrison Street · 97214
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Vintage Vintage Secondhand store
Southeast 11th Avenue · 97214
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Salvage Goods Secondhand store
Northeast Couch Street · 97232
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Telephone Vintage Secondhand store
Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard run · stop 1
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Honey, I'm home Secondhand store
North Mississippi Avenue · 97227
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Alien Mermaid Cove Secondhand store
Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard · 97214
Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard run · stop 2
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Alchemy Secondhand store
North Williams Avenue · 97227
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Powell's Books on Hawthorne Used bookstore
Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard · 97214
Mon–Sun 10:00–21:00 · Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard run · stop 4
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Paige Auction Secondhand store
South Macadam Avenue · 97239
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Community Warehouse Thrift store
Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard · 97212
Wed–Sat 11:00–17:00
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Upstairs Basement Secondhand store
Southeast Division Street · 97206
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Zig Zag Wanderer Secondhand store
Northeast Alberta Street · 97211
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ReClaim It! Secondhand store
North Killingsworth Street
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Hollywood Babylon Secondhand store
Northeast Sandy Boulevard · 97213
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Katelyn's Closet Secondhand store
Southwest Capitol Highway · 97219
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Consignment Gallery Secondhand store
Southeast 13th Avenue · 97202
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Goodwill Thrift store4.2 mi
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Beanstalk Secondhand store
Southeast Stark Street · 97215
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Rerun 2 Secondhand store
Northeast Sandy Boulevard · 97213
Thu–Sat 11:00–18:00, Sun 11:00–17:00, Public holidays closed
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Teen Challenge Thrift Store Secondhand store
Southeast 82nd Avenue · 97266
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That One Vintage Shop Secondhand store
Southeast 21st Avenue · 97222
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Goodwill Thrift store5.4 mi
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Book hunting in Portland
Nearest-first is a decent route plan on its own: cluster your visits, start with the shops closest to each other, and save the outliers for days you're passing anyway. Thrift stores re-shelve constantly, most put new donations out every day or two, so a shop that was quiet on Saturday can be a different shop by Wednesday. Weekday mornings beat weekend afternoons, and it's always worth asking staff when the book cart comes out.
20 of the shops here have their opening hours on record, and 15 of those open on Sundays. Where no hours are listed, nobody has recorded them yet. 21 of the 41 are general second-hand shops.
If you want the odds on your side, read our guides to finding good books in thrift and charity shops and spotting the books worth grabbing before you set out.
Donating books in Portland
11 of the shops here are charity-run and take book donations during opening hours. Ask at the counter for a receipt if you want to claim the donation against tax. Shops pay to dispose of what they cannot sell, so a bad donation costs the charity money. The test before you pack a bag: would someone buy this today? Recent fiction, classics, cookery and children's books move. Old textbooks, out-of-date travel guides and anything damp or mouldy do not.
Our guide to where to donate books covers which shops suit which books, and what to do with a whole house clear-out.
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