The best public toilets in Portland, for most visitors, are inside big public places like the Central Library and the visitor information center at Pioneer Courthouse Square, plus the city's own standalone Portland Loo units. All of them appear on the Stinky Stars map, and they're where I'd look first. What I can't give you is an honest ranked top ten. Nobody has reviewed a Portland listing on Stinky Stars yet, so any "best" ranking today would be a guess. Here's the next best thing: what's mapped, where to start, and how to check a stop before you walk over.
Last updated: November 2026
Everyone knows the Portland Loo. Fewer people know what a pin can't tell you.
Ask anyone who's spent a weekend downtown and they'll mention the Loo. It's a single-occupancy public toilet that the city of Portland designed itself, and the first one went into Old Town Chinatown in 2008, according to its Wikipedia entry. That same entry says the inside is roomy enough to wheel in a bike or a stroller, which is a nice touch in a city that bikes as much as this one.
On the Stinky Stars map, 14 listings in Portland have "Portland Loo" in their name. That's the well-known part.
The little-understood part is that a famous name tells you where a toilet is, not what it's like this afternoon. Of those 14 Loo listings, 6 carry the Wheelchair Accessible tag and only 1 is listed as open around the clock. The rest simply don't say. That doesn't mean they're closed or inaccessible. It means the source data didn't record it, and no reviewer has filled the gap yet.
So "find a Loo" is a good start. It isn't a plan.
What the map shows in Portland right now
I counted listings in a rectangle drawn around Portland's city limits (from the Beaverton edge east to the Gresham line, and north to the Columbia River so Vancouver, Washington stays out), using the map's own public data file from November 8, 2026. A few edge-of-town spots in neighboring suburbs land inside that box too, so treat these as close, not exact.
| What the listing shows | Portland listings |
|---|---|
| Total restroom listings | 460 |
| Tagged Gender Neutral | 206 |
| Tagged Wheelchair Accessible | 185 |
| Tagged Baby Changing | 32 |
| Listed as open 24/7 | 3 |
| Named only "Public Restroom" | 216 |
Two things stand out. Almost half the Portland pins are labeled just "Public Restroom." They come from public data sources without a business name attached, so read their tags before you commit. And baby changing is thin: 32 tagged listings across the whole city.
Places to try first
These are all on the Stinky Stars map, with the tags their listings show today. I've stuck to big, public-facing places because they're the most predictable bet when you don't know the neighborhood.
- Central Library (801 SW 10th Ave): tagged Wheelchair Accessible, Baby Changing, Gender Neutral and Public Access.
- Visitor information center at Pioneer Courthouse Square (6th and Morrison): the same four tags, and right in the middle of downtown.
- Lloyd Center Tower (825 NE Multnomah St): tagged Wheelchair Accessible, Gender Neutral and Public Access, handy on the east side of the river.
- Oregon Convention Center (777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd): tagged Gender Neutral and Public Access.
One caveat that matters a lot: Stinky Stars listings don't have an hours field. A library or a convention center keeps its own hours, so check them before you plan your afternoon around one. A building that's an easy win at 11 a.m. on a Wednesday can be locked tight on a Sunday night.
My take: start with a Loo or a library, not a café
Portland has a lot of café and bar pins on the map, and plenty of them are perfectly good options. But a business can change how it handles restroom access whenever it likes, and nothing on a map updates the moment it does. A public library or a city-built toilet is designed for the public. That's why I'd try one of those first and treat a café as plan B.
If you do use a café's restroom, buy something. It's cheap goodwill, and it keeps the door open for the next person who's doing the walk of urgency down Burnside.
Accessibility in Portland
For wheelchair users, people pushing strollers or anyone with a mobility aid, "is there a toilet" is only half the question. "Can I get in and use it" is the other half.
185 of the 460 Portland listings carry the Wheelchair Accessible tag, so that's a decent pool to start from. But a missing tag isn't proof a place is inaccessible. It usually means nobody recorded it. For those, calling ahead is still the safest move. Stinky Stars also has no filters, so you can't hide everything except accessible restrooms; you'll tap into each listing and check the tag yourself. For more on comparing options this way, the accessible public bathrooms map guide walks through it.
How to find one in Portland, step by step
- Open the Stinky Stars map. You don't need an account to browse or search.
- Share your location, or drag the map to the blocks you're in. Search matches restroom names and addresses, so "Central Library" works and "Pearl District" won't.
- Zoom in. The map shows up to the 40 restrooms nearest the center of your view, and Portland has far more than 40 listings.
- Tap a pin. The listing shows the overall score, amenity tags and any written reviews.
- Look at the top of the listing for a "Reported in the last 24 hours" box. If a reviewer flagged something like out of order or out of soap in the past day, it appears there.
That routine won't promise you a spotless stall. It will stop you crossing a bridge to a place that was never going to let you in.
Help build Portland's real ranking
Right now every Portland marker is a neutral 🚻, which is the map's way of saying "nobody's reviewed this yet." The fastest way to a genuine best-of list is for people who actually use these toilets to rate them. A quick star rating takes seconds, and rating needs a free sign-in.
If you want the bigger picture of how a city shortlist comes together, see cleanest public bathrooms in my city. And when you just need something close in a hurry, clean public toilets near me covers the fast version.
Stinky Stars has more than 37,000 restrooms mapped across 123 cities and towns, and it's free. Portland is well covered on the map. It's just waiting on its first reviewers.
Frequently asked questions
Where are the best public toilets in Portland?
Big public places are the most predictable choice. The Central Library and the visitor information center at Pioneer Courthouse Square both appear on the Stinky Stars map tagged Wheelchair Accessible, Baby Changing and Gender Neutral. The map also lists 14 Portland Loo units. Check each building's own hours, since Stinky Stars listings don't include an hours field.
Does Stinky Stars rank Portland's public toilets?
Not yet. A restroom's marker reflects its overall community rating, and as of November 2026 no Portland listing had its first review, so they all show the neutral 🚻 marker. A real ranking will appear once people rate the places they use. A quick star rating takes seconds with a free sign-in.
How many public restrooms are on the map in Portland?
The map's public data file from November 8, 2026 held about 460 listings in a box drawn around Portland's city limits, stopping at the Columbia River. Of those, 185 were tagged Wheelchair Accessible and 206 Gender Neutral. The map shows up to 40 restrooms nearest the center of your view, so zoom in on where you are.
Are Portland Loo toilets open 24 hours?
Stinky Stars can't confirm that for most of them. Of the 14 Portland Loo listings on the map, only one is listed as open around the clock, and that tag reflects the source data, not a guarantee. The other listings don't record hours either way, so look for posted signs or check with the city before counting on a late-night stop.