[7] The Portland is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and presently hosts the Oregon Maritime Museum which owns the vessel.

The vessel is moored at the Willamette River seawall next to Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland.

[2][8] For these reasons, she is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "an outstanding representative of her type and method of construction.

Interest and fundraising for the project exceeded expectations, and $700,000 in donations allowed Portland to be restored to a functioning, seaworthy condition.

[12] The heavy-laden S.G. Follis, inbound to Portland, ran firm aground at the Sauvie Island dike.

The Columbia River Pilots Association saw this incident as justification for having insisted that Portland be a steam-powered sternwheeler.

A Coast Guard investigation cited a problem with an improperly repaired gear in the steering system dating back to 1997.