The island platform station adjoins Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight tracks to the east and McLoughlin Boulevard to the west.

Nearby destinations include Westmoreland Park, Eastmoreland Golf Course, Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, and Reed College.

Southeast Bybee Boulevard station was built as part of the Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail Project, which extended MAX from downtown Portland to Milwaukie in Clackamas County.

[2] The Bybee Bridge was originally built in 1911 by the Ladd Estate Company to serve property developments around the then-newly established Reed College in Eastmoreland.

[16] In 2008, Metro (the Portland metropolitan area's regional government) adopted a locally preferred alternative that retained the stop.

In 2012, TriMet approached engineering firm CH2M Hill for further design recommendations, which led to a second bus pull-out and elevator on the south side of the bridge.

[citation needed] The station occupies a section of dedicated light rail right-of-way running in between two parallel transportation corridors: McLoughlin Boulevard to the west and UP freight tracks to the east, which mark the boundary of two Portland neighborhoods, Sellwood-Moreland to the west and Eastmoreland to the east.