🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Catio Tour
Not a cat walk, and the oldest thing here by a decade: ten backyard cat enclosures, since 2013.
Included because it is the ancestor, and because anybody who likes the walks on this list will like this. It is not a cat walk: you are looking at the enclosures rather than at the cats, it is ticketed, and you drive between stops rather than walk.
The Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon and the Bird Alliance of Oregon have run it since 2013, four years before Minneapolis, which makes the neat story about cat walks starting in 2017 true only of cat walks. Ten catios on the 2026 tour, from a shelf on a window to full backyard architecture.
The point of it is not whimsy. It funds the Cats Safe at Home campaign, whose argument is that a cat outdoors is a danger to birds and in danger itself, and that a catio settles both. Fifteen dollars, and the ticket is the map.
Dates move every year. Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon and Bird Alliance of Oregon has this year’s.
