Pacific Northwest Skydiving Center

I've jumped at many dz's and this one has by far the homiest feel. Nobody gets yelled at for stupid shit just a short discussion and explanation and you're on your way. nice jumpers and a great place to come and learn all disciplines of skydiving, especially if you want to do coaching or learn to become a camera flyer. Gotta stop by and check it out. Dog friendly which is a huge plus for many and just all around good people. Also we throw bbq's all the time.... Come say Hi!!!

I recently went on a road trip through the northwest and stopped at a lot of dropzones along the way, big and small. This was by far my favorite dropzone. The only con I could possibly see to this dz is the plane. They have a 206 right now, however, we were still getting about 12,000 feet every jump for $21. Not to mention this dz has a ton of potential to grow. The two owners I had the most interaction with were Dave and Natalie and I can't say enough good things about them. Additionally, their entire staff was fun to be around. They were so nice to me from the moment I showed up and I had the time of my life. They truly care about fun jumpers and their whole staff was jumping with me. Their landing area was very nice as well. On another note, if you are looking to do a tandem, I would also recommend this place. They were extremely nice and professional to all their tandems that came in that day. I would highly recommend going to this dz over their neighbors at Skydive Oregon. I didn't really enjoy my experience there and they didn't really seem like they enjoyed skydiving... I would take the small plane and awesome dz at PNW over the big plane and mediocre dz at SDO any day.

I was visiting friends in Portland and had my rig with me, so I called around about making some jumps in the area. The other DZ that's near to Portland was weird on the phone, saying they would "try to fit me in among the tandems, but no promises." When I called PNW Skydiving Center they were really friendly on the phone, so I figured I'd give them a try. The clouds were a bit questionable, that day, but they didn't get annoyed when I called back a few more times before driving out. It took me less than 30 min to get to the DZ from NE Portland, which compared to our drives on the east coast felt like nothing at all.
When I there the clouds had closed in a bit (It was April), but the owners David and Natalie were still happy to take me and another fun jumper up for hop and pops. Their plane, a Cessna 207 I believe, was clean and had us up to 4k in no time (they said that even though they put the tandems out at 10k, they still take the fun jumpers up to full altitude). The grassy LZ was huge and recently groomed of potholes, and there were several good outs. I ended up making two very fun hop and pops while I was there.