The Portland Winter Light Festival (PDXWLF) returns for its 10th anniversary, lighting up the cold winter nights February 7 – 15, 2025. This year, Mayer/Reed is shedding a light on the World’s Smallest Park with our installation, Chasing Rainbows. 

Chasing Rainbows is a celebration of the history of Mill Ends Park and an exploration of its future. In 1946, journalist Dick Fagan gazed out his office window and envisioned a leprechaun colony inhabiting a hole meant for a utility pole – sparking a newspaper column, a Guinness World Record and decades of lore.  

We see a future where the end of the rainbow is found, right here at Mill Ends Park. Housed within a technicolor beacon glowing softly in the night, a kaleidoscopic portal reveals an infinite treasure hidden in plain sight. Peer inside for a glimmer of what lies within. Can you see the unseeable? 

You’ll find Chasing Rainbows illuminated nightly during PDXWLF 2025 from 6pm-10pm.