Rosa Parks station was renamed from its original and actually descriptive name of Portland Boulevard on February 4, 2009 as every city transit system tries to honor this transit civil rights leader. The stop is in the median of International Avenue with two offset side platforms so trains stop after they cross the intersection with Portland Blvd. Each platform has an additional entrance at its opposite end across International Avenue. The platforms each have two canopies and artwork is by Native American artists Lillian Pitt, Ken MacKintosh, Rick Bartow and Gail Tremblay with wraps around the columns, small sculptures are on the ends of the shelters. There are also guardrail panels of salmon and thunderbird (Public Art on MAX Yellow Line). The only information on Rosa Parks is one of the panels on a platform information panel.
All photos taken on 19 October, 2011