Salt leaching methods offer a number of advantages in generating porous materials for tissue engineering application. The methods are simple and reproducible, and allow a wide range of pore sizes to be generated. The focus of this research was to develop and evaluate a salt leaching technique for generation of porous PEG hydrogels. To our knowledge, salt leaching methods have not been previously applied to PEG hydrogels, likely due to the use of aqueous solvents. Examples are provided to show that this method can be used to generate PEG hydrogels with interconnected pores. For the conditions described here, mean pore size ranged from 156mm to 826mm and porosity from 30% to 74%. The porous hydrogels supported cell adhesion when incorporated with ECM adhesion peptides. These materials can be used to examine the influence of pore size and po-rosity on cell behavior and function of engineered tissues.