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Dear Irene in downtown Bend serves seasonal dishes and cocktails in a colorful dining room near Drake Park, exclusively for guests 21 and older.
Weston’s Long Branch Café serves breakfast in an 1870s mercantile, with a history of fire, restoration, and small town resilience.
Walk the crater rim at Lava Butte near Bend, explore the ancient lava field, and plan your visit with clear details on summit access, fees, trails, and seasonal services.
Just your typical overcast Willamette Valley landscape. A rural, mid-century farm scene, the middle ground dotted with trees. Foggy hills in the distance. A wooden telephone pole to the right of the frame with power lines strung across the backdrop. An outbuilding or...
Sisters Harvest Faire returns October 10 and 11 with handcrafted gifts, Dry Canyon Stampede, food, and free admission. Here’s how to make a day of it downtown.
A conversation over coffee grew into a Merrill quilt shop with more than 4,000 bolts of fabric, hands-on classes, and three decades of Klamath Basin history.
An exquisite California burger, a warm welcome, and great service made my recent visit to Dillon’s Grill in Prineville a pleasure.
There’s an old photograph of Springfield that doesn’t look quite real at first. The Willamette River bends through the frame. Steel bridges span the water. Beyond them, houses scatter across a mostly open hillside, where the trees are thinner and the town hasn’t yet...
There are sandwiches you eat because you’re hungry. And then there are sandwiches that somehow become part of the road trip. Kauffman’s Market, along Highway 82, falls very firmly into that second category. Calling it just another "grocery store" would be a travesty....
Where to find Oregon’s best fall waterfall hikes in 2026, with peak-color timing, trail distance, difficulty, closure notes and the right hike for every kind of autumn day.
Multnomah Falls timed entry ended September 7, 2026. Here’s what actually changes for Exit 31 parking, what doesn’t, how lodge restrooms still work during renovation, and which nearby Gorge falls make better backups than a wishful empty-lot assumption.
Three California hikers were rescued from Mount Shasta after relying heavily on AI for route and packing advice. Here is what officials say hikers should learn.