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One of Oregon’s Biggest Pumpkin Festivals Opens Today With 30+ Activities and Cider Donuts
If your idea of a pumpkin patch involves quietly wandering through a field, choosing one respectable orange pumpkin, and heading home before lunch, Bauman’s is about to dramatically complicate your plans. Bauman’s Harvest Festival officially opens…
Saddle Up and Stay the Night at This 9,000-Acre Oregon Ranch Near Fossil
Stay on a 9,000-acre Oregon cattle ranch near Fossil, where horseback rides, a country breakfast, and wide-open high desert country shape the getaway.
You Can Camp, Catch Crab, and Have Your Catch Cooked at This Oregon Coast Marina
I visited Kelly’s Brighton Marina last year and discovered one of the North Coast’s best hands-on getaways: camp beside Nehalem Bay, rent the crabbing gear, and have your legal Dungeness catch cooked at the marina.
This Oregon Coast RV Park Lets You Rent a Crab Boat, Catch a Dungeness Dinner, and Have It Cooked for You
There are Oregon Coast camping trips where you pull into your site, unfold a couple of chairs and spend the evening staring at the ocean. And then there are camping trips where you climb into a…
The Ultimate Fall Waterfall Guide to Oregon
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.
Southbound I-5 Through Portland Closes Tonight for Five Weeks. Here’s What Drivers Need to Know
If you’re heading south through Portland anytime over the next several weeks, your usual route is about to look very different. Beginning Friday night, September 11, the Oregon Department of Transportation will shut down southbound Interstate…
Rodeos, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Giant Kites Are Taking Over Oregon This September
September in Oregon is apparently refusing to go quietly. Summer may technically be winding down, but somebody forgot to tell the state's event calendar. The rest of the month is packed with rodeos, giant coastal festivals,…