Interesting

People may not realize there's a castle in Southwest Portland Oregon, looming up over the landscape like one might expect from a fairytale. The stone castle home is beautiful on the outside and luxurious on the inside. The best part? It's an Airbnb and you can stay the night here. SW Portland's...

The Lodge at Hot Lake Springs, formerly known as the Hot Lake Hotel (hit the link here to read our original extensive writeup), is once again open to the public. From the very beginning of the hotel opening, for reasons not entirely known, the building faced the bluff rather than the lake. The...

Rockaway Beach has a secret. Every once in a while the shifting sands wash away just enough to reveal something elusive: the 100-year-old shipwreck of the Emily G. Reed. This ghostly wreck usually hides under the sand, sometimes going decades without surfacing to remind people of the day it ran...

Here's something you don't see every day, which I found particularly interesting. Oregon Coast Beach Connection, a fascinating site that covers anything and everything that's coast-related, recently reported on some rare and surreal rock formations, which have come to be known as as "red towers"...

The Portland Oregon we know today is much changed from Portland of the 1970's. Back then it was a contrast in conservative ways, and a growing youth culture focused on self fulfillment. It was a time when female sportswriters were still denied entry to press boxes at Civic Stadium because of their...