There are normal fall festivals. You know the type. Apple cider. Corn mazes. Hayrides. Maybe somebody puts on a flannel shirt and spends twenty minutes choosing a pumpkin that somehow costs more than lunch. And then there's the Oregon fall festival where grown adults...
If you waited out the summer Multnomah crush, Tuesday, September 8, 2026 is the first full day without the Multnomah Falls (I-84) Timed Use Permit. The Recreation.gov season ran daily from May 22 through September 7, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., for private vehicles...
The first cool morning that makes you dig out a flannel is basically Oregon’s official invitation to fall. After that, the to-do list writes itself: a cider donut still warm enough to fog the bag, a hayride that smells like cut grass, a corn maze that takes longer...
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Paid partnership disclosure: Oregon Coast Aquarium is a paid partner of That Oregon Life. The Aquarium did not write this itinerary; That Oregon Life retains editorial control over the route, caveats and recommendations. The best Newport day with kids is not a stack...
There are plenty of reasons to wander an Oregon beach in late October. The Pacific gets moodier, fall storms begin rolling in with more frequency, and those gray skies and crashing waves somehow make a warm drink and a long walk on the sand feel even better. But this...
There are weekends on the Oregon Coast when the wind is something you plan around, and then there are weekends when the wind becomes the whole reason to go. From September 25 through 27, 2026, Lincoln City will turn its famously breezy shoreline into a playground of...
There are certain things in life that most reasonable humans are powerless against. Freshly baked cookies. Puppies with oversized paws. And baby goats. Especially baby goats. aarononearth Tucked into the green countryside of Gales Creek in the Tualatin Valley, about...
There are ordinary movie nights, and then there are the kinds of movie nights that feel like somebody climbed directly into your childhood memories, grabbed two battered VHS tapes from beside the television, and projected them onto an enormous outdoor screen. That is...
Long before Dolly Parton became one of the most recognizable voices in American music, she arrived in Eugene as a young country singer who was tired, homesick and struggling to make it through the road. It was February 1972, and Parton was touring with Porter Wagoner,...
If your October calendar currently consists of pumpkin patches, football, and wondering why Oregon suddenly decided it was winter at 7 a.m., we have something considerably louder to add to the schedule. Yelawolf is coming to Eugene. The Alabama-born rapper, singer,...
There is something about fall in Northeast Oregon that feels a little different from autumn anywhere else in the state. The mornings arrive colder, the mountains seem sharper against the sky, and pockets of brilliant yellow begin appearing along rivers, old roads, and...