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This Salem Museum Was Nearly Torn Down and Its Stained Glass Is Still Stunning
Deepwood Museum & Gardens offers original Victorian stained glass, free garden walks, and a remarkable preservation story in Salem, Oregon.
This Oregon Town Built a Street Straight Up a Cliff and You Can Ride It for Free
Oregon City’s Municipal Elevator offers a free ride, river views, and a remarkable history of land disputes, water power, and midcentury design.
Monsters Lurk Between the Cars at This Haunted Drive-In Theater Near Portland
Watching a horror movie gets considerably harder when you also have to keep an eye on the passenger window. At the Cinema of Horrors Drive-In Experience, costumed monsters lurk outside your car while a horror movie…
This Free Fall Faire Is Taking Over Downtown Sisters for Two Days in October
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.
This Small-Town Oregon Quilt Shop Has More Than 4,000 Bolts of Fabric
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.
Forget Pottery Class. This Oregon Blacksmith Lets You Forge Your Very Own Knife
There are plenty of ways to spend a day in Oregon. You can hike to a waterfall. Wander through wine country. Hunt for agates on the coast. Spend an afternoon poking around one of those wonderfully…
This Beloved Oregon Renaissance Faire Brings Charging Knights and a World of Medieval Magic
There is a stretch of summer in Oregon when a drive through Clackamas County can lead somewhere unexpectedly theatrical. One minute, you are following familiar farmland roads south of Portland. The next, you are hearing the…