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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…
Hug Point Is Open Again Near Cannon Beach: What’s Fixed, What’s Temporary, and When to Go
Hug Point is open again. That sentence alone would have been enough for a lot of us after a closed spring break and a summer spent driving past barricades on Highway 101. Oregon Parks and Recreation…
This Wildly Fun Oregon Fall Tradition Sends Costumed Racers Across a Lake Inside Giant Pumpkins
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…