Oregon is a beautiful destination for travelers who enjoy exploring the great outdoors. With its diverse landscape of mountains, forests, waterfalls, and coastline, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Visitors can hike through Crater Lake National Park, explore the Columbia River Gorge, and visit the famous Multnomah Falls. Oregon is also known for its vibrant cities, like Portland, where you can experience world-class dining, shopping, and entertainment. Whether you’re an avid outdoor enthusiast or a city dweller, Oregon has something to offer for your next adventure.
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 Department confirms the wayside is open, with no day-use parking fee...
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...
A 93-year-old woman in Kirkland, Washington, heard enough banging upstairs to make anyone’s imagination run wild. Was someone breaking in? Had a window been forced open? Was this the beginning of a true-crime podcast nobody asked for? When police arrived, they found...
When people on the West Coast start talking about the Big One, the conversation usually runs straight to California and the San Andreas Fault. It is the famous one. The one most of us grew up seeing in disaster movies and hearing about on the news. But Oregon has its...
Water Street gives you plenty of reasons to slow down, but Mac’s Place has a particularly good one waiting behind its green storefront. At this downtown Silverton restaurant, a meal can come with a seat beside Silver Creek, where the view draws your attention away...
That $79-a-night Oregon Coast rental can look like a screaming deal right up until you start doing the math. Maybe there is a cleaning charge. Then taxes. Maybe there is a booking or service fee. The cheapest rate only applies on a Tuesday in January. The property...
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, limitations and recommendations. Rain on the Oregon Coast is not a reason to...
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...
Wheeler is one of those Oregon Coast towns you can drive through a dozen times without ever really stopping. Highway 101 cuts right through the middle of this tiny community on Nehalem Bay, and with Manzanita just up the road and Rockaway Beach a few miles south,...
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...