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.
There are certain foods you probably shouldn’t encounter when you’re hungry enough to make questionable decisions. A photograph of a perfectly browned bratwurst, perfectly nestled into a nest of sauerkraut and grilled onions is one of them. Because recently, as I was...
There are places in Oregon where you expect to feel transported somewhere else. Deep in the Wallowas, sure. Along a foggy stretch of the coast, absolutely. Lost in the Owyhee Canyonlands, 1000%. But then there’s Mount Angel, where you can be driving through perfectly...
There are plenty of places on the Oregon Coast where dinner is an event. You make a reservation, put on something slightly nicer than your beach hoodie, and settle in for a long meal. Bell Buoy of Seaside isn't really that kind of place. And that's exactly why we love...
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 strange little roadside places we seem to have tucked into every corner...
There is a moment on the drive into Wheeler County when Oregon seems to stretch out and exhale. The roads grow quieter, the hills take up more of the windshield, and the constant pull of the everyday world begins to lose its grip. Just outside Fossil, Wilson Ranches...
Some Oregon Coast trips are built around a hotel room and a restaurant reservation. This one is built around a campsite, a baited crab ring, and the possibility that dinner might come out of Nehalem Bay. I went to Kelly’s Brighton Marina last year, and I had an...
There are certain things you should probably know before venturing too far into rural Oregon. Keep your gas tank reasonably full. Don't blindly trust Google Maps when it tells you that the mysterious Forest Service road ahead will save you 11 minutes. Watch for deer....
There are two kinds of pizza eaters in this world. The first happily eats every last bite, crust included. The second works their way around the pie and leaves behind a sad little ring of abandoned crusts like the aftermath of some tiny carbohydrate massacre. (I'm not...
There are sandwiches you eat because you’re hungry. And then there are sandwiches that somehow become part of the road trip. Kauffman’s Market, along Highway 82, falls very firmly into that second category. Calling it just another "grocery store" would be a travesty....
By late September, Oregon starts doing half the work for a Twilight road trip. Evergreen hills turn nearly black beneath low clouds. The Columbia goes pewter. The Coast trades its summer brightness for salt spray, wind, and that silvery light that makes everything...
There are Oregon Coast camping trips where you pull into your site, unfold a couple of chairs and spend the evening staring at the ocean. And then there are camping trips where you climb into a boat, drop crab rings into an Oregon bay, haul up dinner and return to...
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...