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.
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...
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...
Oregon didn’t wake up one morning and decide to abandon people with serious mental illness. The truth is harder than that. For generations, this state locked thousands of people inside sprawling institutions. Some residents received care they couldn’t find anywhere...
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 are certain things you expect to see while driving through northeast Oregon. Rolling wheat fields, old barns, cattle grazing beneath enormous skies, and eventually the jagged peaks of the Wallowa Mountains rising ahead of you. Image Copyright The Author A herd...