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| Travel Guide for Oregon If your travel itinerary takes you up the Pacific Coast, the sublime offerings of unspoiled scenery and unique chances to relax and recreate is undoubtedly something you can't miss in the God's Country of Oregon. Once a seemingly fake Promised Land for the nineteenth-century pioneers who arduously trekked all the way along the forbidding Oregon National Historic Trail, the Beaver State is the veritable mecca for today's nature lovers, vacationing families and outdoorsmen for whom getting in and around Oregon can be a breeze, given its wholesome international, national and regional air service network, comprehensive regional and local public transport system and miles of scenic drives, hiking trails, and cycling paths. A heroic pocket of American history, culture and landscapes, Oregon demands quite a bit of planning even if you are just scratching the surface of its huge diversity. Availing ahead of time the knowledge of all the best that the Beaver State has to offer surely makes your personal experience much more enjoyable. When it comes to landscapes, Oregon is by all accounts an amalgam of Americana. Bring in Columbia, a river as grand and mighty as the Mississippi, complete with riverine scenery, lifestyle and folklore. Wow at the 600-foot Multnomah Falls, the second highest in all of the US, and a string of other impressive waterfalls cascading down the mossy cliffs of the dramatic Columbia River Gorge. Warm up at Timberline Lodge after hitting the downhill skiing runs on Mt. Hood, the highest peak in Oregon. Drive along the Historic Columbia River Highway when the maple and Douglas fir showcase the fabulous change of color in the fall. Add a seacoast as rugged and spectacular as California's, with moist winds blowing in to temperate the climate. Stop at the liberal hamlet of historic Astoria for its annual Shakespeare Festival. Visit Tillamook for its Air Museum, the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and Tillamook Cheese Factory. Go whale-watching at Depoe Bay. Savor the succulent Dungeness crab cakes, Yaquina Bay oyster in Newport, along with the Oregon Coast Aquarium and Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center. Make a detour to Sand Dunes Frontier& Theme Park and Sea Lion Caves in Florence. Throw in a bit of rural diversity and covered bridges of New England along the Willamette Valley, Oregon's breadbaskets and the country's most up-and-coming wine countries. Learn the history of Oregon's early woolen industry and Jason Lee's Methodist Mission to Oregon in Mission Mill Museum in Salem, the state capital, along with other highlights such as Oregon State Capitol, Bush House Museum, John McLoughlin House, Oregon Garden and Old Aurora Colony Museum. Tour the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, and the campus of University of Oregon in Eugene. Round it out with the paring of fresh-caught Chinook salmon, homemade wine, and Pacific golden chanterelle at one of the local fine restaurants. Take a bit of the glaciated ruggedness of the Rockies in the Cascade Mountain ranges, the natural dividing line between western Oregon and Central Oregon. Take your pick of cross-country skiing trails in the Mount Hood National Forest. Hike the Crater Lake National Park, Oregon's only national park home to the deepest lake in the country. Raft the whitewaters of the Rogue River near Grants Pass. Explore the area's exceptional biological diversity and geologic complexity in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Enjoy a helping of great Red Lobster in Medford. Now blend volcanic landscape of Hawaiian style such as abrupt cone-like hills, cracked lava flows, and fossil beds, arid high desert of the Southwest with sagebrush juniper trees, stark rock formation, and fertile corn fields of the Midwest east of the Cascades. Take in the breathtaking vistas of the Cascades and the high desert at the Newberry Volcanic National Monument. Dig your precious finds in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Examine North America's deepest river-carved gorge in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. Complement with a cultural and recreational journey in Bend, to its High Desert Museum, Petersen Rock Garden & Museum, Deschutes Historical Center, Pine Mountain Observatory as well as World-class downhill and cross-country skiing on Mt. Bachelor, water-sports along the Deschutes River, and wilderness adventure in the Deschutes national Forest. Eventually, there needs to be a big beautiful city, one whose size would be better off walkable, yet its neighborhoods distinct and diverse. Oregon puts Portland, North America's "Best Big City" and the finest prize cultural and urban attraction in this part of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. With intense artistic, cultural, entertainment, gastronomic, historical and innovative fun and flavor, Portland is convincingly nicknamed "The City of Roses", "Munich on the Willamette", "Beervana", "Silicon Forest", etc. Stroll through the happening artistic Pearl District. Admire the voluminous collection of books at the Powell's City of Books. Enjoy old masters' work of art at the venerable Portland Art Museum. Spend an afternoon with your little ones at the Oregon Zoo. Interact with science at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Don't forget the fragrant trio of International Rose Test Garden, Portland Classical Chinese Garden, and Japanese Garden. Wherever you go in Portland, you can always slack around its wealth of microbreweries, clubs and coffee houses for a cup of espresso, microbrew or Point Noir, satisfy your palate with some of the finest restaurants in the Pacific Northwest, and live it up in one of the chic boutique Portland hotels. As places to stay go, Oregon hotels present all that diversity and good value. There is a variety of hotels in Oregon's bigger city centers, including the top-notch downtown Portland hotels, along with urban diversions like ethnic restaurants, entertainment venues, museums and parks. There are also numerous well-suited Oregon hotels near the state's user-friendly transportation network, such as Portland airport hotels near the Portland International Airport, and cheap Oregon hotels and motels to be found along the Historic Columbia River Highway. Hotels in Oregon's cozy secret hideaways can be quite as comfortable and elegant. Retreat to the spectacular Oregon Coast? Oregon coast hotels get you relaxed with heated pool and Jacuzzi, and get you animated with waterfront activities like whale-watching, deep-sea fishing, windsurfing and so on. Mountain resort hotels in Oregon welcome your escape into the Wild West. From full service spa treatment to cozy fireplaces, from fine local cuisine to fun alpine recreations like horseback-riding, golfing, rock-climbing, skiing and whitewater rafting, resort hotels in Oregon are where the ultimate in soothing luxury come in full fledge. Oregon travel guide is copyrighted. It cannot be copied. |
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