If you are passing through Redding, California on a family road trip, make sure and plan a stop at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. Turtle Bay is a 300-acre complex featuring a museum, botanical gardens and arboretum, and one of the…
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Known as one of America’s top white water rafting destinations, The Rogue River is simultaneously serene and invigorating. Starting near Crater Lake, the river flows mostly westward for 215 miles until it reaches the Pacific Ocean. We started our rafting…
As the crow flies, Mt. Angel, Oregon is 18 miles northeast of Salem. A rural community of about 4,000, Mt. Angel is perhaps best known for its German heritage and Catholic influence. Mt. Angel Abbey Tucked among the rolling, fertile…
Steve Roland “Pre” Prefontaine would have been 65-years-old this year. An all-American middle and long-distance runner born in Coos Bay, Oregon and graduate of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Pre remains a local legend in his home state. Pre once held the…
Before moving to Oregon I spent some time in Pacific Northwest on various business trips, visiting friends, and long weekends in Seattle and Portland (before kids and just because). So, needless to say, I had a fairly good idea moving…
Kah-Nee-Ta Resort & Spa is a popular family-vacation destination in Central Oregon’s Warm Springs Reservation. Less than a two hour drive from Portland and an hour north of Redmond, our family celebrated the start of summer vacation with a three…