Into the Bogs: Vincent Family Cranberries
LONG BEFORE CRANBERRY JUICE became a staple on supermarket shelves, cranberry farming was a part-time job that Oregon Coast families took up to supplement their incomes.
Explore Oregon
Suite Dreams
Any journey—be it epic or overnight—can be profoundly influenced by the places where we choose to sleep. Here is a look at some of the best places for this around Oregon.
From converted silos and a one-room schoolhouse to working ranches and vineyards—we explore twenty-four cool B&Bs that offer atypical style and comfort. With these lodgings, it’s all about the beds, the breakfasts and swapping stories at the table.
Winter Exploration on Oregon’s North-Central Coast: From Depoe Bay to Tillamook
The Oregon Coast is famous for winter storms. Visitors who brave the coast from November to February are typically there to hunker down in their oceanfront hotel rooms and watch Mother Nature’s grand joust between land and sea. Twenty-foot waves are not uncommon sights during these winter months.
Cache Me if You Can: Exploring Oregon’s secret and rapidly growing world of geocaching
My geocaching trial is off to an inauspicious start. After circling the block of my Bend neighborhood watching the virtual compass on my Android phone bounce from north to west and back to north, and finding myself no closer to the invisible X that marks the spot, I’m now blindly following the directions from my smartphone.
Turn “Black Friday” Red: Thanksgiving Weekend Wine Tasting
It’s the morning after Thanksgiving. A mix of post-feast cooking aromas, family and guests lingers throughout the house. Could there be a more perfect time to get out into the crisp autumn air, drive bucolic roads through towering firs and stop at wineries to drink some of Oregon’s – and the world’s – best vintages?
Oregon Travel: McMinnville
IN 1950, CREATURES FROM ANOTHER WORLD SELECTED McMinnville, Oregon, planet Earth as a place of curiosity and research. Their vehicle was nearly thirty feet in diameter and shaped like a flying saucer or a garbage can lid. If it weren’t for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trent out feeding the rabbits on their farm that day, this foray would have gone unobserved by humans, and the saucer pilots would have quietly collected data before reporting back their observations.
Cottonwood Canyon State Park
Differing from the wooded mountains of many Oregon state parks, Cottonwood Canyon is an 8,000-acre view into Eastern Oregon’s grasslands. The lower John Day River winds through the park, where wildlife viewing is abundant. Opened in September, the park is set up to be a hub for rafting, fishing, mountain biking, horse treks and backpacking. Day-use and camping facilities will be completed by December.
Road Reconsidered: Tracing Terroir and Local Culture on Highway 18
Highway 18 may be a utility corridor carrying motorists from the mid-Willamette Valley to the Oregon Coast and back, but there are lots of gems to discover, especially if you divert onto Old 18. If you take this less-traveled road, you’ll find, among other things, that the natural resource industry of the old order is holding its place alongside the next-gen resource based industry. Oregon’s agricultural transformation from timber to grape is nowhere more evident than here.
Kiyokawa Family Orchards
Kiyokawa Family Orchards
