Take a Road Trip Through Oregon’s Treasure Trail
“I set out with visions of gold dancing in my head.”
“I set out with visions of gold dancing in my head.”
How Oregonian are you? Willing to brave gale-force winds and hard-driving rain to visit the Coast? Willing to spend a night with hearty people who are accustomed to coastal flooding? Ok with drives through murky woods?
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.
This highway is the stuff of ballads. The Cascade Lakes Highway winds south from Mt. Bachelor to Highway 58 and just to the east of the ridge dividing wet Oregon from dry Oregon. It takes you just as close as you can get to the great outdoors and true wilderness.
Highway 30 runs from the industrial parks of west Portland to the beautiful coastal community of Astoria.
Shopping, dining and taking it all in takes patience and a flair for the unusual in Portland’s Northwest and The Pearl.
Eons of spewing volcanoes and cataclysmic floods created the Columbia River Gorge, where Oregon’s grandest river rolls through towering cliffs of basalt. Even Congress agreed this place was special. Twenty-five years ago, it named the Columbia River Gorge the country’s first National Scenic Area, protecting the Columbia’s most dramatic stretch, the eighty-five miles between the Sandy and Deschutes rivers.
Wake up your recondite historian and geologist and the events of Highway 20 are perhaps Oregon’s most interesting combination of geology, and Native American and pioneer culture in one stretch.
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