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Re: Portland, OR ideas Posted on: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:29:29 -0800



Bill in Schenectady wrote:
>
> We will arrive in Portland on June 27 and leave Portland for Glacier
> National Park (and ultimate trip back home) on July 6. So that's ten days,
> including arrival and departure day.
>
> We don't intend to rent a car immediately, but would like to stay a couple
> of days in Portland without a car. After that, we'll do a slow loop around
> the Columbia River Gorge, with side trips to interesting areas. Figure that
> we'll rent a car for a week of the ten days.
>
> We'd like to do one day trip to the coast (ideas, anyone?), one day trip to
> Mt. St. Helens (I've always wanted to see that), and plan to do lots of
> hiking and other outdoor activities in the Gorge and surrounding mountains.
> We'd also like to take in a winery tour or two, do some whitewater rafting,
> and perhaps consider renting bicycles if there are some good off road
> bicycle trails.
>
>
The reproduction of Lewis and Clark's Fort Clatsop burned down awhile
back but I believe it has been rebuilt (near Astoria).
Cannon Beach represents the best of the Oregon Coast to me, and in
Tillamook you can visit the cheese factory. Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose
is in McMinnville.

In Portland itself, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) has
interesting exhibits including a Russian submarine. The Rose Gardens
will be beautiful that time of year. Also, I can easily spend a day at
Powell's Books on Burnside -- it's huge and wonderful.