Category: Oregon

Destinations Oregon Coast Sea Lion Cave Sea Lion Caves is nature's home for wild sea lions and a variety of sea birds. The vast cavern with the roar of the great Steller sea lions, the cries of the wailing birds, and the restless surge of the ocean into the cave...

Destinations Oregon Coastal Region Cannon Beach & Ecola State Park Peter Iredale Sea Lion Cave

Destinations Oregon Coast Peter Iredale Sailing from Salina Cruz, Mexico on September 1906, The Peter Iredale was bound to Portland, Oregon. The journey up the coast was unremarkable until the night of October 25, when Captain H. Lawrence sighted the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse at 3:20 am. The crew altered course...

Destinations Oregon Coast Cannon Beach & Ecola SP This part of the oregonian coast has something sophisticated and upscale comparable with the californian place of Carmel and 17-mile-drive and at the same time the wild and rough scenery that you might be more used to see in the isolated parts...

Destinations Oregon John Day Fossil Beds NM Sheep Rock John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is an area of active research. Fossils are continually being collected from all three units (Sheep Rock, Clarno and Painted Hills). Visitors may view a laboratory at the Sheep Rock Visitor Center in which specimens...

Destinations Oregon John Day Fossil Beds NM Painted Hills Painted Hills Unit is the most spectacular site on the entire John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The area is relatively small, but jaw dropping beautiful and different from anything you might have seen before. The place is definitively worth a...

Destinations Oregon John Day Fossil Beds NM Clarno Of the three separate units of the John Day Fossil Beds NM, the Clarno Unit is the most out-of-the-way and the smallest. Sited just a few miles east of Clarno - basically just a bridge over the John Day River and a...

Destinations Oregon John Day Fossil Beds NM John Day Fossil Beds NM, located northeast Oregon, within the John Day River, is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the region between 44-7 million years ago. The monument consists of three geographically separate units: Clarno...

Destinations Oregon Crater Lake National Park Crater Lake is an incredibly blue lake that is hard to describe. Seeing pictures of it before you go there will only make you think that it is fake but one you stand at the rim and look down there will be only one...

Destinations Oregon Columbia River Gorge Multnomah Falls is a waterfall on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, located east of Troutdale, between Corbett and Dodson, along the Historic Columbia River Highway. The falls drops in two major steps, split into an upper falls of 542 feet (165 m)...