Day Trips (R) from Portland, Oregon
Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler
3rd Edition
Published on 1. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-4930-3765-0 (ISBN)
Description
Need a day away to relax, refresh, renew? Just get in your car and go! This fourth edition of Day Trips from Portland, Oregon is your guide to hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover in your own backyard. With full trip-planning information and tips on where to eat, shop, and stop along the way, you can make the most of your time off and rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip. Explore places you never knew existed, many free of charge, and most within a two-hour drive of Portland.
Do something outdoorsy: Go biking, hiking, kayaking-or swimming!-at Sauvie Island, or visit the recreational wonderland around the town of Silver Lake, where you can get a glimpse of Mt. St. Helens.
Do something (mildly) intoxicating: Go on a tasting tour at one (or more) of the 200 wineries in the Willamette Valley.
Do something historical: See people in period clothing reenact mid-19th-century daily life at Fort Vancouver, or 1920s farm life at Pomeroy Living History Farm in Yacolt.
Do something outdoorsy: Go biking, hiking, kayaking-or swimming!-at Sauvie Island, or visit the recreational wonderland around the town of Silver Lake, where you can get a glimpse of Mt. St. Helens.
Do something (mildly) intoxicating: Go on a tasting tour at one (or more) of the 200 wineries in the Willamette Valley.
Do something historical: See people in period clothing reenact mid-19th-century daily life at Fort Vancouver, or 1920s farm life at Pomeroy Living History Farm in Yacolt.
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Series
Edition
Third Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Old Saybrook
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-3765-0 (9781493037650)
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E-Book
03/2019
3rd Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
€14.83
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Person
Kim Cooper Findling is a fifth generation Oregonian and award-winning writer of stories about her beloved home state. She is the author of Bend, Oregon Daycations: Day Trips for Curious Families and Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir. For two decades, she has worked as a magazine editor, travel writer, author and teacher. See kimcooperfindling.com.