While we love our adopted home state of Oregon and places like Mount Rainier and Olympic National Park, if you ask us to name our favorite hiking destination in the Pacific Northwest (the west coast?), both of our minds go straight to North Cascades National Park (and the Mount Baker Wilderness, too). Why do we…
Mount Baker has become one of our favorite places in the Pacific Northwest. It has all of the alpine splendor that you find in places like Mount Rainier (which we also love – here are our guides!), but with a tiny fraction of the crowds because of its location tucked away along the Canadian border….
Here’s the short version of this entire guide: this hike is a nonstop showstopper for a relatively moderate effort, and immediately jumped into our list of favorite trails in the Northwest. If you can handle the distance and elevation, you should absolutely do it! In the car on the way down, we were talking about…
It is no exaggeration to say that, until recently, the Saddle Mountain trail was high on our “to-do” list of Oregon hikes for approximately the entire time we were aware of its existence. Well known for both its proximity to Portland and the stunning views from the top, the only problem with the hike to…
One of our favorite things about Portland is its green spaces, particularly the parks on the western edge of the city. There are not very many places where huge swaths of desirable land within city limits have been set aside and protected, and Portland has several of them in its western hills. These parks, which…
Tucked away at the northwest corner of the contiguous United States on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, you’ll find what might be the most diverse national park in the entire country. From its rugged rocky beaches to the rare coastal temperate rainforests and high alpine landscapes, you’ll find a staggering diversity of ecosystems within…