If you’ve read our guides before, you’ll know that one of our favorite things about living in Portland is that we’re within a short drive – roughly 90 minutes – of the Pacific Ocean and the mountains (the Cascades, mostly). Within 90 minutes, you can get from Portland to alpine terrain with up-close-and-personal views of…
Olympic National Park is situated at the northwest corner of the contiguous United States, and is the most diverse national park in the Pacific Northwest. And, to be honest, it’s not that close. Within the boundaries of the park, you’ll find crystal-clear alpine lakes backed by snowy peaks, rocky beaches being pounded by the intense…
Want to hike to a basin full of some of the most gorgeous alpine lakes in the region? What about a beach hike out to a point where you can search for wildlife in tide pools and admire the towering sea stacks that seem to be exploding out of the ocean? There aren’t very many…
As you’ll find plastered all over this website, one of the things we love about living in Portland is the fact that, within 90 minutes, you can either be on the beach at the Pacific Ocean, or at the base of the highest peak in Oregon. What we don’t often say is that when you…
We were lucky enough to spend two whole months on a road trip around Oregon a few summers ago after we had to scrap our international travel plans, and it taught us an important lesson: you don’t need to fly halfway around the world to find wild and beautiful places – sometimes they’re right in…
Olympic National Park is one of three incredible national parks in Washington State, and is by far the most diverse and interesting of the three. The park boasts rocky alpine zones, perpetually moist rainforests, rugged coastal beaches, and more. There are only a few places in the world where you can spend the first half…