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…
If you’re looking for a hike within 90 minutes of Portland that takes you to one of the best views of snow-capped Mt. Hood that you’ll find anywhere in Oregon, you’re in the right place. Tom, Dick, and Harry Mountain is one of our favorite hikes near Mt. Hood, and we’ve done it several times…
It’s no secret that Oregon is paradise for waterfall lovers. Between the waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge and the ten we’re about to talk about in Silver Falls State Park, we’re fairly certain that you could put Oregon head-to-head with any other state in terms of beautiful waterfalls and it would easily win. If…