TROUTDALE, Ore. — There's a "new" motoring adventure for visitors to Oregon.
It is the Mount Hood Scenic Byway — a 105-mile-long route from Troutdale, just east of Portland, past Mount Hood to the Columbia River Gorge and the orchards of the Hood River Valley.
The byway's network of highways and country roads has been in place for years, although now it's being pieced together — officially — as a collection of scenic and historic treasures.
April 28, 2005
MEGLER, Pacific County — Rex Ziak is driving west on Highway 401, within sight of the Astoria Bridge, when he stops his pickup truck by a thicket of alders on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
He peers into a dark tangle of trees and boulders, a gloomy, sunless scene, like something from an old black-and-white film.
February 3, 2005
OREGON CITY, Ore. Mayor Alice Norris is issuing a travelers' advisory:
Amtrak has added Oregon's first city as a stop on the Amtrak Cascades passenger-train route between Eugene, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C.
Service began April 16, with two stops a day here in each direction.
And Oregon City's 158-year-old McLoughlin House, a jewel of Northwest history, is being attached by the National Park Service to the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in neighboring Vancouver, Wash.
"We're a city awakening we have a story to tell," the mayor says.
April 29, 2004
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Let's say you've decided to leave Fifi and Fido at home while you escape for the weekend.
Let's say, after maybe an hour or two at your destination, you miss Fifi and Fido so much so you begin to question whether you ever should have parted.
Not to fret, Vancouver has remedies — they go by the names of Morgan and Mavis.
Morgan works the day shift at The Fairmont Waterfront, a harborside hotel in the city. And Mavis puts in her time at the company's uptown establishment, The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.
October 31, 2003
DUNDEE, Ore. It's going to be a Thanksgiving getaway with all the trimmings. Wine-lovers will pour into the northern Willamette Valley during Thanksgiving week for one of the Oregon wine industry's biggest events, the Thanksgiving Open House.
It is an annual trek, with almost all of the 75 or so wineries in the valley open for tastings Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 29-Dec. 1) of the long Thanksgiving weekend. The wineries will be closed Thanksgiving Day.
November 14, 2002
VANCOUVER You might want to pack walking shoes for your next visit to this history-rich corner of Southwest Washington.
Billed already by a national magazine as one of America's "most walkable cities," Vancouver is adding new trails for residents and visitors, with a special focus on the coming 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
City planners say the goal is to have a trail within a mile of every home here.
September 12, 2002
RICHLAND It's a grand irony.
There is an Eden-like stretch of the Columbia River here that exists only because it was zoned "off limits" in World War II as scientists developed plutonium for use in one of the atom bombs dropped on Japan.
The more than 50-mile-long treasure is Hanford Reach, one of America's newest national monuments.
July 11, 2002
PORTLAND - Remember the Burma Shave signs that used to entertain families along America's highways?
Statistics prove
Near & far
That folks who drive
Like crazy ...
Are!
Burma Shave
Have you ever touched a meteorite or had a close encounter with college football's Heisman Trophy?
You think the StairMaster at the health club is an instrument of torture? How would you like to try cleaning a carpet with a hand-pumped vacuum cleaner that punished 19th-century homemakers?
February 21, 2002
The Columbia River Gorge: open for winter.
It's the season when travelers hopscotch between Washington and Oregon for ski vacations, wine tastings and golf.
Golf in winter?
"Of course," says Genevieve Scholl of the Hood River County Chamber of Commerce. "We don't hibernate here."
Two highways Washington's curvy Highway 14 and Oregon's speedy Interstate 84 straddle the Columbia River Gorge for 85 scenic miles. From Portland and Vancouver east to The Dalles, Ore.
Anchor points for winter travelers:
January 24, 2002
PORTLAND -- The Rose City is going back in time to provide a new public-transportation system that makes touring the town even more of a treat -- in a city that was already a carless visitor's dream.
"Look, we have streetcars again," says Kay Dannen, community-relations manager for Portland Streetcar Inc.
November 22, 2001
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