Travel Oregon

Grant’s Getaways: Stub Stewart Freeride Trails

traveloregon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:54:51 +0000

There’s nothing like cruising along the miles of bike trails at Stub Stewart State Park on a warm and breezy fall day. Stub Stewart offers one of the friendliest state park trail systems you’ll ever explore. Now there’s something new to entice folks who prefer to roll on two wheels at a popular park when “freeriding” rules the day. They are a breed of cyclist who seeks a two-wheel challenge and a freedom in a bike riding recreation called “freeriding.” It takes split second timing on narrow trails at high speeds and the riders love to get “big air.”

Grant’s Getaways: Sauvie Island Wildlife Area

traveloregon — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:53:59 +0000

Each fall, a feathery invasion drops in to Oregon’s fields and wetlands as a quarter million Canada geese arrive on fixed wings with a rowdy chorus. On the Sauvie Island Wildlife Area, look closely and listen carefully for another bird species that stands head and shoulders above the crowd.

Grant’s Getaways: Fall Salmon

traveloregon — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:37:00 +0000

The signs of seasonal change are easy to see along Oregon’s rivers and streams where fall colors really light up the scene. But there’s another sign hidden in the water that you can’t see: salmon are coming home!

Oregon’s fall salmon fishing is big time outdoors recreation as thousands head to bays and rivers to catch big fish. That’s where we headed this week: where freshwater meets the ocean on a getaway to catch a salmon and then discovered new ways to cook the catch.

Grant’s Getaways: Bonney Butte Raptors

traveloregon — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:53:25 +0000

On a clear day, the view from Bonney Butte onto southern flanks of Mount Hood is brilliant and awesome.

Grant’s Getaways: Wine + Outdoor Adventure

traveloregon — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:41:23 +0000

Oregon is famous as hiking country and noted for its delicious wines too. In this week’s Grant’s Getaway, think of it as outdoor adventure with a delicious payoff; a new combination of off the main road hiking, travel adventure and wine tasting.

Grant’s Getaways: Oregon Redwoods

traveloregon — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:56:41 +0000

Oregon has a “Banana Belt?”

Oh yes, it’s true! A near tropical land, but you won’t find any pineapples, mangoes or papayas growing from the ground. When you travel to the Brookings area you will find soaring giant redwood trees and a wonderful collection of Oregon State Parks in this week’s “Grant’s Getaway.”

Grant’s Getaways: Deschutes Steelhead

traveloregon — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:25:18 +0000

When you travel east from Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley, be on the lookout for a “silver lining” in the high desert.

You may find it when you step aboard board a jet boat to travel up the Deschutes River and cast lures for silver-sided summer steelhead! For when you talk summer adventure, the Deschutes River is a rite of passage for anyone who calls the Pacific Northwest home.

Grant’s Getaways: Siltcoos Canoe Trail

traveloregon — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:32:04 +0000

There is something special about seeing the great outdoors from a river’s point of view. This week, we visit the Southern Oregon coast to explore a river that is filled with wonder and surprise as he paddles from freshwater to the ocean along the Siltcoos River Canoe Trail (pdf) in the heart of the Oregon Dunes. The outdoor life doesn’t get much simpler than a kayak, a paddle and a PFD (Personal Flotation Device.)

Grant’s Getaways: Wallowa Lake

traveloregon — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:11:08 +0000

This week, we travel to northeast Oregon’s “Swiss Alps” and Wallowa Lake State Park.

Wallowa Lake State Park is at the southern edge of Wallowa Lake near Joseph, Oregon. State Park Manager, Todd Honeywell, said that visitors will find plenty of recreation in a year round campground that offers more than 200 sites for tent or trailer. Wallowa Lake State Park’s boat launch is free for anyone to use and have courtesy docks are available for boats as well. In addition, there is no day use fee so you’re free to come in, sit on the beach, enjoy it or go fishing.

Grant’s Getaways: The Kings Are In

traveloregon — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:24:55 +0000

Nearly a million silver-sided king salmon will soon leave the ocean and swim up the Columbia River. It’s a huge run of salmon that’s hard for anglers to resist.

When the deck is stacked in your favor and you play your hand just right, the fishing game will often go just the way you like. We teamed up to troll for salmon where the river flows it’s widest: near Astoria where it is more than 5 miles from shore to shore. We motored along just upriver from fabled fishing landscape nicknamed “Buoy 10” where each August, the ocean fresh salmon schools move through the river on each incoming tide.

Grant’s Getaways: History Hikes

traveloregon — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:22:27 +0000

Today I want to take you on three “History Hikes” that provide some of the greatest stories ever lived in Oregon.

Great drama is easy to find in the great Oregon outdoors – if – you know where to look. In fact, there’s a compelling three-act drama right off Portland’s front step and each offers intrigue, romance and fascinating characters. Oregon’s greatest stories have larger than life characters, plus colorful and compelling settings and above all, Oregon stories that endure and connect with a passion that’s strong as ever.

Grant’s Getaways: Oregon Crawfish

traveloregon — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:11:32 +0000

At long last, summer is hitting it’s warmer stride in the great outdoors and if you are on the hunt for something different, consider this gas tank getaway along a small coastal stream called the Trask River. It is hiking, fishing and camping adventure off the beaten path in the nearby Tillamook State Forest – less than 80 miles from Portland.

Grant’s Getaways: Flying Fish

traveloregon — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:51:53 +0000

This week, I’ll show you the unique and speedy ways that “Flying Trout” reach hundreds of Oregon’s high lakes so to provide recreation for eager and adventurous anglers. Early morning – when air is cool and scenery quiet, stunning snow-capped Mt Hood is a marvel! But for one week every other summer, Oregon’s Cascade Mountain silence is broken when a Bell U1H1 (owned and operated by Columbia Basin Helicopters of Baker City) helicopter takes flight with a load of “flying trout.”

Grant’s Getaways: Disc Golf

traveloregon — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:53:16 +0000

There’s a new way to “play a round” in the great Oregon outdoors but surprise: you don’t need clubs, carts or golf balls to play this round of golf. And you just might need to yell “Fore” at the new and very first forest disc golf course set at Stub Stewart State Park.

Grant’s Getaways: Summer Fishing

traveloregon — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:42:43 +0000

This summer, there are hard to resist summer fishing opportunities that center on really big runs of really big silver-sided salmon and steelhead. Don’t pass this summer by – head outdoors and go fishing in Oregon’s rivers and estuaries where the cry is often heard: “Let’s Go Fishing.”

Grant’s Getaways: Wolf Creek Inn

traveloregon — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:12:30 +0000

In Southern Oregon, history runs as deep as the forested canyons where we hit pay dirt with a special getaway into Oregon’s gold mining region. This week, we visit the oldest operating hotel in the state in a region marked by “Forgotten Dreams and Hidden Treasures” at an Oregon State Park that makes you feel right at home called the Wolf Creek Inn.

Grant’s Getaways: Saddle Mountain

traveloregon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:22:07 +0000

On a clear day – even from a distance – Saddle Mountain steals the scene across the Oregon coast range: a distinct landmark that’s hard to deny! It is even harder for hikers to resist on an Oregon State Park Trail that will steal your heart.

Grant’s Getaways: Soft Sides of an Iron Giant

traveloregon — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:49:55 +0000

You can escape the hustle and bustle of city life on a gas tank getaway to the quiet side of the Oregon cascades. This week, we visit the soft sides of an iron giant along the Over the River and Through the Woods Scenic Byway near Sweet Home, Oregon.

Grant’s Getaways: Oregon Dunes

traveloregon — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:22:18 +0000

The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area covers forty-two miles from Florence to Coos Bay and it is an Oregon landmark for outdoor recreation. People come from all over to experience 32,000 acres of sand, forest, rivers and lakes.

Grant’s Getaways: Green Peter Lake

traveloregon — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:20:54 +0000

Oregon offers so many reasons to go on the road where the asphalt unwinds the state’s scenic secrets. As summer approaches, so does the time to travel into the Cascade Mountain foothills on a getaway that offers a camping, fishing and a backcountry byway at Green Peter Lake.