Day Trips® from Portland, Oregon

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler, 3rd Edition

Kim Cooper Findling

No Planning Required!

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Portland, Oregon. Packed with full trip-planning information for hundreds of exciting things for kids, outdoor adventurers, and history lovers to do—all within a two-hour drive of the Portland metro area. Day Trips from Portland, Oregon helps locals and vacationers make the most of a brief getaway.

Go biking, hiking, kayaking—or swimming!—at Sauvie Island, or visit the recreational wonderland around the town of Silver Lake, where you can get a glimpse of Mt. St. Helens.

Do something (mildly) intoxicating: Go on a tasting tour at one (or more) of the 200 wineries in the Willamette Valley.

Do something historical: See people in period clothing reenact mid-19th-century daily life at Fort Vancouver, or 1920s farm life at Pomeroy Living History Farm in Yacolt.

Globe Pequot

Pages: 296 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-3765-0 • Paperback • March 2019 • $17.95 • (£13.99)

978-1-4930-3766-7 • eBook • March 2019 • $17.00 • (£12.99)

Series: Day Trips Series

Subjects: Travel / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest

Day Trips® from Portland, Oregon

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler, 3rd Edition

Paperback

eBook

Summary

No Planning Required!

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Portland, Oregon. Packed with full trip-planning information for hundreds of exciting things for kids, outdoor adventurers, and history lovers to do—all within a two-hour drive of the Portland metro area. Day Trips from Portland, Oregon helps locals and vacationers make the most of a brief getaway.

Go biking, hiking, kayaking—or swimming!—at Sauvie Island, or visit the recreational wonderland around the town of Silver Lake, where you can get a glimpse of Mt. St. Helens.

Do something (mildly) intoxicating: Go on a tasting tour at one (or more) of the 200 wineries in the Willamette Valley.

Do something historical: See people in period clothing reenact mid-19th-century daily life at Fort Vancouver, or 1920s farm life at Pomeroy Living History Farm in Yacolt.

Details

Globe Pequot

Pages: 296 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-3765-0 • Paperback • March 2019 • $17.95 • (£13.99)

978-1-4930-3766-7 • eBook • March 2019 • $17.00 • (£12.99)

Series: Day Trips Series

Subjects: Travel / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest

Author

Kim Cooper Findling is a fifth generation Oregonian and award-winning writer of stories about her beloved home state. She is the author of The Sixth Storm, co-authored with her daughter Libby; Bend, Oregon Daycations: Day Trips for Curious Families; Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir; and the forthcoming Day Trips to the Oregon Coast: Day Trips for Curious Families. For two decades, she has worked as a magazine editor, travel writer, author and teacher. See kimcooperfindling.com.

Day Trips® from Portland, Oregon

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler, 3rd Edition

Kim Cooper Findling

Day Trips® from Portland, Oregon

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler, 3rd Edition

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