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Oregon – A Great Place to Visit

Author: Jason
Oregon is a fantastic travel destination. Great cities such as Portland, Eugene, Ashland, and Bend are worth a visit, but the best places to visit are its landscapes and coastline. Oregon’s Pacific coast is not to be missed. It has many beautiful beaches, green hillsides, and light houses, but also fantastic coastal sand dunes, sea caves, and rock formations.
Oregon has multiple volcanoes over 10,000 feet and outstanding skiing. It is home to over a dozen ski resorts including Mt. Bachelor, which is a beautiful strata volcano. The view of Mount Hood, Oregon’s tallest mountain, from the Timberline Lodge is inspiring. Its most famous volcano imploded thousands of years ago, creating Crater Lake, one of the world’s most beautiful and deepest lakes. Crater Lake National Park is a destination that deservedly attracts visitors from all over the world.
If you enjoy fishing, rafting, or just taking in outstanding scenery Oregon is home to such great rivers as the Umpqua, the Willamette, the Deschutes, the Snake, the John Day, the Crooked, and of course, the Columbia, one of the world’s largest rivers. The Columbia Gorge, which bisects the Cascade Range and forms the border between Oregon and Washington, has beautiful waterfalls, vistas, and wind surfing. Hells Canyon, which is in northeast Oregon and separates Oregon from Idaho, is the deepest canyon in North America, deeper than even the Grand Canyon.
Eastern Oregon is much drier than the western side of the state but is still home to great destinations such as the Wallowa Mountains, Smith Rock State Park, and the Painted Hills – John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
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