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Wife and I are planning on taking a trip to Oregon this summer, and we're just starting to figure out where we want to go. Mt. Hood and Crater Lake are "obvious" stops we're planning, but I'm not really sure what else or where we should stay around those areas. We do lots of long day hikes but not really overnight trips yet. Probably be there about a week total, and we'd be flying into Portland.
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Awesome, I'll add it to the list of possible stops. I've seen Three Sisters Wilderness mentioned a ton in Backpacker, is that something worth checking out for day hikers?glowing-fish posted:It depends on where you are coming from, and how much of the West you've seen before. If you are a newbie to the West, you don't have to go to spectacular name-brand hikes. Just drive a highway into the mountains and find a trailhead. We're coming from Illinois (  ), but we've spent a decent amount of time out west in California, Washington, Utah and Montana over the past few years. Our favorite hikes tend to be more of the panaromic types e.g. Highline Trail in Glacier NP, Skyline at Mt. Rainier. We usually put about 500-700 miles on a rental car on our trips, so we're good with driving all over to get to the different spots, too. If we wanted to check out the high desert or the Coast (loved the Olympic coast in Washington), any particular spots you'd recommend?
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Got back last week, fantastic trip, Oregon owns. Some great recommendations in here.meselfs posted:Well, you figured out your MoHo obligation apparently, but that mountain is big! So if you don't mind, some specific recommendations: McNeil Pt may have been the best hike of the trip. Definitely wouldn't have stumbled upon it without this tip, so thanks a bunch. We had planned on doing Ramona Falls the next day, but it was rainy on that side so we checked out Tamanawas instead--another solid recommendation. We stopped at Timberline when we first got there, but the place was overflowing with douchebag snowboarder bros so we just hit some of the other trailheads. Canna Happy posted:I think spending a day or two in the gorge is worth it. The eagle creek trail is p. tits for a nice day hike, but its best done early morning and during the week. You're going to spend a fair amount of time in the car if you drive all the way to crater lake and back though... Unfortunately our "gorge day" was a Saturday, but we were still able to find parking at both the Eagle Creek trail and Angel's Rest. As far as driving--yeah, we did about 1800 miles total in 11 days. Cerekk posted:Ecola State Park between Seaside and Cannon Beach has some pretty nice views. The southern half of the main coastal trail is best but the whole thing is worth doing. Cannon Beach is a nice town to visit in the summer though it will be packed and it is probably too late to find a place to stay. We stayed in Astoria our first night and Otter Rock our second night, so we checked out all those stops along the way. It was a little misty/cloudy at Ecola, but those coastal trails were still really nice. For our portion of the trip in Bend (which owns and I just need to convince my wife to move there now), we did some hiking in Deschutes and Three Sisters. Through a combination of early rain driving people away and hitting the trail head fairly early, we were able to do the Green Lakes trail in near solitude, including about 15 minutes totally to ourselves at the lake. Pander posted:I was from Illinois and kept coming out west to Yellowstone, Tetons, etc, and finally cut out the middle man and moved here. This may happen eventually. Worst case, our long-term retirement plan is to just gently caress about in the West with a smallish RV for months on end. We also got an extra day due to a last minute overlapping work trip, so we checked out Mt. St Helen's. Never really understood the full scale of the devastation there.
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