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Oregon Nature Trails - Discover Oregon, hike and walk on nature trails :
schedule for days
1-7
Experience the natural majesty of Oregon on our guided two week hiking tour. |
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Discover the beautiful
State of Oregon on foot, hiking along the majestic
Columbia River State Trail. The
Multnomah Falls are just one of the major waterfalls you
will get to see on many relaxed walks and nature hikes.
The first few days we will explore Northern and Central
Oregon with its diverse climate zones. From lush green
forests where wild Rhododendrons grow we reach
the high Wallowa Mountains, also called Oregon's little
Switzerland. A hike through the Eagle Cap Wilderness is
one of the fantastic adventures you will always
remember. Just within a few hours drive the landscape
changes dramatically, where the high desert with its most
spectacular colored hills, the Painted Hills, will
appear. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a
unique fossil site with an incredibly long period of
fossil deposits, some on display at the visitor center.
You will encounter
a lot of Pioneer history in the first few days of this Oregon
hiking tour.
Among highlights will be the
historic Pendleton woolen mills, a visit to the Mary
Hill Museum and a stop at the National Historic Oregon
Trail Interpretive Center. A ride on an original steam
train to Sumpter ends in a small "gold country" town that
features an original, huge gold dredge.
For
more details and information visit
Oregon Nature Trails
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Columbia
River Gorge - painting by Pablo Jacques,
Southwestern artist and
former guest on the Oregon Trail Dreams tour. More
paintings featured on following website at:
Pablo Jacques artist
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Day 1: Portland - Rose Garden
The tour leader and driver will meet the group at
the hotel lobby in
Portland
at 4:30pm. We then drive to the famous Portland
International Test Rose Garden for a visit. Later
we will eat dinner on the banks of the Willamette River.
The tour guides will share some important
information on the upcoming tour and hand out
travel documentation. |
Portland Rose
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Portland Convention
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Day 2: Columbia
River Highway - Multnomah Falls - Umatilla
Our journey begins in earnest along
the scenic historic Columbia River Highway where we
will stop for our first hike, the Columbia River
State Trail featuring magnificent views of the
mighty Columbia River. Later we will take a walk at
Multnomah Falls for some photo shots. Hike and
picnic at Trillium Lake near majestic Mount Hood.
We'll visit the Mary Hill Museum in Washington State
before reaching Umatilla for a night on the banks of
the
Columbia.
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Multnomah Falls
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Trillium Lake and Mount
Hood
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Day 3: Umatilla
- Pendleton - Joseph
Stop in Pendleton for a guided tour through a
historic wool mill, visit a native American center,
then enjoy the galleries in Joseph and explore on an
evening hike the wonderful surroundings of Wallowa
Lake. Night in Enterprise. |
Pendleton Wool Mills
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Joseph
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Day 4: Wallowa
Mountains - Sumpter
Our hike will lead through the Eagle Cap Wilderness
along the Chief Joseph Trail. The area boasts
beautiful wild flowers, mountain creeks and views
over Wallowa Lake and the Wallowa Mountains.
Alternatively, you can visit “little
Switzerland” on top of the 7500 ft. high Mount
Howard, reached by aerial tramway. Enjoy the views
and mountain flora. Next, we stop at the impressive National Historic Oregon
Trail Interpretive Center before taking a walking
tour to
see the historic wagon ruts of the Oregon trail,
preserved for over 150 years. In McEwen we board a
historic steam train (if running) and travel to
Sumpter, a tiny gold town featuring a monstrous gold
dredge. Evening in the tiny gold mining town of
Sumpter. |
Wallowa Lake Tramway
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Sumpter
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Day 5: Sumpter - John Day Fossil Beds NM - Bend
In John Day we stop for a
tour through the Kam Wah Chung Museum of Chinese
pioneer history.
The
highlight today is the John Day Fossil Beds National
Monument where we will take several shorter hikes to
see fossils and the famous Painted Hills of Oregon.
Here we are surrounded by a surreal landscape of
colored hills. We travel on to Bend, the largest
settlement of Central Oregon, for a two night’s stay
at a lodge with hiking trails to beautiful Deschutes
river right outside your motel doors. |
Painted Hills
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John
Day Fossil
Beds
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Day 6: Day
tour to Newberry National Monument - High Desert
Museum - Bend
Today, we hike through the fantastic Newberry
National Monument, home of the region’s largest
volcano. Trails follow an interpretive site leading
to a very rare volcanic Obsidian flow. Hike around beautiful, sparkling Paulina Lake.
After the picnic we visit the famous High Desert
Museum in Bend featuring a great display of
natural and cultural history of the Pacific
Northwest. The evening we will spend in Bend
with its galleries and good restaurants. |
Falls by Lake Paulina
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Bend's High Desert
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Day 7: Bend - Cascade Mountains - Yachats,
Pacific Coast
Our
journey leads westwards over the volcanic Cascade
Range with snow covered mountain peaks as high as
10000 feet. We hike along a picturesque mountain
lake fed by the springs of McKenzie River, over
lava flows and along beautiful waterfalls. In the
evening we arrive at the Pacific Coast and stay
for 2 nights at
a seaside resort with great sunset viewing. |
Mc
Kenzie River
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Sahalie Falls |
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Oregon Nature Trails Schedule - Part 2 |
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for reservations
& information
call toll free 1-877-538-5353
or local 541-535-2015
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