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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 his website at:
www.pablojacques.com
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Day 1:
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 guide will share some important
information on the upcoming tour and hand out
travel documentation. |
Portland Rose
Garden |
Portland Convention
Center |
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Day 2: 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 stop at Multnomah
Falls for some photo shots. Here we will hike to
the beautiful hidden Wahkeena Waterfalls. A stop
at the Bonneville Dam provides insight into the
major hydroelectric power station of the Northwest. The next
two nights we stay in Hood River on the banks of
the
Columbia.
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Columbia River
Highway
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Multnomah Falls
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Day 3: Today,
we enjoy the unspoiled wilderness within Mount Hood National Forest. We start with a hike
around beautiful Mirror Lake, where nearby Mount
Hood is reflected in the deep blue waters. In the
afternoon we hike through Rhododendrons and across
foot bridges to enjoy the photogenic Ramona
Waterfalls. If time allows we will visit the
historic Timberline Lodge nestled on the flank of
Mount Hood. |
Mount Hood N.F. |
Timberline Lodge
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Day 4: We
drive along the beautiful Columbia River Gorge
until we reach a special place in the middle of
desert: the Maryhill Museum with its unique
collection of art including some sculptures by the French
master Rodin. Then, we will walk through vineyards
and stop at a nearby winery for some great
Washington
wine tasting. In the afternoon we participate in a
walking
tour through a historic wool mill in Pendleton. We
spend two nights in
Enterprise, a small wild
west town featuring many nice galleries. |
Columbia River
Gorge
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Maryhill Museum
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Day 5: 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.
In the
afternoon you are free to visit “little
Switzerland” on top of the 7500 ft. high Mount
Howard, reached by aerial tramway. Enjoy the views
and mountain flora. |
Wallowa Lake Tramwa
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Wallowa Lake
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Day 6:
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 and travel to Sumpter, a tiny
gold town featuring a monstrous gold dredge. We
stay in wild west style log cabins (with
restroom/shower) in Sumpter. |
The
Oregon Trail |
Sumpter |
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Day 7:
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 the doors. |
Painted Hills
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John
Day Fossil
Beds |
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Oregon Nature Trails Schedule - Part 2 |
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& information
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or local 541-535-2015
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