The Oregon Experience

Apologies for the lack of Oregon Travel posts here at the Oregon Experience.   I've been very busy with other online project such as these:

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Travel and History Blog
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For Oregon Travel information please check out Oregon Travel at Online Highways and the Oregon Coast Travel site.

Travel Oregon

Oregon's Tourism information office is called "Travel Oregon" and they have a lot of great resources available to you to help plan your Oregon trip.

The website is here
The Travel Oregon blog is here
Order vacation planning guides here

Oregon Coast Official Websites

The best way to plan your trip to Oregon is to surf several websites, order printed information that many of those sites offer, and if you are like me keep cutting and pasting information into my own personalized trip guide.

The official Oregon Travel website is Travel Oregon from the Oregon Tourism Commission click here for website .

The Oregon Coast makes this job a little more interesting because there are literally dozens of excellent resources, many of which try to cover the entire coast.

The most comprehensive of the Oregon Coast sites is the Mile by Mile Guide to the Oregon Coast combined with the Oregon Coast Travel blog. Both come from the publishers of Oregon Coast Magazine and the Mile by Mile Guide to the Oregon Coast which is the most popular guidebook in all of Oregon.

Although I will cover some Oregon Coast themes here at The Oregon Experience, look to the Oregon Coast Travel blog for the best coverage of the coast including travel tips and news.

Other good resources for the Oregon Coast are OCVA - The Oregon Coast Visitors Association new "People's Coast" website.

Note: Please don't ask me to explain how in the world somebody came up with "The People's Coast" after spending a small fortune in consulting fees.

OK, you talked me into it. Expensive firms routinely convince gullible clients that elite "branding" is more effective than real marketing. This is because real marketing has measurable results and returns on investment, where "branding" campaign failures can easily be covered up. Sorry - but this stuff bugs me.

The Oregon Experience - Welcome!

Welcome to Oregon!

This is the blog for "The Oregon Experience", an insider travel tips website that will help you plan and enjoy your trips to Oregon, a state we honestly feel offers more incredible travel experiences than you'll find in any other part of the USA - in fact more great travel experiences than you'll find in most entire countries.

Oregon is uniquely qualified to offer hundreds of miles of unspoiled Pacific coastline, the magnificent peaks of the Cascade Mountain Range, raging rivers like the Rogue, Columbia, and Klamath, the nation's finest and most extensive lush forestland with pristine mountain lakes and streams teaming

It's no wonder that Oregon is home to more miles of National Scenic Byways than any other region in the USA.

The Oregon Experience lies in the magnificent pounding surf of the Oregon Coast to the sparkling blue waters of Crater Lake National Park to the underground adventures at Oregon Caves National Monument. From the tide surging in to Devil's Churn at Cape Perpetua to the rushing rapids of the Rogue River to the spectacular waterfalls of the Umpqua Valley and along the Columbia River Highway (I'll have a lot of pictures from there in a few weeks after my trip North to spend some time in the Columbia River Gorge). From the world-class Shakespearean theater in Ashland to Portland's quiet sophistication - big city amenities with small town charms.

Oregon is a masterpiece of nature, history, and culture. Native Americans have lived here for tens of thousands of years and you can still share those remarkable cultural traditions at gatherings, Pow Wows, Salmon BBQs, exhibitions and Museums like Warm Springs Four Rivers, the Tamastslikt.