What we call the Cooks Meadow Loop by Mt Hood, OR is one of our favorite rides in the area. It combines two awesome singletrack trails into one loop. We climbed Lookout Mountain Trail and came down Cooks Meadow...
Lookout Mountain Loop
Summer in the west can be difficult. We managed to have clear skies and no smoke the entire time we were in Port Angeles and til the end of our stay in Cle Elum but it will be a...
Fort Stevens Park Ride
Fort Stevens State Park has a really nice network of paved paths with a short section of trail. We camped in the park and took one morning to ride around and explore. This was more of a meandering ride...
Tillamook Cheese, Cape Meares and Tunnel Beach
Tillamook Cheese In 1984 renowned Canadian cheesemaker Peter McIntosh brought his cheddar cheese-making expertise to Tillamook County, where he taught the locals all he knew, earning the nickname “Cheese King of the Coast.” In 1909 several small creameries joined forces...
Tillamook State Forest Mountain Biking
Tillamook State Forest trails are probably closer to the Forest Grove part of Portland than the actual town of Tillamook but we made the drive to check them out. The Tillamook State Forest is a 364,000-acre publicly owned forest managed by...
Cape Lookout
Cape Lookout Trail is a 5 mile roundtrip trek out to the tip of the cape. We are camping for a week at Cape Lookout Campground near Tillamook and did this hike one morning. The trail from the campground...
Cape Perpetua
As I mentioned before, there are so many features along the Oregon coast besides just sand and waves. One day we headed south from camp to check out a couple more coastal formations and we hiked up Cape Perpetua...
Newport, Oregon Mountain Biking
The coast of Oregon has never been known for it’s mountain biking but there is some. Newport Trail Stewards, AKA NEWTS have been busy. We rode the Big Creek Trails one cool morning. The trails are located on city...
Newport & Surroundings
The coast around Newport, Oregon has a lot to see and do. There are so many interesting formations to see and we played tourists. Yaquina Head Lighthouse First up was the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. We parked at the Interpretive...