Well, here is another beautiful gravel ride along yet another river in a thick lush forest. This time we drove the short distance to Tillamook to ride what started as an out and back to “Lake Tahoe”, but turned into a lollipop type ride. On Google Maps when I zoomed waaaay in I could see …
Bayocean was a planned coastal resort town on the Tillamook Bay sand spit in Oregon, famously known as the “Atlantic City of the West.” It completely vanished into the Pacific Ocean due to man-made erosion. 19-year-old Thomas Irving Potter was vacationing at Tillamook Bay. The story goes that he shot a goose while target practicing …
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 to ensure all cheese made in the Tillamook Valley would be the same high quality. Each …
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 the Oregon Department of Forestry. The area was extensively burned in a series of forest fires between 1933 and …
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 heading north up to the start of the Cape Trail is closed so we drove the …