Explorations of stairs, back streets and roads less traveled in Portland, Oregon and the Columbia Gorge. Find my books on Amazon & at Portland-area booksellers.
An obscure rail trestle in Portland, Oregon becomes a destination
I wrote this story for Travel Oregon in April 2018. The original, with photos, is on TO’s site: here. Travel Oregon, aka the Oregon Tourism Commission, is a semi-independent agency created by the Oregon Legislature in 2003.
In 2014, Metro, the Portland-area regional government, purchased 33 acres of bottomland at Grant…
Gorge Town and Trail Pairings, Oregon
Yes, the Eagle Creek fire in 2017 has closed a lot of the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge. But not all of it! Spring…