I tried searching the travel forum, but only came up with a couple mentions. Wife and I will be heading to Oregon in a few weeks. Starting the trip in Cascade Locks where her and her brother are running a race. I'll probably kill time at breweries in that area while they run (its a long ass race). The day after the race, we'll drop my brother-in-law off at PDX and head to the coast. We will be staying in the Cannon Beach area. Trip is shortly after our anniversary and we'll be kidless, so we are treating those couple days as an anniversary trip. Looking for suggestions on things to see/do, and some restaurant recommendations.
We are very active and outdoorsy generally. We like craft beer and red wine. Wife will likely be hobbling around a bit, so strenuous hiking will probably be out, but still interested in moving around and hopefully seeing some stuff. Wife has never been to Oregon at all. I've been up there quite a bit, but not for probably 15 years and I've not been up to Cannon beach. Though I've seen a big chunk of the Oregon coast.
Added note, my wife's cousin lives in Eugene (i've been there a couple times), so we might pop down there to see her, then drive out to the coast and work our way up to Cannon Beach. I've been on the Oregon coast all the way up to Lincoln City, but I was on a bicycle and it was over multiple days, so have no concept of how long that drive would be. I know it's pretty, but I not sure if we want to potentially spend the entire day driving.
Also open to any suggestions of things along the way that might be interesting since we'll cover a bit of ground. In the Columbia River Gorge, we'll obviously see Multnomah Falls (and several others). Her race actually goes through there on the trail.
We are very active and outdoorsy generally. We like craft beer and red wine. Wife will likely be hobbling around a bit, so strenuous hiking will probably be out, but still interested in moving around and hopefully seeing some stuff. Wife has never been to Oregon at all. I've been up there quite a bit, but not for probably 15 years and I've not been up to Cannon beach. Though I've seen a big chunk of the Oregon coast.
Added note, my wife's cousin lives in Eugene (i've been there a couple times), so we might pop down there to see her, then drive out to the coast and work our way up to Cannon Beach. I've been on the Oregon coast all the way up to Lincoln City, but I was on a bicycle and it was over multiple days, so have no concept of how long that drive would be. I know it's pretty, but I not sure if we want to potentially spend the entire day driving.
Also open to any suggestions of things along the way that might be interesting since we'll cover a bit of ground. In the Columbia River Gorge, we'll obviously see Multnomah Falls (and several others). Her race actually goes through there on the trail.