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The Most Gorgeous Autumn Hike

An hour west of Eugene, you will find one of the most beautiful autumn hikes ever in the Siuslaw National Forest, called Sweet Creek Falls. Around every corner you will find another gorgeous waterfall. At the start of the trail is Homestead, and the trail continues about a mile to Sweet Creek Falls and another trailhead. This hike is around 2.2 miles round trip and gains just 350 feet of elevation. Recreation Fee Pass (Northwest Forest Pass) parking permits are required at the trailhead. They cost $5 per car per day

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Can we avoid becoming like them?

Alana Semuels for The Atlantic asks “Can Portland Avoid Repeating San Francisco’s Mistakes?”

“This city that prides itself on being different has been experiencing a problem all too common of late. It used to be unique, people say, a utopia where people could get tattoos and ride their bikes everywhere and just be weird. Portland was so affordable, as the slogan went, that young people went there to retire.

Then the city got “discovered,” people started flocking here, the tech companies came, and Portland became more expensive. Oregon has been the top destination for people to move to for three years in a row, according to United Van Lines.”

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Wacky Willamette Valley Detours

What is it that makes the Willamette Valley so … eccentric?

[…] Whatever the reason, here you’re encouraged to do what you like, to follow your bliss, to blaze your own trail.

Oregon has long produced and attracted dreamers and drifters, misfits and mysteries, so it’s no wonder that the Willamette Valley claims more than its fair share of the freaky and the far out.

Starting in the south, near the Willamette River’s origins outside Eugene and extending north toward Portland, here’s your checklist of must-see monuments to the mysterious. Read More