Length: 70 miles / 112.0 km
Time to Allow: Allow 3 to 5 hours minimum. However, many travelers take a few days to experience all the sights.
Driving Directions
In order to travel the Byway itself, follow the keystone signs from Troutdale east to Dodson and from Mosier east to The Dalles.
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We strive to create unique tasting experiences with every new menu— as well as to prepare your traditional seasonal favorites extraordinarily.
This season, expect our best— fresh organic and chemical free ingredients with Cornerstone Cuisine’s “freestyle” interpretation of national culinary trends.
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Celilo Restaurant and Bar is the perfect venue for holiday parties and office gatherings. We can accommodate any size group and are happy to provide custom menus for events.
Enjoy our Pacific Northwest cuisine featuring fresh and
local ingredients. Relax with friends, family or coworkers in the warm atmosphere created by local artists and craftsmen.
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Next door to busy Multnomah Falls but usually overlooked by tourists, this delightful trail explores a cavern behind Ponytail Falls and then loops around Oneonta Gorge, a mossy chasm so narrow that Oneonta Creek fills it wall to wall. An optional 1.8-mile side trip leads to Triple Falls, where three plumes of water plunge 120 [...]
The Eagle Creek Trail is one of Oregon’s most spectacular paths, passing half a dozen major waterfalls. The trail is also an engineering marvel. To maintain an easy grade through this rugged canyon, the builders blasted ledges out of sheer cliffs, bridged a colossal gorge and even chipped a tunnel through solid rock behind 120-foot [...]
Like white lace, 120-foot Ramona Falls drapes across a stair-stepped cliff of columnar basalt. The very popular trail to the shady grotto of this Mount Hood cascade starts out in a mossy alder forest beside the Sandy River’s bouldery outwash plain. A loop trail to the falls follows a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Hollowed-out cedar logs serve as 8-foot-long bathtubs at this rustic, free hot springs. Even if you don’t plan to soak, the trail here is a delight, through a towering old-growth forest. Expect crowds on weekends and in summer.
Difficulty: An easy, 3-mile walk round-trip, with just 200 feet of elevation gain.
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Started in 1983 as the non-profit Portland Carousel Museum, the International Museum of Carousel Art was opened in 1999 in Hood River. The highlight of the collection is the items on permanent loan from Duane and Carol Perron. The museum in a non-profit and has more than 120 items on display with more than 800 [...]
Opened in 1997 the $21 million facility is designed to inspire appreciation and stewardship of the Columbia River Gorge and Wasco Country through collection, preservation, and interpretation of cultural and natural history resources. With more than 18,000 square feet dedicated to exhibits interpreting the cultural and natural history of the area there is plenty to [...]
