Mt Hood and the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
The Columbia River Gorge and the Cascade Mountains evoke the grandeur of the American Pacific Northwest better than just about anywhere else. Flowing 1,200 miles from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific, the 80-mile segment that runs along the Washington-Oregon border is so crammed with beauty that it is hard to appreciate it in a single visit. We arrive at the Gorge, having driven from the southern Oregon coast, through the Central Cascades to Bend and north to Mt. Hood….