When we visit Portland, Oregon, we usually stick to the downtown core with trips to outlying neighborhoods to visit friends. In fact, early on with Bergen when he was a baby, and then a toddler, we took the train down from Seattle and didn’t even use a car! With Portland’s advanced public transportation system, this is easily accomplished.
A recent article in the Seattle Times led us to expand our Portland area horizons though. There is more to the area than the city itself, and we thought it was high time we incorporate a road trip to the Columbia River Gorge. Even with its close proximity to Portland, we’d never traveled to this area famous for its amazing waterfalls, wind surfing, and GORGEous views of the Columbia River cutting through the rocky landscape.
There is much to do and see in this region, and with a day trip (and 2 young children), we barely scratched the surface. This of course means we are already dreaming about return trips. In the meantime though, here’s what our adventure along the Columbia River Gorge entailed, all of which we highly recommend!