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Voodoo Donuts in Portland

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5 Reviews This is a weather related tip and thus doesn't fit into any of the currently available VirtualTourst categories: Portland has a well-earned reputation as a place where it rains a lot. The local...

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3 Reviews In this day and age, self service is the norm. But not in Portland, at least not when it comes to gasoline. Oregon is only one of two states in the US where you cannot pump your own gasoline. In 2003,...

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Blackberries for everyone Portland

2 Reviews Blackberries are everywhere in the Portland area, and to a lesser extent all over the northwest. The most common type was introduced and is now considered an invasive species because they take over...

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Rose Queen Portland

2 Reviews The Rose Festival Court is comprised of 14 outstanding women who are selected from 14 Portland-area high schools by their respective student bodies. Each court member represents her school throughout...

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Voodoo Donuts in Portland

by Roadquill

An observant traveler departing the Portland Airport may notice any number of fellow travelers carrying boxes of donuts home from Portland. In fact, we eschewed the box, but did bring some of the tasty and creative, flavorful gutt bombs home to our loved ones. Voodoo donuts is a "must do" whilst in Portland. There are two in the downtown Portland area. The original seems to have a line around the block at all hours. But where else can you get your own voodoo doll shaped donut

Got Beer?

by TashieKitten

Here's some general info on the Brewers Festival. Please visit my Portland page for more information.I once read that Oregon had more breweries per capita than anywhere else in the United States and had fewer than only Copenhagen, Denmark. We love our craft beers and pretty much anyone will point you to their favorite brewery. The web site below will show you which breweries are in the Oregon Brewers Guild. There are so many sites for Oregon beer you could just "google" it and see what comes up.

Craft Beer Pioneer

by richiecdisc

Many are coming to realize that Oregon is full of many scenic wonders but it has been a forerunner in the craft beer revolution in the United States as well. In the early 1980s, small breweries started to spring up around the the US with many of the first in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. The climate is quite good for growing hops and there's no shortage of high quality water. Add to this an alternative entrepreneurial spirit and making beer was a no-brainer. Cascade hops are quite robust and lend a citrus nose and flavor to the beers it is used in so initial beers tended to be very hoppy or bitter. Recent trends bring a big malt profile into the mix and make for more balanced beers. But make no mistake, beers from the Pacific Northwest are not for the meek. While brewers in Europe initially complained of unbalanced beers in the US craft industry, more of them are now...

Oregon White Oak

by glabah

At one point in time, the Willamette Valley had a significant portion of oak savanna and other ecosystems that revolved around the large oak trees found here.The tree is also known as the Garry Oak, and was named after Nicholas Garry of the Hudon's Bay Company.For various reasons, the wood from the tree is difficult to use commercially, and therefore in most cases the trees are simply destroyed when land around them is developed.As time has gone on, people have learned a lot more about the importance of these oak trees to the ecosystems of the Willamette Valley. Early in 2009, it was found that even preserving a single tree in a farmer's field can result in a huge ecological benefit to surrounding plants and animals that was previously unknown.Only a small fraction of the original oak tree ecosystems in the Willamette Valley remain due to commercial and farm conversion of the...

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Wapato, Sagittaria latifolia, native plant

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Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest held this species of plants in particularly high regard. There have been some attempts at trying to restore some of the native habitats for these plants.The particular photo shows a small display of growing wapato as part of a display outside the entrance of the Jackson Bottoms Wetlands Nature Center, which is appropriate as this plant grows in wetland areas.While Wikipedia and other sources say that wapato is actually about 20 different types of plants, most of the time in the Pacific Northwest that name applies to Sagittaria latifolia.Photos 3, 4, and 5 show the large swamps full of wapato growing at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington, where a Chinook village once existed. Lewis and Clark visited this village on their journey to the Pacific, and in their journals describe the harvesting methods used by Native Americans....

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Salmon

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Fish that live in the ocean and return to fresh water to reproduce (salmon and steelhead) have been part of life in the Pacific Northwest as long as anyone can remember. Native American folklore has some fish stories, and native culture heavily depended on the fish, to the point where important trading centers were centered around fishing grounds such as Willamette Falls and Celilo Falls.Unfortunately, due to huge declines in northwest fisheries, they are no longer quite as easy to obtain as they once were.Take a look at the Native American Fishing Platforms that are still used today, though they used to be far more common and built with no modern tools!

Don't Pick the Trilliums

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Trilliums are a native Oregon (and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest) flower that arrives in March or April, depending on the winter weather, flourishes for a few weeks, continues to live in relative obscurity as a three-leafed plant, and then disappears completely as summer wears on.It exists as a bulb under the ground.They are very selective about where they prosper. In places where they prosper, they are all over the ground, but if you try to transplant them they almost never seem to do very well. They want to live wild at a place of their choosing only, it seems.While the flowers first appear as a bright white flower, sometimes as eary as March, usually they are gone by early May. As the weeks go by, the flower slowly turns into a pink then purple color. Eventually only the leaves are left, and then they too disappear, leaving no trace of the root that lives underground.It is said...

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Oregon Grape

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I can not count the number of times I have had people make comments to me about "that strange holly plant with the blue berries rather than red ones" because they are unfamiliar with Oregon's state flower: the Oregon Grape.While the leaves are somewhat like holly, the blue berries are a give away. I have been told that some people use the berries in some types of jam, but the fact is that this is considered a flower and not a fruit: they are generally not suitable for eating.Also, unlike holly (which you will find in abundance all over the place in Oregon now) it is not an imported plant: as the name implies, Oregon Grape is an Oregon native.Around late March and early April, yellow flowers appear on the bushes. These are the blossoms. The "fruit" will come much later. The second photo shows what these flowers look like.As there are a number of public plantings of our state flower in...

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Douglas Fir Trees

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The Douglas Fir tree is Oregon's state tree, and they serve as popular decoration, shade, park feature, and Christmas tree. It is also a popular tree to cut down and use as lumber for housing, and is therefore a prime mover of local industry.

Slugs

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Slugs ("snails without shell" according to the Lewis & Clark Expedition) are very common in the Pacific Northwest. They come in two types: native slugs and imported European black slugs. The native Pacific Northwest slug is not quite like the bright yellow "banana slug" that is found further south in California, but it is a close relative.The European black slug has no native enemies and will grow to huge proportions and eat many valuable crops overnight. The native slug shown in the photo does not cause as much damage to valuable crops or lawn flowers.If you spend any time at all outside in the Pacific Northwest, particularly during the rainy season (September to June or so) you will see at least one slug somewhere if you spend and time at all outdoors and are paying attention. They are everywhere west of the Cascades.

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Hotel Monaco Portland - a Kimpton Hotel Portland

7 Reviews and 1540 Opinions The Hotel Monaco is a terrific hotel. Located in the downtown area of Portland, it is within walking...

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La Quinta Inn and Suites Eugene Eugene

1 Review and 109 Opinions AVOID THIS PLACE! My family and I decided to stay here for the college football season for home...

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River House Motel Florence

1 Review and 253 Opinions We had been so focused on eating that we didn't book a hotel room. After we were fully sated we...

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