The Century Hotel is centrally located to all the great places you want to visit in SW Oregon. Travel an hour or so in any direction, and explore beaches, mountains, lakes, rivers, or waterfalls. If you're the adventurous type, the activities are endless. Whether you like to hike, run, snow ski, bike, mountain bike, kayak, boat, water ski, windsurf, or anything in between, you are in the right place!
Oregon Beaches are always popular sights to see. Seaside, Oregon has everything for the family to enjoy from the beach to bumper cars, arcades to kite flying, browsing the shops to feeding the seals at the aquarium. Close to Canon Beach, Seaside is the end of the Oregon Trail and a sure shot good time for all! Drive a piece down the coast, and you will find Tillamook an interesting stop. The famous Tillamook Cheese Factory runs tours daily for free, and The Tillamook Air Museum is a blast from the past for you aeronautic buffs. Mt Hood is home to a handful of resorts you can visit anytime of the year. On your way don't miss the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville - home to Howard Hughes famous plane known around the world as the "Spruce Goose."
Timberline Lodge, located at the 6,000-foot level of Mt. Hood, just 55 miles east of Portland International Airport, is one of the most famous ski lodges in North America. Built in the 1930's as a "make-work" project during the Depression, it stands today as an outstanding example of Works Progress Administration craftsmanship and a National Historic Landmark. With its huge hand-hewn beams and massive walk-in size fireplaces, Timberline is the epitome of ski lodges. Some 1.9 million visitors come to Timberline annually making it one of Oregon's most prized and highly visited tourist attractions.
Leaving the ski areas, loop around Mt. Hood onto Hwy. 35, over the Barlow Pass at the summit of the Cascades where you can still hike parts of The Oregon Trail. From here, drive through the Mt. Hood National Forest and into the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area on your way to Hood River. Columbia River Gorge Driving west through the Columbia River Gorge from Hood River to Portland, 620 feet from its origins on Larch Mountain, Multnomah Falls is the second highest year-round waterfall in the nation. Here, all your senses will come alive as you experience the sights and sounds of these magnificent falls.
Adventure is right around the bend!
