Travel Oregon launches USA’s first statewide bike-friendly business program
Oregon’s public tourism agency is going statewide with a program that publicly recognizes businesses for bike-friendly practices.
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Mount Hood leaders map their course to become a bike-recreation Mecca
The slopes south and west of Mount Hood could become Oregon’s next great bike tourism destination, Clackamas County leaders said Saturday.
Bus service, advocacy group are latest signs of cycling boom in Mt. Hood area
The latest bicycling and bike tourism hot-spot is Sandy and the small communities around Mt. Hood. Now with a bike-friendly bus service and fledgling bike and pedestrian coalition, even more positive change is afoot.
Bike projects win big with Clackamas County tourism grants
Grant awards for bike projects are a clear sign that it’s all coming together for bike tourism in Clackamas County.
Travel Oregon wants to develop a statewide ‘gravel riding network’
Oregon is getting serious about the development of a gravel riding network.
Here’s a chance to make East County bike touring even better
A pair of public studio workshops next month will shape the direction of a big recreational biking upgrade for east Multnomah County.
New brewery in Cascade Locks hopes to bank on bike tourism
Thunder Island Brewing Company in Cascade Locks sets out to serve tourists pedaling the newly reconnected Historic Columbia River Highway.
ODOT in hot seat for dangerous Highway 101 repaving job
ODOT failed to extend a new layer of pavement into the bicycle riding area of a long stretch of Highway 101.(Photo: Jeff Smith) A recent repaving job by the Oregon Department of Transportation on the popular Oregon Coast Bike Route on Highway 101 between Yachats and Florence has raised eyebrows among veteran bike tourers, transportation … Read more
How to build the world’s longest bike touring route: 8 questions for Jean-Francois Pronovost
Portland has a network of neighborhood greenways, and they’re great. But Jean-Francois Pronovost’s is 3,100 miles long.
After carfree success, Crater Lake National Park officials make it an annual event
Reader Sally Hunt and a friend took full advantage of a carfree Rim Drive back in June. After the resounding success of its first-ever carfree weekend this past June, Crater Lake officials now plan to make it an annual event. And, as a bonus, they’ll host another carfree weekend next month. Travel Oregon is set … Read more
An unforgettable eastern Oregon en-cow-nter
Morning sunrise behind me, the dream-like Hail Ridge Road in front of me. It would be a very good day on the bike.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland unless otherwise noted) Spending three days riding some of the most exhilarating roads in our state has left me with many fond memories and new excitement about the bike … Read more
New hiker-biker camping area on the Oregon Coast
This just in from a reader who spotted it in an email from the Adventure Cycling Association: NEW PORT OF SIUSLAW HIKER-BIKER CAMP Robert Forsythe, manager of the Port of Siuslaw in Florence, Oregon, has announced the opening of a twelve-site camping area at the Port’s campground designated exclusively for cyclists and hikers. The hiker-biker … Read more
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