The Blue Scorcher Bakery has amazing organic pastries, great coffee and tea, and huge windows looking out on the sunrise over the Columbia.
There’s nothing like soaking in the clawfoot tub of the River Suite at the Rose River Inn and then throwing open the curtains and watching ships pass by on the Columbia River below.
Uriah Hulsey is the grandfather of Astoria’s food renaissance. Take a seat at the bar where you can chat up the chef, eat what’s fresh from the market and get caught up on town gossip.
At the south jetty observation platform in Fort Stevens State Park you can watch the massive cargo ships as they cross the bar on their way upstream.
Hear thousands of years of history in an authentic Native American longhouse and see its namesake cannon at the Cannon Beach History Center. Best of all, it’s free.
Take a day trip south and head to the fishing village of Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay. Bring a cooler, because you can buy fresh Dungeness crab and seafood right off the boats.
At the Cornelius Pass Roadhouse in Hillsboro order a Terminator Stout and then wander around an oasis of gardens, orchard and octagonal barn of a former pioneer Homestead.
