Willamette Valley
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The Willamette Valley is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon. Centered around the Willamette River, and home to the state's three largest cities and much of the state's agriculture industry, this area of the Pacific Northwest was one of the first Western areas to be settled, thanks to the Oregon trail that ended in Oregon City near Portland.
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Regions
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Cities
- Portland - at the northern end of the valley, where the Willamette and Columbia rivers meet.
- Salem
- Eugene - at the southern end of the valley, the home of the University of Oregon and the seat of Lane county.
- Springfield
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Get in
Eugene is a two hour drive south from Portland, and approximately a 5 hour drive south from Seattle. The Bay Area is a nine hour drive south.
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Get around
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See
- The McKenzie River corridor (fly fishing, rafting)
- Hendricks Park Rhododendron Garden
- Mt. Pisgah Arboretum
- Bike paths along the Willamette River
- Cape Perpetua Interpretive Nature Center (on coast north of Yachats)
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Get out
Eugene is two hours from the Cascade Mountains (good skiing at Mt. Bachelor), and a little over an hour from some of the most beautiful coastline on the Pacific shore.
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