The World's Most Beautiful Places
A view of the Yaquina Bay Bridge along Oregon’s Pacific Coast, near the town of Newport. The bridge, which has elements of Art Deco, Art Moderne and Gothic design, was constructed in 1934. The bridge is one of eleven designed by Conde McCullough, along US Route 101, Oregon’s Coast Highway.
Multnomah Falls, located in Columbia River Gorge, and features an upper and lower falls, is at 620 ft the tallest waterfall in the State of Oregon. The falls is named after The Multnomah, a tribe of the Chinookan People, Native Americans who inhabited the region around Portland before the arrival of Europeans to Oregon. The falls is fed both by underground springs from Larch Mountain, but also seasonal runoff from rainfall and snow melt.
The Jonsrud viewpoint, in the Willamette Valley offers the visitor both a historic and scenic view of a beautiful stretch of Oregon. Through the valley below, passed the Barlow Road, also known as the Mt. Hood Road. This road was part of the larger Oregon Trail, and made it much easier for pioneers to reach the fertile valley along Oregon’s coast. On a clear day the conical peak of the Mt. Hood volcano rises prominently above the horizon. In Sandy, Oregon.