Things to Do in Oregon
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Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Portland, Oregon
Visiting the OMSI is fantastic fun for the whole family. There's the Science Playground where kids ages 0-6 conduct experiments (like playing with "flubber" and watching scientists make "oobleck"), play...
Science & Nature Museum
Special Collection
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city of well-planned parks and open spaces, and Pioneer Courthouse Square, which opened in the mid-1980s, is a terrific example of an awesome urban space...
Park
Live Music Venue
Portland Children's Museum
Portland, Oregon
Devoted to little ones' interests and imaginations, the Portland Children's Museum is the kid-friendliest museum in an already kid-friendly city. Kids can put on a show using real...
Art Museum
Science & Nature Museum
Live Music Venue
Theater
Tapiola Park
Oregon Coast
A local mom of seven named Wendy Berezay realized what Astoria needed: a playground with the town's most important landmarks represented in miniature. With the help of other tireless parents, Tapiola Park came into being. ...
Park
Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in Grant Park
Portland, Oregon
This sculpture garden contains three life-sized bronze statues, all character's from author Cleary's beloved Ramona (the Pest) Quimby series of children's books. There's mischievous Ramona, the tall and serious...
Park
Bicycling
Swimming
Broadway in Seaside
Oregon Coast
Broadway is where it all happens in Seaside. Take a spin on an old-fashioned carousel, sample dozens of candy "shoppes," snap pics at the Wild West photographer's studio, or play a round of miniature golf before taking on the tilt-a-whirl and bumper cars....
Historical Landmark
Neighborhood
Live Music Venue
Scenic Landmark
Boutique
Portland Saturday Market
Portland, Oregon
It's called a Saturday market, but it happens on Saturdays and Sundays and is really more of a craft festival than just a run-of-the-mill market. Here you...
Flea Market
Live Music Venue
Astoria Riverwalk
Oregon Coast
Meander through Astoria's history told in statues, old canneries, adbandoned docks and new shops and cafés along this four-mile paved walkway that looks onto the Columbia River....
Park
Bicycling
Fishing
Boutique
Train
Wax Works
Oregon Coast
The trumpeting wax elephant at the entrance gives little indication of the fun kind of creepiness your family will find inside. Walk among the dark displays amid scary sound effects that will make you feel you're in a haunted wax house....
Special Collection
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