Hood River is right up our alley with a plethora of outdoor activities, breweries and wineries. With a long drive yesterday, we also found a playground a short drive from the hotel.
After breakfast as the hotel and coffee at the playground, we headed toward Mount Hood for a hike. We hike about 3.5? miles to Tamanawas Falls. It was well worth the journey and was a beautiful route.
Logan and Shawn even hiked up the slick, rocky hillside and behind the falls!
After the hike, we made stops at Mount Hood Brewing in Government Camp for lunch (along with visiting a few ski shops) and then walked around Timberline Lodge.
Shawn and I had been to Timberline Lodge years ago on our 30 day trip back to Minnesota, but it was fun to take the boys through the hotel. We even found a rec room. We also saw skiers passing by out the lodge windows, so walked out on one of the ski runs!
We had dinner in Downtown Hood River at Double Mountain Brewery. It was our second time there on the trip since it was everyone's favorite (and many restaurants still had limited hours due to staffing and tourism after Covid).
We met another family today, also from the midwest, who were traveling with their two boys. We didn't know it until later, but we did the same falls hike, sat next to each other at lunch, ran into them when we tried to go to Mount Hood Winery (it closed right when we got there, they were pulling out), we ran into them at dinner (they sat next to us again), and we were staying at the same hotel! It was so funny that Shawn and the other dad ended up grabbing drinks in the hotel lobby while the moms put the kids to bed!
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