Plenty of Oregon beaches, campgrounds, towns and assorted attractions regularly turn up on national lists. But what about must-see experiences? Condé Nast Traveler has compiled “10 Trips in the United States Everyone Should Add to Their Bucket List,” described as “our ultimate wish list.”
As the introduction states, “When someone says ‘bucket list trips,’ it’s all too easy to imagine the journeys you’d like to take in the future, in some faraway someday to celebrate a momentous occasion or mark a sort of final hurrah. That’s all well and good, but as they say: There’s no time like the present. All across the vast United States lie innumerable opportunities to fulfill a childhood — or adulthood — dream, to experience the country in all its splendor, whether rural or urban, culinary or cultural, educational or just plain ol’ fun. At Condé Nast Traveler, we spend our days learning and writing about the best experience all 50 states have to offer.”
So, what in Oregon made it to the bucket list? It’s not one place, but an area. Under the headline, “Criss-crossing the United States for its wine regions,” Oregon gets a mention.
Associate editor Matt Ortile notes that his bucket-list trips include several non-U.S. options. “But when I think about it really hard,” he writes, “I’d give my left arm to go on a harvest-season-long trip hopping around the United States and tasting its myriad wines: from the vineyards of the classic Napa Valley, to the under-sung Willamette Valley in Oregon, to the rising scene in Idaho’s wine country.”
Other items on the Condé Nast Traveler bucket list include hot air ballooning in New Mexico; following a bluegrass trail in Virginia; visiting Point Dume in Malibu, California; horseback riding in Wyoming; taking an airboat ride through the Florida Everglades; a winter expedition cruise in Alaska; seeing Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” a “1,500-foot earthwork coil of basalt rock and mud that sprawls into the mirror-like expanse of the Great Salt Lake”; treading along a Louisiana bayou; and camping in Maine’s Acadia National Park.
— Kristi Turnquist covers features and entertainment. Reach her at 503-221-8227, [email protected] or @Kristiturnquist
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