Best road-trip restaurants in Oregon

$$ · Willamette Valley & Columbia Gorge

Waterfront wood-fired pizzeria using foraged and local ingredients in inventive seasonal pies like morel and nettle-pesto.

$$ · Historic Columbia River Highway

A Hood River pizza stop that fits families and groups after Multnomah Falls and the Gorge overlooks.

$$ · Hells Canyon Scenic Byway

A Joseph pizza and beer stop near Wallowa Lake, useful before the Hells Canyon byway curls into wilder country.

$$ · Crater Lake Rim Drive

A Klamath Falls pizza-and-salad stop for the southern Crater Lake approach, useful when the rim-drive day starts or ends in town.

$$

Legendary Hawthorne pizzeria whose blistered thin-crust pies are widely ranked among the best in the country with strictly limited nightly dough.

$$

Ken Forkish's wood-fired pizzeria ranked number one on The Oregonian's list of Portland's best wood-fired pizzas with naturally leavened crust.