Twenty-three life-size hand-built dinosaurs hiding among giant ferns and old-growth redwoods in the coastal rainforest near Port Orford — a shady, all-ages walk off Highway 101.
Road trips · Oregon
Oregon road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Oregon — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A churning basalt "hole in the ocean" that seems to swallow the Pacific at Cape Perpetua near Yachats, best caught around high tide from the overlook just off the coast highway.
A folk-art wonderland of tiny castles, towers, and bridges built from local stone by a Danish homesteader, between Bend and Redmond in central Oregon.
A jaw-dropping two-tiered waterfall plunging over columnar basalt cliffs, reached by a short forest trail off the Umpqua Highway in the southern Cascades.
Slender rock spires capped with boulders that perch like hats, in the Deschutes National Forest northeast of Sisters — a quiet, otherworldly central-Oregon detour.
About 90 minutes east of Bend in remote Wheeler County, banded gold, red, and black hillsides of 35-million-year-old fossil soils that glow at low light — a John Day Fossil Beds unit that still feels secret.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in Oregon.
Bandon · $$$$$ — The dream that started it all
Bandon · $$$$$ — Ocean-view par-3 gem
Bandon · $$$$$ — Forest-and-meadow change of pace
Bandon · $$$$$ — Template holes, huge greens
Bandon · $$$$$ — Often called the best here
Bandon · $$$$$ — A mile of clifftop, no bunkers
Plan the Oregon trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
Roamward turns these into a real road trip — the drive, the detours, and the stays. Join early access for the iOS beta.