What to do in Portland (5 of 10?) - The Vista House

Once again - I am amazed at how long it has been since we've visited one of these great Oregon treasures! I was looking in our digital photo directory of some fun Vista House photos and discovered that I don't have any. We must not have visited the Vista House since before 2005. I know I have lots of photos - all the scenic ones you can see on many websites, and even fun ones of our family. But since we moved to Tualatin over six years ago - we haven't been up to the Vista House very much. When we lived in NE Portland, we could get there in less than 30 minutes. Now - coming from Tualatin - it would take 30 minutes just to get out to Troutdale.

Anyway - I didn't want to steal someone else's photo - so I searched the 'net and found an old, Web 1.0 Tripod website I had setup so long ago. I had scanned a set of old Columbia River Gorge postcards we found at an antique store, and posted those on our site. The site was broken - but I remembered the login and got this image. Someday I'll have to see if I can network our old Power Computing Power Center 150Mhz Macintosh clone, and rescue all the old scans I created so long ago....in the 28.8 modem days....


So - you must come visit us so we can have an excuse to go see the Vista House again. It has been restored in the past 10 years. It has been around for over 90 years, and the wild weather in the Columbia River Gorge had taken a toll on the building. So - The Friends of the Vista House raised money and got the building back in shape.

Come and see! Maybe I'll have some photos to post when we go up to Hood River for a training day for our Tour de Cure event that is coming soon...