Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

During my Cancer and COVID, my sister kept on telling me about this amazing soft serve ice cream spot up on the Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway. We were so lucky today to find this gem at the end of our tour. The boys loves the delicious end to our day of adventure. Thank you Sugarpine Drive-In!

Explore more … The spectacularly beautiful Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area stretches 85 miles and includes portions of three Oregon and three Washington counties. Formed by ancient volcanoes and sculpted by incredible floods, the Columbia River Gorge carves an impressive corridor through the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington as the great Columbia River flows to the Pacific Ocean. As the only sea-level route from the Great Basin to the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River Gorge is a land of contrasts. The western Gorge, with an average annual rainfall of 75 inches, is a place of misty mountains, rich forestlands and more waterfalls than any area in the country. The eastern Gorge, with an annual rainfall of less than 15 inches, is a place of rim-rock bluffs, rolling hills, farms and ranchlands.

The Historic Columbia River Highway is an approximately 75-mile-long scenic highway in the U.S. state of Oregon between Troutdale and The Dalles, built through the Columbia River Gorge between 1913 and 1922.