Oregon is a special place. There’s diverse beauty everywhere from the rugged coastline to Deschutes National Forest, the Willamette Valley and Painted Hills of eastern Oregon. We’re lucky to get views of the Three Sisters Mountains while driving down the street, Mount Hood from the Columbia River Gorge (and its seemingly endless waterfalls), and we don’t even have to pump our own gas. To be fair the reasons why there’s no place like Oregon could go on forever, but these are just ten of our favorite things about this Pacific Northwest state. 1. The rugged coast Oregon’s stretch of the…

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