1. Spring Forward
When white settlers descended on Oregon, a collection of Wasco, Warm Springs, and Paiute bands gave up some 10 million acres of land in exchange for the Warm Springs Reservation. The Museum at Warm Springs and its cultural artifacts sit in a dense cluster of buildings along Highway 26, but farther south the route crosses the Deschutes River. Pullouts let drivers take in the geologic terraces of the canyon walls and one of the prettiest stretches of road in the region.
2. Start at Rock Bottom
Rising from the Central Oregon scrubby high desert, Smith Rock State Park looks something like an
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