Curious Gorge is the Columbia River Gorge’s most beloved hiking and exploring guidebook. It’s a fun book that reads as if the author’s in the car with you explaining and directing you to all the amazing things to see and do. Over 14,000 sold since 2002!

▪  Curious Gorge is not your standard lifeless hiking guide. This book is lively and fun to read as it blends seasonal insights, humor, history, and just plain enthusiasm for all the Columbia River Gorge’s wonders.

▪ More photos than text – let your eyes fire up your imagination…see pictures then decide what to go do!

▪ Features the Gorge’s most popular attractions such as Multnomah Falls, Bonneville Dam, and Eagle Creek…BUT, the heart of this guide is about the off-the-beaten-track (and often unsigned) hikes and explorations. This book isn’t about EVERYTHING in the Gorge, but rather it’s a selective guide to what’s best and most interesting. Who wants to go on a boring hike?

▪  Not just hikes though – there’s also drive-to viewpoints, ice caves, salmon-jumping viewing, wildflower nooks, waterfall scramble adventures, and historically interesting oddities.

▪ Contains the one-of-a-kind MATRIX – a visitor favorite because it saves you time and frustration trying to decide if you have the time to drive/walk/see a particular place. The MATRIX gives you a real-world time estimate for each entry, so you can plan your day wisely.

▪ EXACT DIRECTIONS! Seriously…no getting lost. These directions have been time-tested – they work!

Get a Curious Gorge. Only $14.95 – way worth it! You’ll wish every town that you’ll visit would have a guide this local, this fun, this good.
 

Bend, Overall is the locals’ choice when it comes to hiking and exploring the wonders of Central Oregon that surround Bend. Over 12,000 sold since 2004!.
 

▪  Photo-intensive entries make it easy to plan fun-filled days.

▪  Guidebook features both the popular hikes as well as plenty of off-the-beaten-path ones. Explore the volcanoes, the pristine lakes, the crystalline rivers, the dramatic canyons, the plunging waterfalls – everything that makes the area around Bend one big wonderland.

▪  Also, this guide highlights a heap of Central Oregon’s oddities…from caves to cinder cones, from lava cast forests to hot springs, from Petersen Rock Garden to a thunderegg u-dig ranch, from skinny-dip lakes to Eagle/Kokanee wildlife spectacles…WOW!

▪  Includes another fabulous time-estimate MATRIX. Real-world time guesses for every entry let you know if you’ll have enough time to hike or explore an attraction.

▪  Lots of quirky extras: a few bare butts, driving tours, tree identification, art, maps, yada yada.

▪  EXACT DIRECTIONS! Yes, exact…I want to get you there without you getting lost!
 

Visitors love Bend, Overall because it showcases the stunning variety of attractions that surround Bend. At only $14.95 you won’t go wrong. Whether you’re a gung-ho adventurer or a less-mobile curiosity seeker, this guidebook will give you enough options to fill a whole vacation!