When people are able to take time off of work to go on a vacation, people want to be able to enjoy good food, look at beautiful scenery, and participate in fun activities. The best travel location to meet all of those needs is Portland, Oregon. Portland is a fun city known for its unique and weird culture. Every day in Portland offers an opportunity to experience something new and have a wonderful vacation. This city is also just a short drive away from some of the world most beautiful mountains, national parks, and other geographic features. Despite its continual rainy weather, Portland, Oregon is a wonderful place to travel to because of its delicious variety of microbrews, beautiful hiking and outdoor adventuring prospects and unique shopping …show more content…
Portland is located near beautiful, scenic hiking and biking trails. OregonHikers.org, an online community dedicated to hiking and exploring in Oregon, details the many unique hiking opportunities in Portland. This resource offers detailed information on over four-hundred different hiking trails located in the Portland area. Trails range from easy to very difficult and are anywhere from 1 mile to 14 miles (“Semantic Search”). These hiking trails also vary in elevation and allow hikers to remain on flat surfaces or scale mountains. The natural beauty of the Tyron Creek State Natural Area and its unique hiking trails appeal to both community members and tourists. One of the more difficult but popular trails is the Tyron Creek Outer Loop Hike. This trail is 5.7 miles and scales a 630-foot elevation and is located in the Tyron Creek State Natural Area: one of the biggest parks in Portland. The Tyron Creek Outer Loop Hike may be difficult, but it is surrounded by many easier hiking options and is a wonderful area for hiking, biking, and family outings. Portland is also a short drive away from beautiful mountains which help the city capitalize on its physical location (Oregon Parks and Recreation Department). The Tualatin Mountain range is located along the western border of Multnomah County and is only twenty minutes from Portland. This mountain range offers many beautiful sites …show more content…
Portland is normal very cold and rainy. People joke that it is only sunny in Portland a few days out of the year. While that joke is a hyperbole, it does highlight the high-level of cloud coverage and large amount of rain that is in Portland every year. The weather averages around forty degrees in Portland and tends to fall on the windy side most days as well. However, many Portland natives love this weather and find that it adds to the quiet and quirky charm of Portland. Many tourists disagree since people often want to experience clear sky’s and sun when on vacation. Yet, the dreary weather does not deter thousands of tourists from flocking to Portland each year to experience all that this wonderful city had to offer to its residents and visitors. The best time to visit Portland when the weather is warm will be during the summer, Most of Portland’s sunny days, warm weather, and lack of rain occur during the late spring and early summer months. This time of the year is a peak travel season for the city even though tourists come to visit the city all throughout the entire year. No matter the weather, people love Portland and come to visit
In Pigeon Forge you have nice hot summers and cold snowy winters. It also rains allot, which is nice since I enjoy rainy weather. During the winters, the mountains surrounding Pigeon Forge are capped with snow and in the spring the snow melts and creates beautiful streams which run down the mountain into rivers. These are some of the most beautiful attractions in Pigeon Forge and one of my favorite things to go see when we vacation there. " Every season in Pigeon Forge is a beautiful work of art that only a perfect God could create."
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg has become an area that East Tennessee State University students go to visit. Gatlinburg offers something for many; however, the city has some growing pains such as traffic and limited space. Thus, the city of Gatlinburg offers many things that a traveler could need and want, provided that he or she is willing to overlook the city’s rapid growth.
Everyone loves sightseeing and being tourists because observing beautiful places gives people an opportunity to relax and enjoy their moment away from home. Whether they are exploring new, exciting places where you live, or far away from home, sightseeing is one of the greatest pleasures to do in life. I have been to a numerous number of places across the world, and I have to say that Hawaii and San Francisco are both wonderful places to visit. Hawaii and San Francisco, two of the top ten tourist destinations in the United States that attract people from all over the world, resulting in the astonishing landmarks such as Pearl Harbor and Alcatraz Island.
The city of Syracuse has many opportunities to offer its citizens. It is imperative to know what opportunities are available in order to get the most out of life in Central New York.
When you think of Arizona, you think of vast deserts with the sun that lasts the whole day. As you force your car north through the significant state, the seasons change before your eyes. Finally, in the middle of the state you reach the rich San Francisco Mountains. Once you see the peaks of the mountains you know you are close to Flagstaff, AZ.
Oregon's pioneer spirit has continued on through the years in many ways that have influenced the rest of the country. Citizens are supportive of the environment, cultural affairs and a life style that combines urban conveniences with the wonders of our wilderness. Oregon has a beloved place in the lives of its residents and they enjoy sharing their history, products and beauty with others.
Maine has a humid continental climate with a moderate summer and a long winter. The climate is generally milder along the coast, particularly in the winter. The average January temperatures in Maine range from about 10° F in the northern part of the state to about 24° F along the coast. Average July temperatures range from 62° to 70° F with the southern interior being the warmest and the east coast and north the coolest. However, daytime summer temperatures may reach the lower 90°s F, and temperatures in winter have fallen as low as -48° F in the interior.
This paper will discuss the many unique aspects of Oakland, California. Divided into five major parts, Oakland is a very diverse city. The five major parts include: Downtown Oakland which is located in the heart of the city, East Oakland which consists of the majority of the city, West Oakland, North Oakland, and the Oakland hills where the terrain is quite different from other parts of the city. While many may perceive the population to mainly consist of African Americans and Whites, there is a significant growing population of Latinos, and Asians. The topics covered in this paper will shed light on the city of Oakland itself, and discuss the unique city that it is. I will also give my personal experience and perception on the city, after living there for 16 years of my life.
By the second half of the nineteenth century, many people rushed to California including Anglo. It can be said that California was entering an era of “Anglo hegemony”. In this paper, I intend to discuss the reason why they traveled to California, their encounters, their remarkable success as well as the role of sex and gender in helping these newcomers assume control of California.
In a country containing so much diversity and history, it is practically impossible to locate one city which embodies American diversity. A colony started by the French was
In all of my travels across the United States of America, the `hottest' vacation spot hands down is in Key West, Florida and the `coolest' place to travel to is Denali National Park in Denali, Alaska. These vacation destinations are the two most beautiful and most relaxing places in the nation! I personally have experienced a week of enjoyment at both locations and find myself wanting to go back to each of them in the future because I had such a great time. Even though these are both awesome places to spend a week of vacation time, they differ in weather and climate patterns, they each have unique attractions and activities to do, and both vary in travel costs and various other expenses.
Los Angeles was the first product off the assembly line of American urban planning. Turned on in the late 19th century, the city-making machine was fueled by an immense immigration of people who sought to create a new type of city out of the previously quaint pueblo. They also strove to craft the first major city developed primarily by Americans and outside of European archetypes. As a result, Los Angles is not only incredibly diverse, but also nearly impossible to define. Since it is a product of the American machine, understanding the community of Los Angeles becomes vital to understanding the United States. But to fully comprehend the present Los Angeles, one must look at the process that created it. Specifically, Los Angeles was created by upper class Anglo citizens of the 20th century, who strove to materialize their imagined reality of a rural city by establishing a process where affluent citizens fled to the suburbs and left the lower class residents their more urban rundown leftovers. This created world then became the setting for resistance from various groups, such as minorities and youth, who began to undermine the Anglo infrastructure through social interaction.
When you associate anything with New York City it is usually the extraordinary buildings that pierce the sky or the congested sidewalks with people desperate to shop in the famous stores in which celebrities dwell. Even with my short visit there I found myself lost within the Big Apple. The voices of the never-ending attractions call out and envelop you in their awe. The streets are filled with an atmosphere that is like a young child on a shopping spree in a candy store. Although your feet swelter from the continuous walking, you find yourself pressing on with the yearning to discover the 'New York Experience'.
Olympia has been the capital of Washington Territory and State since 1853. Seattle is the state’s most populous city with a population of 563,000 in 2000, followed in rank by Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Bellevue, and Everett.
Love it or hate it, buzzing, sweaty, exotic Bangkok is a city that really is larger than life. For some, the frenetic pace, heat, traffic and lack of personal space can be overpowering and are good reasons to pass through the city as quickly as possible but, for many others, the sheer dynamism is intoxicating.