Oregon Coast Points

[flynrider]

Very beautiful! I'm heading to Oregon for a week with my kids next week. What can you recommend around the Tillamook area? Sadly I will be without the CB but on a fun family vacation (great also but different).

Tillamook had a cool air museum, but most of the collection (all of the WWII aircraft) was moved to another museum last year. They're still open, but I don't know if I'd bother paying $9 to see what they have left. According to their website there are about 20 planes left.

Other than that, there is the Tillamook cheese factory. It's a self guided tour where you get to see how the cheese is made. It was pretty interesting, but kind of crowded. Apparently, cheese factories are a popular vacation destination. The highlight for me was lunch in their restaurant featuring (naturally) giant grilled cheese sandwiches!

If you're in the Portland area, I'd highly recommend a visit to the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River. They've got about 80 planes and 130 cars dating back to the early 1900s (all operational). They also have a few dozen antique motorcycles. If you like old things that go, this is the museum for you. Hood River is about 60 miles east of Portland.