Hidden Oregon (Hidden Oregon, 3rd ed) (Paperback)

by Maria Lenhart (Author)

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Product Description
Now in an expanded third edition, Hidden Oregon includes even more out-of-the-way places that make the state such a joy to explore. This traveler's companion leads to coastal inns where the only traffic is the passing parade of migrating whales, hiking trails where the only noise is from cascading waterfalls, and small towns where rush hour means that the morning muffins are hot out of the oven down at the town bakery.

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Ulysses Pr; 3rd edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569751773
• ISBN-13: 978-1569751770
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,678,280 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good book but misses one thing, May 8, 2002

By	Ruth Sprague (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Hidden Oregon (Paperback)

I was an Oregonian all my life until a few years ago, and was raised in the southern Oregon area. When I read the book, I was carefully examining the part about southern Oregon. I noticed that a very interesting part of southern Oregon wasn't mentioned, and the is the Vortex (also known as the House of Mystery) in Gold Hill, a small town about 12 miles outside of Medford, the main town in southern Oregon. This is a spot that was so interesting that even Albert Einstein corresponded with someone about it. The "House of Mystery" doesn't refer to a haunting, but is an old shack that slid down an embankment during a mud slide during the gold mining days. You enter the "house", and things such as what looks like it should run uphill runs downhill, a certain part where people that are taller appear shorter, etc. Animals avoid the area, which ought to say something. Now, I haven't seen references to it in other travel books except for one, and then it was only one sentence long. For a book detailing the "hidden" things to look for in Oregon, this is one place to visit.
Otherwise, the book is very good on detailing the eastern part of the state, and is accurate about the demographics (my aunt lived almost all her life in eastern Oregon). Compared to other books on traveling Oregon, I would recommend this one.