Here is Oregon

2 months ago | hereisoregon.com | Kristi Turnquist

A hotel on the Oregon coast ranked as one of the top 500 hotels in the world for 2025, according to a Travel + Leisure readers' survey.

2 months ago | hereisoregon.com | Lizzy Acker

Oregon is awash in colleges. But which is best?

2 months ago | hereisoregon.com | Janet Eastman

Bee advocate and scientist Sarah Red-Laird spends most of her days in Oregon vineyards, farms and fields, advising growers on building better pollinator habitats to enrich working landscapes. On Thursday, Red-Laird, founder of Bee Regenerative and the Bee Girl Organization, was walking between tidy rows of Tempranillo grapevines with winemaker Eric Weisinger, the second-generation owner of Weisinger Family Winery in Ashland.

Mar 27, 2025 | hereisoregon.com | Janet Eastman

Bucket-list birdwatchers attending the Harney County Migratory Bird Festival April 10-13 can set out before sunrise to see dozens of bald eagles fly away from a secret roost. Or people can sleep in and walk, bike or drive at their leisure to meet a scientist or wildlife spotter who “knows all the birdy spots” in southeast Oregon’s High Desert. The annual festival that celebrates shorebirds, songbirds, waterfowl and raptors through art, poetry and socializing has something for everyone.

Mar 17, 2025 | hereisoregon.com | Teresa Mahoney

Portland’s The Wine Spa is one of Time Magazine’s World’s Greatest Places of 2025. The recognition comes mere months after Kelly Lewis opened the spa on northeast Broadway. “We are the first dedicated wine spa in the United States and the first in Portland,” Lewis said. Lewis also runs a travel company that provides group travel for women. She got the idea for opening a wine spa back home in Portland after taking one of her tour groups to a vinotherapy spa in the Republic of Georgia.