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Getting around Oregon
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Portland
is well connected by
train
and
bus
along the I-5 freeway to Seattle in the north and California to the south. Amtrak (tel 1-800-USA-RAIL,
) runs its
Coast Starlight
train once daily north to Seattle or south to LA, while its Cascades line runs four times daily between
Eugene
and Vancouver, BC. Bus routes radiate from Portland out to Spokane in Washington, across southern and central Oregon and to the coast. There's also a twice-daily service from Portland to San Francisco along US-101, and another following the line of I-84 east from Portland as far as Pendleton, and then south towards Boise in Idaho.
Local bus
companies serve communities north of Lincoln City in sporadic fashion, but the coast is also excellent for
cycling
, if a bit windy. There are many great opportunities for
hiking
, though having your own vehicle can make it easier to access the more remote spots.
Hitchhiking
, inadvisable anywhere in the US, is illegal in Oregon. Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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