Bend

Pros: Serene and beautiful location... Unusual terrain... Newberry Volcanic National Monument... High Desert Museum.
Cons: No interstate highways within 125 miles.

This beautiful area took my family totally by surprise. Within just a few miles, we discovered towering snow-capped mountains, massive lava flows, a huge cave, beautiful lakes and a singularly unique museum. Originally scheduled as little more than a ...

Pros: Beautiful nature, bike trails, outdoor activity
Cons: Can get very busy during peak times

Located in the desert of Central Oregon, Sunriver Resort has traditionally been a well-kept secret. In more recent years as word has spread, the number of visitors has increased dramatically. Even so, Sunriver maintains a sense of quiet, relaxing...

Pros: Many different stores, restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions to choose from.
Cons: Some people say it's too expensive to live there.

I want to start out by saying that I lived in Bend for exactly sixteen years, so if I sound biased towards this city, please forgive me in advance. After living in Bend, then moving away in February of this year to the Portland area, I ...

Pros: Outdoor recreation galore
Cons: None

Bend Oregon is an attractive vacation center for families and for everyone who enjoys outdoor recreation. This town of 50,000 is located in central Oregon, on the sunny side of the Cascade Mountains. Unlike some more rainy locations in Oregon Bend boasts...

Pros: Hot, sunny weather, friendly boaters, and raging rapids!
Cons: That summer days have to end.

Last Saturday a group of about 20 friends organized a trip down to Eastern Oregon to go white-water rafting on the Deschutes River. Outside of the chaos that is somehow always inextricably associated with activities involving groups larger than four...

Pros: Lots to do
Cons: In the middle of nowhere

We live in Oregon, so Bend seemed like a good place to go on vacation. We like the mountains and hunting for rocks, fishing, museums and that sort of thing. All these and more can be found in and around Bend.

East Lake offers fishing, camping...

Pros: Great Vacation
Cons: Go there and go home. It's a hard living.

Bend is almost home. It was the place I went the first time I got a real paycheck and a week of vacation in the same month. On that trip, I booked a bunk room in a bed and breakfast which I shared with a Finnish kid who rode the bus with me to Mt....

Pros: Beautiful scenery, diverse weather, numerous outdoor activities
Cons: Beginning to become trendy, somewhat crowded on holidays.

Bend, Oregon is a great destination for those who enjoy outdoor activity over going to the opera or seeing a Broadway play. Not to say Bend doesn't have it's share of 'culture' activities for a budding city of 50 thousand or so, but it's just not it's...

Pros: good fishing
Cons: bad camping

I recently went on a vacation to Craine Prairie, a dammed up river that is another great fishing spot in the central Oregon area. It isn't far from Bend, only an hour out of town. I found my experience pleasant, but there were more fire ants here then...

Pros: Beautiful, many options
Cons: none!

You may have guessed it, I am a native Oregonian and I love it here! I don't think there is anywhere else I would rather live and Bend is one of the most beautiful parts of Oregon.

There are so many choices of things to do in Bend. There is...

Pros: a lot of activities, year round fun
Cons: not an inexpensive vacation

Sunriver, OR.... just 15 minutes south of Bend. We Love it!! It is the best family vacation, never to be taken for less than 4 days. The resort has any type of accommodation you're looking for, from a lodge room to a condominium to a 5 BR house. The...

Pros: great family getaway
Cons: Can be dull for teens!

As a teenager my parents used to force me to spend summer vacations at Sunriver Resort outside of Bend, Oregon. Initially I despised the thought of being taken from my friends and thrown into this strange, isolated culture. After realizing the many...

Pros: Lots of activities, great weather, beautiful scenery
Cons: Too many people know about it

Every year for the past fifteen years I and my family have made our way down to central Oregon from Seattle. It is a place that we treasure and that is very dear to our hearts. That is what central Oregon does to everyone that passes through, it sticks...

Pros: many outdoor activites, very family oriented
Cons: some lack of night life-opera, theatre

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I have lived in Bend, Oregon for 24 years and I have seen it develop from a very small town to what it is today- a place which is growing but still maintains its small town charm. Anything you want is...

Pros: Nice town,nice view
Cons: cons?Bend?never

From just about any point in the town of Bend,Oregon you can look up and see snow peaked mountains.It's a magnificent sight.
The town of Bend was a new experience for me.Why?It didn't have a college or university,not one,not even a community...