7-Nights Best of the Pacific Northwest from $3,625

Best Of The Pacific Northwest
Discover the great cities of the Pacific Northwest and West Coast including Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. Sample the flavors of the region wine tasting at a Be My Guest experience in the Willamette Valley and over a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience at TMK Creamery. You’ll embrace natural landscapes exploring California’s iconic trees of Redwood National and State Parks and Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Complete with visits to Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Portland’s International Rose Test Garden and Washington’s Mount St. Helens Visitor Center, this 8-day tour unlocks the best of the Pacific Northwest.


Dining Summary

• 3 Dinner (D)
• 7 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Wilsonville: See how Oregon wines are in a league of their own on your visit to family-run Terra Vina Vineyard. Over your Be My Guest experience, hear the story of founders Karl and Carole. Karl’s passion for understanding the origin of wines and his goal to create the big bold reds he preferred in Pinot Noir country have led him to constantly seek new varietals, blends and techniques from some of the most ancient wine regions of the world. Tour the vineyard, containing nearly 17 acres of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc before tasting some of their complex wines paired with a three-course, family-style lunch.

• Eureka: There's no better place to learn about craftsmanship from the 1800s than from the Victorian millwork specialists at Blue Ox Millworks. Stroll through the Historic Village containing a logging skid camp and working studios for blacksmithing, printing, fiber arts, sign painting, foundry, stained glass, pottery, lapidary and more. Watch woodworking equipment from the 1800s in action in the millwork shop where the millworkers make windows, doors, balusters and custom millwork. Learn how to apply the craftsmanship tools and millwork techniques of the last century to produce a small custom piece to take home with you.

• Seattle: Tick the must-see attraction of Pike Place Market off your bucket list. At the oldest, continuously open farmers’ market in the country, take your time exploring the market’s stalls and shops spread across nine acres. Visit the historic arcade and make your way down winding alleys, stairways and lower levels for a sensory tour of sights, sounds and tastes. Be sure to stop by the Pike Place Fish Market, famous for its vendors who toss fish back and forth. Founded in 1930, the Pike Place Fish Market is an enduring Seattle institution and a one-of-a-kind experience.
• WA Parks Mt Saint Helens: Unlock the history and geology of Mount St. Helens at the Science and Learning Center featuring education-rich displays and a short film. You can take a short nature walk to an observation area with several telescopes. On a clear day, you’ll have a tremendous view of Mount St. Helens.
• Portland: Visit the oldest continuously operating public garden for showing – boasting over 10,000 rose bushes and 600 rose varieties sitting on 4.5 acres of land. Unlock the garden’s history, and you’ll learn how in 1888 Georgiana Burton Pittock, wife of pioneer publisher Henry Pittock, invited her friends and neighbors to exhibit their roses in her garden. After an annual rose show grew in popularity and size, Georgiana and her friends established the Portland Rose Society in 1889. A former Rose Society president chose the garden’s site and established a rose test garden in 1917.
• Hood River: Head to Multnomah Falls, Oregon's tallest waterfall at 620 feet. Learn how the falls are fed by underground springs from Larch Mountain and are usually highest during the winter and spring seasons. Multnomah Falls is also one of the best places in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area to study geology exposed by floods. As the most-visited natural recreation site in the Pacific Northwest, it's the ideal spot to snap pictures to add to your travel album.
• Yaquina Head Lighthouse: The Pacific Northwest promises you one iconic sight after the next. Visit Yaquina Head lighthouse, a beacon which has been guiding ships along the West Coast since 1873. Gaze up at this 93-feet-tall lighthouse perched on the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, stretching out from the Oregon coast one mile into the Pacific Ocean. Then visit the interpretive center featuring exhibits on seabirds and marine life as well as human history. You can even see the wheelhouse of an historic ship, a recreated rocky island and its inhabitants and a full-scale replica of the lighthouse lantern as well as the nearby tide pools.
• North Bend: Get ready for beautiful scenery along Beach Loop Drive in Bandon State Natural Area. Peer out at rocky spires, offshore rock formations and sandy beaches filled with tide pools. Wind along the bluff to view the Pacific and the photographic offshore "sea stack" rocks as sea birds fly overhead. You can even spot part of Bandon’s residential area before returning to Beach Loop and continuing to Face Rock State Scenic Viewpoint. Take the well-kept trail to the beach lined with information about the legend of the rock and see if you can spot the face peering up out of the water.
• Redwood National and State Parks: Welcome to Redwood National and State Parks. Take the winding, Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway through old-growth redwoods. Immerse yourself in the history of these towering trees and the legacy of Newton Drury, whose 40-year dedication helped preserve these forests and secure them as parklands in the 20th century. As you gaze at the giant trees, keep an eye out for the wild Roosevelt Elk herds that roam the park.
• Humboldt Redwoods State Park: Delve into the natural beauty of California at this park encompassing over 53,000 acres, nearly twice the size of San Francisco. L