Magic Mile Chairlift Ride - After arriving at Timberline Lodge, you may choose to start your visit by riding the Magic Mile Chairlift Ride up to Silcox Hut (the views don't get any better than this!). While inhaling the cool, clear non-smells of mountain air, you'll go to an altitude of 7000 feet. Have a picnic lunch or just take in the scenery by looking right to the coast range, left to the Great American Desert, and straight ahead, beyond Mount Jefferson and the Cascade mountain range. Snow boots & heavy jacket suggested in winter.
Timberline Lodge - Spend the day in historic Timberline Lodge, by the fire, soaking up the scenic history and enjoying the soft, live music at the Ram's Head Bar before a hearty fireside brunch buffet or gourmet dinner in the Cascade Dining Room; where you may want to sit at a window table so you can look south across the tops of the Cascade Mountains...
Exhibition
Center - Once
inside the lodge, the once-damp, black hole of the Lodge’s lower level is
now the airy Exhibition Center. Here a visitor can stop the clock, for the
Center describes the creation of Timberline Lodge and, using modern audio
and visual technology, re-creates the Great Depression and the architecture,
engineering and art created in the Northwest during the 1930s. One of the
Center’s highlights is the life-size replica of the popular Blue Gentian
guest room. The viewer looks into this room through an outside window
and sees an occupied hotel room in 1937 with period music and the voice of
FDR coming from the 1930s radio on the bedside table.
And in the Blue Ox Bar next door, the
visitor drops back 70 years in time, while enjoying a deli sandwich with
beer, wine or coffee.
Ranger Walk - Join a U.S. Forest Service
Ranger for a 25 minute tour of historic Timberline Lodge. Explore the rich
history of the Lodge and all it has to offer. Tours are free and available
to everyone.
Where: Meet at the US Forest Service desk inside Timberline Lodge
When: Thursday – Sunday at 11:00, 1:00, 2:00 (Monday – Wednesday when
Forest Service Staff are present) Cost: Free or $2 donation.
'The Builders of Timberline' - Watch the always-running video 'The Builders of Timberline' (30 minutes) in the Barlow Room of Historic Timberline Lodge. This video provides a wonderful overview of the Timberline Project and Lodge Construction. Topics that will be discussed include: WPA history, Lodge History, Ski History and a general overview of the building of Timberline Lodge.
Blue Ox & Ram's Head Bars - Take a dip in the heated, sheltered pool and
then relax with a cold beer in the famed Blue Ox Bar.
Dinner is superb and is capped with a cordial and more music at the Ram's
Head before heading back to Portland or to your lodging room, where you
enjoy the sight and touch of the handcrafted furnishings while watching the
soft flicker of the fire.