What’s to Love: Sunriver feels like a community built around 30+ miles of paved walking/biking paths. When you’re there, it feels like everything (i.e., the pools, the tennis courts, the homes, condos, etc.) was an afterthought to this incredible network of trails. Most of the time, these paved trails are completely separated from the roads, which adds an element of safety.
What’s to Love: After leaving Sunriver Resort, we decided to stop at the Lava Lands Visitor Center and check-out the awesome cinder cone – Lava Butte. Driving down 97, you cannot miss this 500 foot high volcano, which erupted 7000 years ago and covered 9 square miles with lava. If you want to get your kids’ attention, just say, “We’re going to drive-up a real volcano!”
What’s to Love: Is one visit ever enough when the destination is Black Butte Ranch? After an incredible summer visit, we had to experience this premiere family resort during the Christmas holiday season. Surely, Black Butte Ranch comes alive during the festive holiday season. I imagined their properties and roads dusted with some light, fluffy, dry snow perfect for tooling around the resort on cross-country skis and quite possibly, sledding on some of the golf course hills. While the conditions were not quite like I imagined, the resort, and its surroundings, still delivered the best in family fun. We highly recommend taking a winter trip to this Central Oregon hot spot.
Black Butte Ranch is a family resort located 8 miles outside Sisters, Oregon. There are a myriad of activities for the whole family including golf, swimming pools, bike trails and rentals, tennis, spa, fitness classes, and much much more.
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If climbing with kids at Smith Rock, I recommend Jim Albao of Chockstone Climbing Guides. Jim has over 18 years of experience and works well with children.
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