Husum Highlands Bed & Breakfast is a great choice for lodging while enjoying the wonderful assortment of indoor and outdoor activities the Columbia River Gorge area has to offer, whatever the season, from
kayaking to
cross country skiing. Other outdoor options include picnics at Northwestern Lake,
hiking, fishing, picking huckleberries, or visiting the
ice caves.
Winter activities include sledding, snowshoeing, downhill and cross-country skiing, sledding, tubing, snowmobiling, and of course curling up indoors with a hot cider and a good book.
A small community,
Husum nevertheless offers a
nine-hole golf course, a
winery, plant nurseries, and
rafting and kayaking on the White Salmon River. Several restaurants are nearby.
Trout Lake is the gateway to hiking and climbing on Mt Adams. Trout Lake also hosts the annual
Mt Adams Country Bicycle Tour and Family Fun Ride each June, when riders can choose to ride 11, 45, 70, or 80 miles through our beautiful area, and the
Trout Lake Arts Festival in July.
Also in Trout Lake you'll find
Cascade Mountain & Ropes Outdoor Adventures. They guide, provide support, or rent equipment for almost any outdoor recreational activity you can imagine, year-round, including hiking, climbing, skiing, snowshoeing, camping, and mountaineering. Families might want to check out their One-Day Family Ski Trip, which includes "a day of skiing, a hot Dutch Oven lunch, good stories, great banjo music, and memories that you and your children will cherish for years." CMR guides are knowledgeable about local history and wildlife as well.
Nearby
White Salmon is home to a growing number of art galleries and shops featuring all kinds of art created by our many local artists. Available works include including paintings, textile arts, ceramics, pottery, photography, sculpture, and more, and range from the purely decorative to the every-day functional.
Collage of the Gorge is the place to shop for "hangable, wearable, edible, and affordable art," including many pieces and products by some of our area artists and artisans. Downtown galleries include LeRoz Gallery and Blue Ackerman Photography. Flowers, gifts, souvenirs, and items for the home and garden can be found at Butterflies Flowers & Gifts and Trellis (which is also the local showroom for the "Feels Like Home" line from White Salmon artist Julie Ueland). Ceramics and pottery are made right on the premises at Naylor Art and Klickitat Pottery.
Places at which to see the creative process in action are The Art Hatchery, a working artists' studio and gallery, and the
White Salmon Glassworks, a glass blowing and fusing studio featuring public demonstrations, classes, and a gallery. And if you've ever dreamed of building your own wooden boat, or just enjoy looking at beautiful boats being built by others, the
White Salmon Boatworks is a must-see!
Visit the
White Salmon Arts Council website for for a full description of what downtown White Salmon has to offer, and a printable
Walking Map.
If wine is your thing, you probably already know that the Columbia Gorge is now an official American Viticultural Area. Visit the
Columbia Gorge Winegrowers website for a downloadable
Columbia Gorge Wineries Tour Map.
The Gorge is home to several wonderful
museums, including the
International Carousel Museum, two area interpretive/natural history museums, the
Gorge Heritage Museum, and the world-class
Maryhill Museum of Art.
During the
Hood River Valley Blossom Festival is a wonderful time to visit the Gorge. Everything is in bloom, prolonging the season (as things will have already been in bloom in Portland for a month). We live near the largest anjou pear orchard in the world, Mt Adams Orchard. Other activities include a dinner theater train ride through the fruit orchards of the Hood River Valley via the
Mt Hood Railroad.
Don't feel like doing much? Then just enjoy our 20 acres of quiet! Hike to the top of the hills on the logging roads behind our house to meadows with spectacular overlook of the White Salmon Valley and Mt Hood. Ferns, Douglas fir, and all the forest vegetation (including Pacific dogwood and and trillium in season) give off a pungent evergreen and forest scent. Follow your hike with a
massage and a soak in our hot tub.
