9 Days of Pacific Northwest Beauty
Brace yourself for an exciting family adventure as you embark on a thrilling jet boat ride on Gold Beach. Admire a living museum of soaring trees and ride a dune buggy through sand dunes in Oregon. Enjoy the city sights of San Francisco, Portland and Seattle while experiencing the natural ...
Read Full Description- Destination:
- Eureka, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
- Trip Length:
- 9 days
- Price Range:
- From $2100 to $2250 per person See what this includes and what this excludes
- Best Time to Go:
- May, June, July, August, September
- Recommended for:
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Children (12 - 14)
Children (15 - 17)
Adults (21 - 24)
Adults (25 - 29)
Adults (30 - 39)
Adults (40 - 64)
Seniors (65+)
Adventure-seeker, Married
Culinary Tour, Romantic Getaway
Detailed Trip Description
Brace yourself for an exciting family adventure as you embark on a thrilling jet boat ride on Gold Beach. Admire a living museum of soaring trees and ride a dune buggy through sand dunes in Oregon. Enjoy the city sights of San Francisco, Portland and Seattle while experiencing the natural wonders of volcanic Mount St. Helens and the rugged coast of Olympic National Park.
Trip Itinerary
Day 1 - San Francisco
Arrive in San Francisco and take a complimentary transfer to your hotel. Meet your tour director to discuss your itinerary and explore the unique areas of this beautiful city.
Hotel
Welcome to San Francisco! Take your complimentary transfer to the tour hotel. This afternoon, meet your Tour Director who can answer any questions you may have about the exciting days ahead. Get a real San Francisco treat and dive into exploring on your own at nearby Pier 39, the famed marketplace filled with shops, attractions and street performers angling for oohs, aahs and cheers from the crowd. Be sure to visit the Sea Lebrities, the pier’s resident sea lion population. At 6 p.m., get together with your fellow adventurers and Tour Director at a festive Kick-off Party.
Hotel: Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf
Day 2 - San Francisco
See the Golden Gate Bridge, travel through the rolling hills of wine country and stop and explore the beautiful redwoods in Richardson Grove State Park.
National Parks
What better way to get a taste of San Francisco than by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks. If you and the family are up for a walk, grab your cameras and join your Tour Director for a stroll across this impressive feat of engineering. Learn all about the bridge and why it’s not painted gold – despite its name! Then, travel through the rolling hills of California’s Wine Country and stop at Richardson Grove State Park for your first encounter with the giants of the forest, the mighty redwoods. Follow trails that meander among these towering redwoods and amaze your friends with photos of yourself walking straight through a tree!
Meal(s): Full Breakfast / Dinner
Hotel: Benbow Hotel
Day 3 - Eureka
Redwood National Park exploration, then travel to the Victorian town of Eureka, then drive through the CA Redwood National Park.
National Parks
Get in touch with your inner green spirit as you travel along the Avenue of the Giants, one of America’s most spectacular roads and best display of giant California redwoods. Step back in time in Eureka, a quaint 19th-century Victorian town built during the height of the region’s logging boom. Next, drive through Northern California Redwood National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with trees more than 1,000 years old and over 300 feet tall. Anticipation mounts as you cross into Oregon and step aboard a high-speed jet boat for a thrilling ride on the Rogue River. This Congress-designated “National Wild and Scenic River” tumbles and roars from high in the Cascade Range to the shores of the Pacific and is home to tons of native wildlife. Keep an eye out for black bear, river otter, black-tail deer, bald eagles, great blue heron and Canada geese, all commonly seen along the river!
Meal(s): Full Breakfast
Hotel: Jot's Resort
Day 4 -
Trip to the Oregon Dune National Park will fill you with wonder, hop in a dune buggy and experience the thrilling ride!
Private Tour
Gear up for the trip to Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, a natural wonder of endless shifting sand, unique tree islands and lots of interesting creatures. Hop in a dune buggy for an exhilarating ride up and down these expansive tracts of sand. Then stop at Heceta Head, a beautiful 19th-century lighthouse that casts its beam some 21 miles out to sea, before continuing north to Gleneden Beach.
Meal(s): Full Breakfast / Dinner
Hotel: Salishan Spa & Golf Resort
Day 5 -
Visit the beautiful little town of Newport, OR where you will see the historic Yaquina Head lighthouse, tidepools, beach, and aquarium!
Beach
Kick off your shoes, roll up your pants and wade in the Yaquina Head tide pools for a captivating search for hermit crabs, sea urchins, anemones, sea stars and even the occasional octopus! Your next look at sea life is even cooler, because you’re headed to the Oregon Coast Aquarium – named one of America’s “Most Awesome Aquariums” by Forbes magazine. Come face-to-face with sharks and bat rays in Passages of the Deep – an acrylic walk-through tunnel surrounded by water. With your leisure time this afternoon, maybe explore Newport’s historic waterfront or join an optional Sea Life Cruise; keep an eye out for sea life and marine birds as the onboard naturalist tells you all about your surroundings.
Meal(s): Full Breakfast
Day 6 -
Visit the famed cheese countryside of Tillamook, OR. Then on to Portland to enjoy a city orientation & stop at the International Rose Test Garden.
Food and Dining
Better get moo-ving, because you’re to Tillamook, a city synonymous with the dairy industry. Get the scoop on dairy products during a tour of the Tillamook Creamery and learn about dairy cows. Then you’ll be treated to a fresh waffle cone filled high with your choice of 35 delicious flavours of Tillamook Ice Cream. Next, journey to Portland, where you’ll enjoy a city orientation, complete with a stop at the International Rose Test Garden.
Meal(s): Full Breakfast
Hotel: Portland Marriott City Center
Day 7 -
Visit the beautiful Mount St. Helens near Portland and then continue northward to the Olympic National Park.
National Parks
Today you’ll visit the award-winning Mount St. Helens Visitors , dedicated to the active Ring-of-Fire volcano that erupted in 1980. Learn about the legendary blast – an eruption so colossal that it spewed ash into 11 states – as you watch a reenactment of the event and experience interactive exhibits such as a step-in volcano model and working seismograph. After being blown away by Mount St. Helens, venture west to the rugged coast of Olympic National Park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve, the park contains no fewer than three distinct ecosystems.
Meal(s): Full Breakfast / Dinner
Hotel: Kalaloch Lodge
Day 8 -
Explore the beautiful Hoh Rainforest, Lake Crescent, then onwards to Seattle, WA.
National Parks
Enter the beautiful Hoh Rainforest, one of the world’s few (as well as the largest) temperate rainforests and trek to the eerie “Hall of Mosses” with trees and branches dripping with moss. Then make a stop at dazzling Lake Crescent before leaving Olympic National Park. Sensational views of the Seattle skyline unfold before you as you make your way by ferry across Puget Sound into the Emerald City. Once ashore in this hip and vibrant town, stop at the historic Pike Place Market, the nation’s oldest farmers market, where the fish fly low – from one fishmonger’s hands to the next! No visit to Seattle would be complete without making the trip to the top of the Space Needle, the iconic landmark of the great Pacific Northwest. This evening, kick up your heels at a fun-filled Farewell Dinner party – here’s to your exciting Northwest adventures and newfound friends!
Meal(s): Full Breakfast / Farewell Dinner
Hotel: Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue
Day 9 -
Time to bid farewell to your fellow adventurers as you take your complimentary transfer to Seattle International Airport.
Bed & Breakfast
Time to bid farewell to your fellow adventurers as you take your complimentary transfer to Seattle International Airport.
Meal(s): Full Breakfast
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