On your bikes! In Oregon

Just when you thought there could not be another variation on bicycle tours, along comes Bicycle Adventures a Pacific Northwest-based active travel company, announces a brand-new way to cycle from the foothills of Oregon's Cascades to the Pacific passing through 21 covered bridges and averaging 25-50 miles each day.

While it's anyone's guess which are the true kissin' bridges, cyclists will be encouraged to snuggle up to trusses that span tributaries of, among others, the Willamette that gives its name to one of the West's most important agricultural valleys.

The trip begins and ends in Eugene, home of the University of Oregon Ducks (think football) and Nike. A highlight of the tour is dinner at King Estate, a premier certified organic, sustainable winery in the Willamette Valley.

The company also offers another round of its popular Pub and Pedal Tour culminating with the 25th Annual Oregon Brewer's Festival in Portland.

This tour is a five-day beer and biking marathon averaging 45 miles per day, beginning and ending in Portland and spanning the idyllic Oregon Coast to the hop-vines of the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Gorge. The finale is the Brewer's Festival in Portland's Waterfront Park.

Stops include Astoria, the oldest settlement in the West, a tour of Heater Allen's artisan brewery with samples of handcrafted lagers and Independence's Rogue Farms Micro Hopyard, on land that once hosted the old Alluvial Hop Farm. Independence was for a great many years the "Hop Capitol of the World." Rogue's Micro Hopyard is one of the few remaining outposts of a very traditional way of life.

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