Posts Tagged ‘timber towns’

Oakridge, Here We Come!

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

We’re heading to Oakridge, Oregon (pop. 3,755), the recently coined, “Mountain Biking Capital of the Northwest” in a few days.  I’m getting really excited to dig into to the once prosperous timber town, which has since, like so many other small towns across Oregon, fallen on hard times .  But as is often the case, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.  More on that later. (more…)