A Mt. Hood – Parkdale, Oregon B&B
Moms will love this. Six plus inches of new snow on Mt Hood and surrounding sno-parks. Make your reservation today for a stay at the Old Parkdale Inn and take mom up for some awesome spring snow conditions. We’ll provide a bottle of wine, fresh flowers, and two Old Parkdale Inn wine glasses for your [...]
Snow levels dropped to about 3000′ last night just above the orchards which sit in the Upper Hood River Valley at about 2000′. The valley beekeepers just put the hives into the blooming orchards this morning. Hope it warms up a bit so those busy bees can do what they do best. The Old Parkdale Inn [...]
One thing about having a big house with big gardens, there’s lots of room for family and friends. And this weekend a family reunion is planned. For our family. About 35 family members, some we have never met will attend in honor of my mother-in-law who celebrated 91 years in January. We even found a [...]
Frost fans are on this morning. Another sign of spring in the Hood River Valley. They came on about 4 am and as I type they are going off, one at a time, and silence is returning to the orchards. Blossoms are really beginning to open and if today is a warm as yesterday quite [...]
Sunny yesterday, rain this morning, throw in a thunder clap or two. It’s spring weather in the Hood River Valley! One thing consistent are the blossoms. Over 15,000 acres of apples, pears, cherries, stone fruit all blooming as I type. The elevation gain from Hood River, 90 feet above sea level, to the Upper Hood River Valley, [...]
Where can you ski in the morning and windsurf in the afternoon? Here near the Hood River Valley, of course. We are only 19 miles from Mt Hood Meadows Ski Resort which will continue operation through May, weekends only. There’s always Timberline Ski Area, where skiing on the Palmer Glacier is available year round. After a [...]
We sure do! Our gardens are a flurry of avian activity! Sparrows, finches, blackbirds, chickadees…the list goes on. Our most colorful visitors so far this spring have been the Evening Grosbeaks. They are a beautiful bird, don’t you think? And we have had at least 50 feeding regularly at our many feeding stations. Our gardens [...]
For years I have been composting, recycling, growing organic vegies and raising our own organic meats. When our kids were little we belonged to a preschool coop and every six months or so us moms would do a kids clothes exchange. We belonged to a food buying group, buying in bulk and dividing 50# of flour, huge wheels [...]
Our guests this weekend were the winners in the 2009 Oregon Bounty Getaway Sweepstakes. The grand prize included dinner and accommodations at Timberline Lodge which sits at the 6000′ elevation on the south slopes of Mount Hood. This historic lodge, built in the early 1930′s, was funded by the Works Progress Adminstration Fund. Glass mosaics, [...]
I love our bed and breakfast, The Old Parkdale Inn, the Hood River Valley, our home, Mt. Hood. But sometimes I need to escape. Take a little road trip. A change of scenery. And with Steve gone off to another job and a new car to test drive, I decided to head out to Eastern Oregon [...]
Social Media at the Old Parkdale Inn Bed and Breakfast:
It was 9 years ago that I went to my first Innkeeper's Conference. It just amazes me how marketing has changed, moving rapidly toward more and more internet presense. I've been to a few conferenc...
Geocaching near the Old Parkdale Inn Bed and Breakfast:
I have acquired a new hobby. Or should I say an obsession. Geocaching. "Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS device...
Snowshoe, Cross Country, and Downhill ~ All Near the Old Parkdale Inn:
My favorite is snowshoe. Never really did too much downhill as a child and now I don't like to fall down as much and speed is not a necessity! So we snowshoe. For us there is nothing better tha...Old Parkdale Inn
4932 Baseline Rd
Parkdale, Oregon 97041
phone: 541-352-5551
email: parkdale@hoodriverlodging.com