Weekend trip to Salem, Oregon

Salem is the capital city of Oregon. It is a scenic city located one hour away from the ocean, and one hour away from the mountains. This blog will walk you through a two day itinerary in Salem, Oregon for your weekend trip.

Summary

Day 1

  • Silver Falls State Park

    • South falls

    • Lower south falls

  • Fossil hunting at sweet home

  • Marco polo restaurant

Day 2

  • Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge

  • Shopping


Day 1

Silver Falls State Park

This is a state park with 10 beautiful waterfalls. It is 20 miles away from Salem. There is a 7.9 mile loop with 600 feet elevation gain called trail of ten falls. It takes you to all the ten waterfalls. You can also shorten the hike by turning back at any point.

South falls

This is the most famous waterfall in Silver falls state park. It is also the first one you will see along the trail of ten falls. It is about a 0.45 mile walk from the south falls trailhead to the south fall.


Lower south falls

Keep walking for another 0.8 miles, you will see another waterfall called lower south falls.


You can check out this article about turn-by-turn directions for the whole trail of ten falls.

Fossil hunting at sweet home

There is a lot of petrified wood in this place. There is no time limit for how long you can stay there. When you leave, they will charge you by the weight of the fossils you collected.


Here are some of the fossils we digged out from there:

Marco polo restaurant 

There are lots of vegan options here, including vegan cakes. One thing that is nice about this place is that it has a wide choice of cuisines.


Day 2

Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge

This is a beautiful place for hiking.

Shopping

Since Oregon has no sales tax, if you want to buy some clothes, you can check out Woodburn Premium Outlets.



If you are flying in from Portland and want to check out things to do in Portland as well, please refer to:

Two day itinerary in Portland OR

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