I am planning to visit Oregon and Washington from Aug last week to Sept 1st week.
Here is my itinerary, I am listing down all places planning to visit, and I spoke to guided tour companies to book the all day hike tour.

Fly to Portland and reaching early morning

1st day. Drive half way to Crater Lake around 140 miles for 2hrs then take rest, start again in the morning to Crater Lake 100 miles then spend couple of hours.

2nd 3rd day. From crater lake start driving to Mt. Hood (240 miles) , stay overnight at Mt. Hood and next day morning take guided hike tour, if possible visit adventure park on the same or next day, (Columbus gorge is also in my mind for next day but not yet decided)

3rd day. start driving to Mt Rainier and planning to book the hotel near paradise, but I don't know I will get it or not, if not I will stay near the park on the route of guide tour shuttle, planning to take full day tour from 1pm to 10pm and come back to the hotel

4th day. Cover Seattle local attractions and start driving to north cascades 150 miles, planning to book overnight base camp tour.

5th day. North cascades, not decided what to do (please advice)

6th day planning to visit Olympic national park (please advise)

I am not sure all above is possible or not, please post your opinion as well as suggestions/experiences in Oregon/Washington

I am still thinking whether to cover Crater Lake or not, I could save one day time if I avoid driving 250 miles up/down from Portland to Crater Lake. I want to relax and explore places instead of spending time in driving.

Have you visited this area previously?

Round trip, Crater Lake is a 500-mile detour that doesn't fit well into a 6-day trip to the NW.

It will be easy to include the Columbia River Gorge in your trip. From Mt Hood drive to Hood River and then west on I-84--checking out waterfalls along the way.

HTTY

Thanks for your advice htty, crater lake is out of my list now, other than what I listed in my itinerary do you suggest anything else, I already booked my flight tickets, got very good deal from spirit airlines, I have never been to these places so I am planing to book guided hike tours even they are little bit expensive though

I think you have to scratch at least 1 or maybe 2 of your National Parks off the list. Crater Lake is a jewel of the Cascades. The thing that I don't like about Olympic is that it has no through roads. If you drive in you have to take the same road back out. Never been to North Cascades but it can't be any more beautiful than Crater Lake.
My plan would be to land at PDX and take I-84 east to Hood River and then Rt. 35 past the east side of Mt. Hood to US 26 east to Madras. Take US 97 south staying in either Bend or LaPine. Next day get an early start to Crater Lake through the north entrance. Exit by the north entrance and head the 84 miles west on Rt. 138 to Roseburg.
From there zoom north on I-5 to Washington to see whichever of the other parks you want to see or just see Seattle.
There is plenty do do/see in Washington and Oregon to fill 6 days in each state.

Thanks Tom for your advice, Olympic NP is out of list, I have to think about the crater lake.

If I were you, I would plan this one-week trip around as many of the following as you can do comfortably: Oregon Coast, Columbia River Gorge, and Mt. Hood in Oregon; and Mt. Rainier, Seattle, San Juan Island (or Orcas Island), and the Olympic Peninsula (including Hood Canal, Hurricane Ridge, Lake Crescent, and Marymere Falls) in Washington.

I hope you have a clear day for Mt. Rainier because there is little point driving all the way there if you can't see the mountain up close. At Mt Rainier, the drive from Paradise to Box Canyon gives excellent views of the Cascades.

Another way to see the Cascades without driving Highway 20 is to do the loop that goes over Stevens Pass (Highway 2), Blewett Pass (Highway 97), and Snoqualmie Pass (I-90).

HTTY

Thanks htty, I think I have to redo my itinerary,

As always - so many choices and so little time, and one can never do/see everything.

You can make Bend from Portland fairly easily - assuming you arrive in Portland by at least by mid-day. And going out hiways 26 to Mt. Hood (an hour or so from Portland airport) - and then down 97 to Bend (3 more hours) - is pretty/scenic in most places -- so it should keep you awake.

Actually - you could even stay in a nice cabin out by Pauline Lake if you wanted to the first night, which is a little south and east of Bend. http://www.paulinalakelodge.com/

From there - visit/tour Crater Lake the next day (3 hour or so drive to CL) - and then take the scenic drive along the North Umpqua River to Roseburg, which is another two hours - plus a bit more if you stop to enjoy some of the beautiful waterfalls.

From Roseburg - you could head up I-5 to Eugene (an hour or so from Roseburg) - and stay there the 2nd night and head north toward Mt. Ranier the next day - or if you are still feeling adventurous - drive from Eugene over to the Coast to Florence - which is little over an hour.

After a lovely night on the Oregon Coast (your second night so far) - drive up to say Lincoln City - (only about 75 miles - but a bit slower on the Coastal road - so plan on 2 hours or so) - which some think is the prettiest part of the Coast and then head up to Portland (another two hours) - and on toward Mt. Ranier, a couple more hours.

While it is also a relatively long day of driving - you will enjoy beautiful scenery along the way, and if you get tired - just find some place to pull off before you head on your way the next day.

If you make it to Paradise - or close to Mt. Ranier - you will have covered a lot in 3 days/2 nights - with 3 or 4 more nights/days to kick around equally beautiful Washington State.

BTW - another option is when you arrive at Portland - drive from the airport out the Gorge - stopping at Multnomah Falls http://www.multnomahfallslodge.com/ and the other waterfalls -along the frontage road - and then continue on to Hood River and then south an hour to our favorite place - Timberline Lodge - on the south slope of Mt. Hood. http://www.timberlinelodge.com/

After a wonderful swim/hot tub and great dinner - including an up close and personal view of the mountain/glacier - and also from a window table at the restaurant - looking down the Cascades all the way to Bend (and the snow capped peaks of Mt. Jefferson and the 3 sisters dotting the skyline) - the next day - it's only 3 hours down to Bend.

Thank you tom, everything seems doable in 7 day itinerary, I am travelling from Texas to Oregon reaching 12.30am early morning, I thought I will drive for (100 miles)2hrs to Eugene, in the morning I will start from Eugene to crater lake 3hrs drive, I think I can make it to crater by 9am.

From crater to bend is 2hrs and bend to Mt. Hood is 2 hrs. Again, by night I will be reaching Mt. Hood, and then I can follow my rest of the itinerary covering all other places in next 6 days.

If you are driving Eugene to Crater Lake is the most scenic way is along the Umqua River- and if you have time there are some easy waterfall hikes along the way- Watson Falls and Tokatee Falls are very nice- just did Watson Falls a week ago.

I would fly into Seattle and do just Rainier, Olympics, North Cascades and Seattle

Or fly into Portland and do Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, Columbia Gorge, perhaps drive to Crater Lake.

Crater Lake, in my mind, is just as powerful of a first view as the Grand Canyon. It is out of your way a lot though.

Do you not want to see any of the Oregon Coast?


Anyway, I would just visit around Portland or just around Seattle-not both. There is plenty at either place to keep you busy. Plus, you can get a day or two in of either city too. Lot of neat things at both. Pike Market in Seattle or Rose Garden in Portland for example(plus a lot more).

I think you will be much happier allowing enough time at each spot, rather than just checking things off.

since sunbum mentioned the waterfalls,

If you like waterfalls, I would go with Oregon. There seems to be waterfalls everywhere. I'm not talking about waterfalls, I mean really awesome spectacular falls. We saw the two he mentioned, but for some reason didn't get a photo of those two(I think we left the camera in the car). They were really nice ones. The Columbia Gorge has plenty of waterfalls to pick from there too.

Sunbum statement about it being scenic is on the money too. Very nice drive.

Assuming you have a cell phone - driving down I-5 at night/early morning is no big deal - and you will be in Eugene in about 2 hours and can sleep soundly after you arrive.

spiro- agree Oregon has an abundance of waterfalls- I just hiked Silver Falls State Park a couple of weeks ago and it was more than spectacular- lots of water coming over all the falls.

also agree with Spiro to see one area or the other - not both. Otherwise you will just be doing drive-bys and not really have time to appreciate.

Thank you all for your suggestions, I agree with spiro and sunbum instead of trying to cover both and spending time in driving stick to oregon or washington. If I decided to stick with oregon then I would like to do the oregon coast also, spiro please suggest some

Here is one of my favorite places on the Oregon Coast - the Surfrider Resort - just south of Lincoln City - overlooking Depoe Bay. http://surfriderresort.com/

It's reasonable, has fabulous views, a good restaurant - and there is a park by the nearby river - with hiking choices around the area.

There are also a couple of wineries nearby Depoe Bay http://surfriderresort.com/aspx/m/730405 if that interests you - and there are also some good wineries outside/west of Eugene - about an hour from very cute - Florence Oregon.
http://www.florenceoregon.net/

Finally i decided to stick with (Mt hood, Mt Rainier, seattle, North cascades, leavenworth,triliccum village, portland), any adivce about where to stay, in between portland and mt hood for 3 nt's, between seattle and mt rainier 1 nt

The Hood River Inn (Best Western) looks great. http://www.hoodriverinn.com/?gclid=C...FcsHRQodKF4A1Q
If you could get a night at Timberline Lodge you would get to see Mt. Hood close up.
Have you looked for lodging in Paradise in Mt. Rainier?