New Website Helping Car-free Curious Tourists Experience The Gorge

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Written By Megan Ramey

New Website Helping Car-free Curious Tourists Experience the Gorge

This week, I was proud to publish a site that took a week a design, but over a year a committee of the Columbia Gorge Tourism Alliance, a ragtag team of transportation geeks, to plan. And little did I know, all our family explorations of our new Gorge home, would prove fruitful in terms of a great photography collection from my husband, Kyle Ramey.

The site was timed with the launch of the West End Transit (WET) shuttle to Dog Mountain Trailhead, an extremely popular hike in the Columbia Gorge for which we designed a car-free itinerary.

Map that I designed for the car-free itinerary for Dog Mountain Hike.

Map that I designed for the car-free itinerary for Dog Mountain Hike.

The site has trip planning resources for Portland as a launchpad, Cascade Locks and Hood River, as well as a handy Google Map of transportation options, for those that are geographically inclined like me.

We thank BikePortland and Friends of the Columbia Gorge for early shout outs, and on behalf of my fellow geeks at the Columbia Gorge Tourism Alliance, I hope this site inspires many tourists to rethink the way they arrive and experience the Gorge!

Megan Ramey
Life Mission: providing a gateway drug to the bike curious. Change makes this lady happy! Whether it's the beautiful, ever changing four seasons of New England, discovering hidden pockets of cities by bike or the shifting household dynamic that comes with hosting multiple Airbnb guests; Megan thrives off having new experiences, meeting strangers and learning. It is for this reason that she launched Bikabout and combined her love of travel, cities, community, and connecting businesses to guest experiences through the lens of biking. Megan has served on the board of LivableStreets Alliance since 2009, as well as sits on the Cambridge Bike Committee and Boston Bikes Advisory Board. She listens to Seattle's KEXP while working, has a pretty serious girl crush on Janette Sadik-Khan and loves good design. In the Winter, you'll find her cross country skiing, using trains or ferry to get rural in the Fall and Spring and during Summer, it's finding swimming holes, camping spots and outdoor city events. Megan's two adventurers in crime are her tenacious daughter, Annika, and a photographer, beer snob and guitar player of a husband, Kyle.
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