20 | Play Cowboy
Courtesy of Seattle Metropolitan Magazine www.seattlemet.com
The Pendleton Roundup in Pendleton, Oregon, is rodeo done in a huge way, with parades, a cowboy breakfast, music, art, and a pageant of Native American arts and culture. The rodeo itself draws the top cowboys in the land. The stately Pendleton House (541-276-8581; pendletonhousebnb.com) on Main Street serves full breakfasts and has an English garden and a wide front porch. Elaborate tunnels under the city once housed Pendleton’s seamy side, and Pendleton Underground Tours (800-226-6398; pendletonundergroundtours.org) offers narrated tours year-round, with period-dressed mannequins lending an eerie realism to the former brothels and card rooms. Need a woolly Pendleton blanket to keep your cowboy warm? Tours of the Pendleton Woolen Mill (pendleton-usa.com) are held on weekdays.
Drive time 4 hours, 27 minutes
When to go Second week of September
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