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Adventures & Fun Things at Foster Lake Inn Lodge
• Enjoy one-of-a-kind, small town tours, faires, festivals & annual events
• Tour depot & boxcar museums, covered bridges & Oregon's rich heritage
• Play up close & personal in the wealth of Oregon's green & blue outdoors
• Hike through old growth forests & wilderness in Willamette National Forest
• Wander for wine tasting, dining & antique shopping in the Willamette Valley
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Catch glimpses of Sweet Home's past in painted murals on downtown buildings
"Historical Logging" – Larry Kangus 1994
A Maely brothers' steam donkey pulled by oxen
& early loggers showing a huge Douglas fir with
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6281 Highway 20
Sweet Home, Oregon 97386
Phone–541-401-3293
FosterLakeBandB@comcast.net
INN ROOMS & RATES
"Holly Blue Agate" Master Suite (Private Bath) —$99
"Plume Agate" Queen Bedroom (Private Bath) —$69
—Or 2 Bedrooms (Shared Bath)—$109
"Carnelian Agate" Queen & "Hickory Gem" Twin–$89
VACATION RETREAT LODGE
Master Suite & 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bath
Parlor —Dining —Meeting Room
Daily— $250-$350 (2 Day min.—$500)
Major Holidays — Higher Rates
Lower Winter & Weekly Rates |
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Enjoy one-of-a-kind, small town tours, faires, festivals & annual events
Keep out of Mountain Mud, catch Kokanee & trout in the Free Fishing Derby & watch top country music stars at Oregon Jamboree
March
April
- Rock & Gem Show – Sweet Home
May
- Carriage Me Back Days – Brownsville

Ride in a horse drawn carriage thru this small town historical drama of life
June
- Free Fishing Derby – Foster Lake
- Grandpa Tom's Get Together Classic Car Show – Sweet Home
- Strawberry Festival – Lebanon
- Pioneer Picnic – Brownsville
July
- Sportsman's Holiday – Sweet Home
- Calapooia Roundup & Rodeo – Sweet Home
- A Wheelin' Rodeo – Sweet Home
- Annual 4X4 Truck Show – Sweet Home
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August
- Arts & Craft Fair – Sweet Home
- Oregon Jamboree – Sweet Home

2007 crowds at the Northwest's Premier Country Music & Camping Festival
- Antique Faire ョ Brownsville

Courtney Creek one-room school house
December
- Annual Lighted Parade ョ Sweet Home
- Holiday Bazaar – Sweet Home
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Tour depot & boxcar museums, covered bridges & Oregon's rich heritage
Touch local history at East Linn Historical Museum, tour Boston-Thompson's Mills, & walk in Moyer House
- Touch local history back to 1852... Visit Sweet Home's

East Linn Historical Museum
- Tour Boston-Thompson's Mills — Oldest operating water-powered grist mill in Oregon — Shedd

Thompson's Flouring Mills, circa 1941
- See where they shot the 1986 movie "Stand by Me" — Brownsville
- Stop in Scio's Train Depot Museum
- Photograph the painted building murals — Sweet Home
- Watch silent movies in the train boxcar theater at Linn County's Museum — Brownsville
- Drive through 5 Covered Bridges in Scio's farm country
- Walk on self-guided tours in Albany's historic downtown
- See 12 foot ceilings, while Italian marble fireplace & carved walnut banisters in Moyer House — Brownsville

Elegant Italianate Villa style Moyer House, ca. 1881
- Bike or walk in 4 local Covered Bridges — Sweet Home & Crawfordsville
- Buy a souvenir of Big Red — Scio Feed & Country Store
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Play up close & personal in the wealth of Oregon's green & blue outdoors
Play over miles & miles of endless fishing, boating, swimming, camping, biking, hiking & walking
- Watch salmon, steelhead, trout & sturgeon at Roaring River (Scio) & South Santiam (Foster) Fish Hatcheries

Rainbow trout pens at
Roaring River Fish Hatchery
- Stroll across Clear Lake's huge springs & lava crossings
- Experience the majesty of Cascadia Park & Soda Creek Falls
- Drift the South Santiam River down to Waterloo Park
- View spectacular

McDowell Creek Waterfalls
- Tour Oregon Farm Country's rolling hills & rich valleys
- Picnic & fish at Green Peter Lake
- Play 18 holes of Championship Golf at

Mallard Creek Golf Course
in Cascades' rolling foothills
- Swim, cruise, ski, play & fish at

Foster Lake – Just across the street from Foster Lake B&B Lodge
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Take guided & unguided hikes & expeditions – easy to difficult – or go on Berry Pickin' & Bird Watchin' adventures
Visit Sweet Home Ranger District Office or website for details & schedules
- Wildflower hikes – Easy to difficult

Blue Flax at Iron Mountain
- Hiking to a prehistoric cave with 9,000 year old carvings – Read story in Sweet Home News
- Mountain heritage hikes
- Calapooia Indian relics
- Hikes along historic

Santiam Wagon Road
- Old growth forest hikes
- Berry Picking Bonanza
- Quartzville gold & ghost town on Quartzville Road Back Country Byway
- Bird Watching Hikes
- CCC Alumni Picnic
- Rockhounder's Delights
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Wander for wine tasting, dining & antique shopping in the Willamette Valley
Dine Italian at Mama Linda's Great Pasta Co., taste Pinot Gris at Willamette Valley Vineyards & buy art at Living Rock Studio Museum
Wine Tasting
- Harris Bridge Vineyard – Philomath
- Tyee Wine Cellars – Corvallis
- Willamette Valley Vineyards – Turner
- The Wine Vault / Pheasant Court Winery – Philomath
Dining
- A&W Drive In – Carhop Service – Sweet Home
- Point Restaurant& Lounge – Sweet Home
- Skyline Inn – Sweet Home
Antique Road of Linn County
- 1st & 2nd Avenue – Albany
- Antique Street Faire – Brownsville
- Courtney Creek – Lebanon
- Everything But-Kitchen Sink – Scio
- Halsey Country Auction Gallery – Halsey
- J & J Antiques Ranch Shop – Scio
- Oldays Antiques & Collectibles – Lebanon
- Rikkity Antiques – Brownsville
- Treasure Chest – Lebanon
- Vintage Chic – Sweet Home
- Willamette to Westport – Lebanon
Farm Stands & Visits
- Adair's Orchards – Crabtree
- Albany Saturday Farmers' Market
- Antique Apples – Sweet Home
- Brownsville Saturday Farmers' Market
- Grandpa's Farm Stand – Crabtree
- Humming Angels Alpacas – Lacomb
Gardens & Shops
Art & Specialty Shopping
- Calapooia Quilt Shop – Brownsville
- Don Ross Art Studio – Sweet Home
- Living Rock Studio Museum & Gift Shop – Brownsville
- Scio Feed & Country Store – Scio
- Seamingly Creative – Sweet Home
- Ten Thousand Villages – Lebanon
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