6281  Highway  20
Sweet Home,  Oregon  97386
Phone–541-401-3293
FosterLakeBandB@comcast.net

Updated — March 27, 2010 8:11 PM  

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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
 

Catch glimpses of Sweet Home's past in painted murals on downtown buildings

historical logging painted mural "Historical Logging" – Larry Kangus 1994
A Maely brothers' steam donkey pulled by oxen
& early loggers showing a huge Douglas fir with
a wedge cut big enough to fit a full grown man.

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
 
 
 

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

August

  • Arts & Craft Fair – Sweet Home
  • Oregon Jamboree – Sweet Home
    Oregon Jamboree crowds
    2007 crowds at the Northwest's Premier Country Music & Camping Festival
     
  • Antique Faire ョ Brownsville

 

 


Courtney Creek one-room school house
Courtney Creek one-room school house

December

  • Annual Lighted Parade ョ Sweet Home
  • Holiday Bazaar – Sweet Home
 
 
 
 

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
    1881 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

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 – Roaring river Fish Hatchery – Scio
    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
 
 
 
 

Hike through old growth forests & wilderness in Willamette National Forest

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

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