1. Trillium Festival
City: Lake Oswego, OR
Category: Annual Events & Festivals
Telephone: (503) 636-4398
Address: 11321 Southwest Terwilliger Blvd.
Description: The Trillium Festival celebrates our native Oregon plant at this quiet 635-acre park, tucked away between Lewis & Clark College and Lake Oswego. The free event features a variety of nature-related and craft activities for children at the visitor/learning center. Visitors can purchase plants, trees, and shrubs to help support the park’s educational programs and maintenance. There are easy walks along the park’s rolling trails and streams and food and music for the body and soul.
2. Lake Oswego Golf Course
City: Lake Oswego, OR
Category: Golf
Telephone: (503) 636-8228
Address: 17525 Southwest Stafford Rd.
Description: With an abundance of trees, water, and hills, this splendid 18-hole executive course is both challenging and lovely. Local golfers find the topography the perfect place to practice their short game, and though it’s an executive course, Lake Oswego Golf Course has the reputation of being a challenge. The pro shop carries great equipment and the 19th Green Cafe & Grill offers an extensive menu as well. With just 2,693 yards, there are no golf carts here, but lessons are available.
3. Hanna Andersson Outlet Store
City: Lake Oswego, OR
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (503) 697-1953
Address: 7 Monroe Pkwy.
Description: The long johns, dresses, tights, clogs, and sportswear you and your children have come to know and love are here offered at a reduced price. Hanna Andersson is known for its high-quality, Swedish-style soft clothing in wonderful colors and patterns. (See the following Clothing section and the Kidstuff chapter for more information.)
4. Norm Thompson Outlet Store
City: Lake Oswego, OR
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (503) 697-2931
Address: 9 Monroe Pkwy.
Description: Next to the Columbia Sportswear Outlet Store, these stores are worth the extra effort to find. The Mail Order Outlet Store is a Norm Thompson spin-off, with an eclectic mix of clothes, accessories, gadgets, household goods, cleaning solutions, cookware, outdoor clothes, and other things from Norm’s lesser-known catalogs, Early Winters and Solutions.