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Wasco is close to a diverse array of activities. The sparsely traveled yet well maintained roads make the area popular for bicycle, motorcycle and auto touring. The Sherman County website has suggested itineraries and maps. Photographers are enticed by the rolling wheat fields, old buildings and barns, and wind towers (see our photo gallery). Fishing, hunting, rafting, windsurfing, museums and wine tasting are also close at hand.
NORTH - The Columbia
River is approximately 10 miles north of Wasco. The Columbia River Gorge is a major transportation route through Oregon.
Barge traffic is common on the river, trains travel along the Oregon and Washington banks, and trucks travel along I-84.
The Columbia is known for fishing, wind surfing, and the wineries of the Gorge. Maryhill Museum and the Stonehenge Memorial are just across the river in Washington.
WEST - About 10 miles to the west
is the Deshutes River, with its WORLD FAMOUS TROUT AND STEELHEAD FISHING, and challenging rafting. The adverturous can
hike, bike or raft 23 river miles from Macks Canyon to the mouth of the Deschutes.
EAST - Another acclaimed
fishing and rafting river, the John Day, lies 15 miles to the east of Wasco. The John Day is the
longest remaining free-flowing river in the western United States. It hosts the largest WILD SPRING AND FALL CHINOOK
RUNS in northeast Oregon, has what may be the Columbia River basin's healthiest run of WILD SUMMER STEELHEAD, and
is home to some of the best SMALLMOUTH BASS fishing in the Northwest. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
is in the process of buying property to create what will eventually be the state's largest recreation site: 16,000
acres along a 16-mile stretch of the lower John Day River. The property is expected to open as a state park in 2013.
SOUTH - To the south, along Highway 97, lie
the Sherman County Museum in Moro, the Oregon Raceway Park in Grass Valley, and Shaniko - Oregon's best known ghost town.
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