Sitting majestically on the banks of the Columbia River, amid lush greenery and beside a cascading waterfall, the Columbia Gorge Hotel has held its place in history since 1921. Once known as the ...

Vijay Patel found Hood River’s Columbia Gorge Hotel grounds clogged with limbs and the gardens going to seed when he first looked over the place with the intent to buy in February 2009. Billed as the ...

l lit up last Saturday with its traditional Festival of Lights celebration, bright evidence of its comeback from a rough patch three years ago. Holiday music drifted down the Hood River hotel's ...

HOOD RIVER, Ore. — The Columbia Gorge Hotel was built in 1921 as the “Waldorf of the West” and housed the likes of Rudolph Valentino, Shirley Temple, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt. Now, ...

HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Tourists may come for the famed windsurfing, but they stay at the Columbia Gorge Hotel for the romance. Perched on a cliff overlooking the Columbia River, this boutique hotel built ...

HOOD RIVER, Ore. -- A Pacific Northwest icon shuttered months ago by foreclosure could reopen as soon as early September. The Columbia Gorge Hotel will be run by Portland-based North Pacific ...

A crowd gathers at the front of Skamania Lodge to watch a falconry show. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) This is a "best of the gorge" lodging list, first published in 2011 when I did another gorge ...

PORTLAND (AP) — The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer after it closed last January. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The ...

When it comes to scenic greenery, the Columbia River Gorge between Washington and Oregon is one of the best sites in the Pacific Northwest. With rolling hills, steep cliffs, Oregon's tallest waterfall ...