Join us on a leisurely Sunday drive to a small farm town festival in eastern Oregon for the Dufur Threshing Bee
The Dufur Threshing Bee is a yearly celebration where local farmers and ranchers bring out their antique farm equipment to demonstrate the old harvesting and threshing farming techniques. There will be steam engines, horse drawn farm equipment and a tractor pull competition. There are also artisan craft booths, a quilt show, car show, yard sales and food vendors. You can also visit the Dufur Historical Society Museum to tour the old one room schoolhouse, log cabin, cookhouse and blacksmith shop. Of course, most of the fun is getting there.
The plan is to meet at 9:00 and start at 9:30 am from the Lewis & Clark State Recreation Site east of Troutdale. We will be traveling around the south side of Mt Hood through the Devil’s Backbone, along the Mt Hood Highway through Government Camp, north on Hwy 35 and then east on spirited Forest Rd 44 (Camp Baldwin/Dufur Rd) to Dufur.
After a reasonable time at the Threshing Bee, we head back through Tygh Valley and west along twisty scenic Wamic Forest Rd 48 and the Mt Hood Highway towards Portland with a stop at The Stockyard in Wamic for a late lunch.
