SUGARPINE LORE
Sugarpine Drive-In opened in this month and year.
What is July of 2018?
Rainbow sherbet bites, ube sago, fresh mango and pandan-candied coconut made this colorful Pride Month parfait.
What is the Rainbow Brite Parfait?
Plunging a combined 620 feet in two tiers, this is Oregon’s tallest waterfall and the Gorge’s most visited attraction.
What is Multnomah Falls?
Tillamook, Shuksan and Hood are locally adapted, June-bearing cultivars of this fleeting Oregon favorite.
What are strawberries?
Despite being Oregon’s largest city, Portland loses the capital-city title to this Willamette Valley neighbor.
What is Salem?
Sugarpine sits at the confluence of these two rivers in Troutdale.
What are the Sandy and Columbia rivers?
Puerto Rican smoked chicken, guava barbecue sauce, sofrito slaw, refrito de habichuelas, mojo isleño aioli and plantain chips filled this summer sandwich.
What is the Boriqua BBQ Chicken Sandwich?
Completed in 1918, this octagonal observatory and rest stop crowns a basalt promontory 733 feet above the Columbia.
What is the Vista House?
In 1875, horticulturist Seth Lewelling named an Oregon-developed variety of this fruit after his Manchurian foreman, Ah Bing.
What are cherries?
Oregon’s official state animal is this ecosystem-engineering rodent, which also gives the state its nickname.
What is the beaver?
Before Sugarpine moved in, fishing guide Jack Glass operated this snack-and-tackle business from the restored gas station.
What is Jack’s Snack N’ Tackle?
Northwest cherries, cherry-almond brownie, sour-cherry jubilee sauce and saffron-chile almond crunch starred in this celebratory sundae.
What is Cherries Jubilee Sundae?
Named for an Indigenous legend involving a great natural crossing, this modern span connects Cascade Locks with Washington.
What is the Bridge of the Gods?
This ocean-going rainbow trout returns to the Sandy River in distinct winter and summer runs—and, unlike Pacific salmon, may survive spawning and return again.
What is steelhead?
Filling the collapsed caldera of Mount Mazama, this deep water lake is the centerpiece of Oregon’s only national park.
What is Crater Lake?
Originally constructed for motorists in the 1920s, the building that became Sugarpine operated under this gas-and-cabins name.
What is Staten Gas & Cabins?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Smoked pork loin simmered in white wine, garlic and paprika joined roasted-pepper relish, mustard barbecue sauce and piri-piri aioli in this Portuguese-inspired sandwich.
This Oregon city is considered the eastern gateway to the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.
What is The Dalles?
Known scientifically as Cantharellus formosus, this wild-foraged ingredient was designated Oregon’s official state mushroom in 1999.
What is the Pacific golden chanterelle?
Once a timber town, this high-desert city on the Deschutes River is now famous for breweries, mountain biking and outdoor recreation.
What is Bend?
This construction electrician turned longtime Troutdale public servant helped secure the Sandy River property that became the city’s first park before serving in both chambers of the Oregon Legislature.
Who was Glenn Otto?
Spicy greens, grilled spring onion, white bean and leek purée, Pinot Gris–plumped sultanas, blood orange, pimentón-almond tuile and salbitxada made up this Catalan-inspired salad.
What is Ensalada Calçotada?
The Columbia River originates in this Canadian province.
What is British Columbia?
After 13 generations of selective breeding, Cornell plant breeder Michael Mazourek created this pepper with the floral, tropical character of a habanero but none of its heat.
What is a Habanada?
A best-of-three coin toss reportedly prevented Portland from being named after this other New England city.
What is Boston?