Welcome to The Dalles Town Talk. One of Oregon’s oldest towns, The Dalles was where the Oregon Trail met the river — emigrants rafted from here or took the Barlow Road around Mt. Hood. These days it’s sunshine (nearly 300 days of it, the locals say), cherry country, the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, and a downtown with real history in its bones. The dam hums, the river runs wide, and the east Gorge light does the rest.
This is The Dalles’ front porch. Pioneer stories, cherry memories, hometown talk — all welcome below.