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 ...

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 ...

HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — 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, ...

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 ...

The lower Columbia River Gorge has become an all-season playground with windsurfers, breweries and wineries, long scenic drives, waterfalls, stellar views of Mounts Adams and Hood, rainforests, ...

HOOD RIVER - 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, owners Boyd ...