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Timberline Lodge

The grand old lady of Oregon lodges, Timberline sits at the 6,000-foot level on the snowy flank of 11,249-foot Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest peak. It was begin in 1936 -- FDR himself dedicated it in 1937 -- as a Works Progress Administration project and retains its old-time elegance even today. The lobby is full of WPA art, including several paintings by Oregon painter Charles Heaney.

The lodge's exterior -- though not its interior -- served as the haunted hotel in Stanley Kubrick's movie of Stephen King's "The Shining."

 

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