4 Play » Cowboy dreams and trail rides
This is cowboy country, from the Sisters Rodeo in June to the horse stables, trail rides and pack trips at Black Butte Ranch for little buckaroos and grown-ups alike. An intermediate “Hole in the Wall Gang” ride ($70), for example, takes you on a 7-mile trot along manzanita-lined trails, across Indian Ford Creek and around Glaze Meadow to catch spectacular mountain views.
You can’t take the horses home with you, of course, but you can take some of that vibe home with a stop at Open Range, a home boutique with everything from mountain lodge accessories to Westernthemed yard art, like the sleek, rusted metal horses that gallop across the sidewalk in front of the store.
DETAILS » Black Butte Stables offers trail rides ($20-$225) and overnight backcountry adventures; blackbuttestables.com. Open Range is open daily at 230 W. Cascade Ave., Sisters; www.openrangeco.com. The Sisters Rodeo is June 8-10, www.sistersrodeo.com.
Every town in this part of Oregon boasts at least one brewery and Sisters is no exception. You’ll find Three Creeks Brewing — and its Hoodoo Voodoo IPA and Knotty Blonde — tucked next to the FivePine Lodge on your way into town. Sample half a dozen beers with a six-shooter sampler ($10) or go boozeless with a rosy marionberry lemonade. Hungry? The brewpub offers pizzas, sandwiches and six burgers, including an Outlaw Barbecue Burger ($13) topped with Tillamook pepper jack cheese, Hoodoo Voodoo IPA barbecue sauce and, of course, bacon.
That adorable red barn on the other side of the parking lot is the Sisters Movie House, a four-screen, first-run movie theater that delivers burgers and beer to your seat.
DETAILS » Open daily at 721 Desperado Court; www.threecreeksbrewing.com. Find the movie listings for Sisters Movie House, 720 Desperado Court, at www.sistersmoviehouse.com.