The 85-room/suite Allison Inn, less than an hour drive from Portland, celebrates the area’s topography, textures, wine terroir, history and art on 35 beautifully landscaped acres in the famed Willamette Valley. Today, where the four-level inn serves as a gateway to Oregon’s famed wine country, ice-age Missoula Floods once laid down rich volcanic topsoil from what is now Montana and Washington, forming ancient Lake Allison to depths reaching 400 feet. Nurtured over millennia, this fertile lake bed has produced one of the world’s premier vinicultural areas, renowned, in particular, for earthy, deeply textured Pinot Noirs, available at many of its 200-plus vineyards. The inn is also a gallery: Inside and out of the Allison, 500 pieces of original artwork showcase the work of 100 Oregonian artists.
