Detroit is a small resort community in a beautiful mountain setting (on Highway 22, east of Salem). Nearby, you'll find fishing and boating at Detroit Lake State Park, rivers for fishing and white-water rafting, and wilderness trails for hiking.
Year-round, a number of hot springs draw visitors interested in physical and spiritual renewal. Breitenbush Hot Springs, about 10 mi/16 km from Detroit, is a holistic, healing-arts retreat and conference center built around natural hot springs. A river runs past the resort, and an ancient fir and cedar forest surrounds it. The food is vegetarian, the electricity comes entirely from the river and the atmosphere is quite removed from the modern world. Detroit is 70 mi/115 km south of Portland.
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