Go fishing & boating (boat rentals, boat ramp & marina nearby) on local lakes & down the South Santiam River. You can catch Kokanee, trout, salmon & steelhead & see many birds & wildlife. Up in the majestic, wooded mountains you go on guided hikes beneath huge, old growth trees to see lava flows, hot springs, crystal clear lakes & prehistoric caves with 8,000 year old etchings.
Sweet Home is a small historic logging & homestead community filled with Oregon’s unique heritage. In town & the surrounding countryside you can visit museums, see painted building murals, drive thru many covered bridges, walk in Brownsville where they shot a movie & touch petrified wood & holly blue agates.