The road shows you things. You just have to drive it.
Real drives, real places, real stories from the forests and highways of the Pacific Northwest.
Honest storytelling from the ground level
No hype. No sponsored scripts. Just a truck, a camera, and places worth documenting.
Red Truck Adventures covers the Pacific Northwest with a focus on local history, scenic drives, gear that actually works, and communities worth knowing. Based in the Lower Columbia region.
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Latest Adventures
Recent drives and discoveries from around the Lower Columbia region and beyond.
Stella Backroads Loop: Coal Creek to Stella on the Lower Columbia
Back roads from Coal Creek to Stella: logging history, a pioneer cemetery, salmon creeks, and a 1907 blacksmith shop on the Columbia.
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Longview to Astoria on an Overcast Day
Sixty miles down the Washington side of the Columbia to the coast, filmed on a gray June morning.
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Portland to Ridgefield for In-N-Out
Fifteen miles up I-5 from Portland to the Ridgefield In-N-Out. Not a scenic drive. Still worth filming.
Watch & Read →Stella Backroads Loop: Coal Creek to Stella on the Lower Columbia
Back roads from Coal Creek to Stella: logging history, a pioneer cemetery, salmon creeks, and a 1907 blacksmith shop on the Columbia.
Full Trip →PNW Stories
Local history, environmental notes, and context behind the places we drive through.
Welcome Home: Chinook Salmon Return to Mount St. Helens for the First Time Since 1980
Forty-six years after the eruption, Chinook salmon are back in the creeks below Mount St. Helens, carried there by hand.
The Planned City: A Short History of Longview, WA
Longview is one of the few American cities that was fully planned before anyone put up a building. That explains most of what you notice driving through it.
Five Scenic Drives in the Lower Columbia Region
Five drives within two hours of Longview. No permits, no high clearance, no planning required.