Section 2 begins at Mt. Rainier National Park and runs south to the wind surfing country of the Columbia Gorge and Hood River, Oregon. From there it skirts the Three Sisters Mountains near Bend, Oregon and ends in Crater Lake National Park. This section intersects the Lewis & Clark Bicycle Trail in Hood River and the TransAmerica Trail in Sisters, Oregon. The McKenzie Pass Alternate has less traffic, more scenery, and allows cyclists to ride through lava fields at the top of the pass.