Segway, E-Bike, Heli Tours, Art Safari, Beer Tap Tours

Entertaining Tours In & Around Bend

The Bend Tour Company offers Segway Tours, E-Cruiser Tours, E-Bike Tours, Heli-Tours, Ale Trail & Beer Taps Tours, Art Safari and Sunset Spectacular Tours. The Bend Tour Company offers informative and entertaining explorations of Bend’s past and present. The tours highlight Bend’s great history, and its wonderful sights and attractions, exceptional restaurants and unique shopping opportunities.

Guided tours take guests past the many historic homes and buildings throughout Bend’s Old Mill Quarter, Downtown and West Side neighborhoods. Guests glide along the magnificent Deschutes River and through the beauty of Farewell Bend, McKay and Drake Parks and around and over exquisite Mirror Pond. Did we mention you get to ride a SEGWAY?

Our Sunset Spectacular Tours are just that… SPECTACULAR! The tours include all of the great history, sights, shops, restaurants, breweries and attractions included in many of our other tours, plus stunning views of our incredible summer sunsets over Oregon’s magnificent Cascades mountain range! Choose to experience the Summer Spectacular Tours on our SEGWAYs, Cycle ‘Rounds, E-Cruisers, or Electric Bikes. You simply can’t go wrong with these tours!

Electric Bike Tours:  Our partners Bend Electric Bikes and Let It Ride Pedego Bikes  – Mount our Electric Bikes and experience the heart of Bend as you travel through the parks and along the river from the saddle of one of our super comfortable Pedego electric bikes and Bend Electric Bikes. Your tour guide will take you places that most don’t see as you enjoy the ride on your electric cruiser style bikes learning where to shop, dine and play in sunny Central Oregon. You’ll enjoy the sights of Downtown Bend, the Old Mill District, beautiful nature trails along the river, historic Drake Park and all of the award winning breweries along Bends famous Ale Trail.

Big Mountain Heli Tours: Known as the “outdoor playground of the West,” our town is world famous for both its outdoor pursuits and its pristine beauty – but that’s just half of the story. Bend has a second, unlimited, playground that starts at 10,000 feet. It’s a place of unparalleled vistas that stretch for miles, sunsets that take your breath away, millions of years of volcanic history, and unfettered access to remote and unusual locations in the Central Oregon high desert. Big Mountain Heli Tours, in partnership with Bend’s premier flight school, Leading Edge Aviation, is staffed by highly experienced commercial pilots and mechanics who have a passion for flying helicopters in and around Bend’s big blue mountain playground. Big Mountain Heli Tours was created to showcase the very best of Bend and Central Oregon to the estimated 3 million guests who visit us each year.

The unparalleled mobility of the Eco-friendly tours from Bend Tour Company offers groups to glide safely along the pathways of Bend, providing a truly entertaining and unique sightseeing experience with extraordinary access to everything that Bend has to offer!

Scenic Tours - An Experience Like No Other

Big Mountain Heli Tours is Bend, Oregon’s premier helicopter tour company. Join us for incredible scenic flights to local mountains, vineyard tours and explorations, weddings, events and unique flight adventures throughout Central Oregon and beyond!

Big Mountain Heli Tours, offers a variety of tours such as the Bend Winter Wonderland Tour, Bend City & Lava Lands Tour, and the Helicopter Wine Tasting Tour.

It’s ski season here in Bend and our backcountry is covered in deep, beautiful snowpack. Our Winter Wonderland Helicopter Tour is perfect for Bend visitors and locals who want to experience and explore as much of our magnificent snowcapped Cascade range as possible.  Looking for that special place?  Big Mountain Heli Tours can take you to new heights to see pristine mountain peaks, blue crystal lakes and rivers not to mention the natural beauty of the high desert.

Bend City  & Lava Lands Heli Tour:  With stunning Cascade Mountain views to our left and right our helicopter pilots will take you and your friends on a scenic  tour of Bend, Oregon “Beertown USA” and on to our local lava flow at Lava Lands State Park a National Volcanic Monument. Over the past 300,000 years massive volcanic eruptions have left volcanic scars outside of Bend. You may have visited Lava Lands and walked through the ancient flows but seeing their sheer size from the air is a unique look into the awesome power of Mother Nature, frozen for all time just as they happened, and devoid of life for thousands of years.

Tours range from half-hour to hour flights and Big Mountain Heli Tours  can customize a trip for you.   Book your Tour Today 

Something beyond the ordinary

Hot Air Balloon Flights

Experience “The Art of Flight” with Big Sky Balloon Company. Hour long scenic hot air balloon flights provide a one of a kind experience in Central Oregon.
Join us for an unforgettable experience! Big Sky Balloon Company. is the premier hot air balloon ride operator in Central Oregon. We offer scenic hot air balloon flights in this remarkable part of the Pacific Northwest. Our unique, custom hand painted balloon reflects the landscape around us as we float over some of the most dramatic land features the area has to offer.

For early morning flights be sure to dress in layers as it can be cool in the high dessert, but it warms up quickly and you’ll want to adjust accordingly. Temperatures in flight are actually much warmer than on the ground. Make sure your camera is fully charged so you don’t miss a thing.

Ballooning is a hands on experience and we welcome you to help with the inflation as well as the take down of the balloon if you like.

We conduct one flight a day early in the morning when wind conditions are calm and the air is stable. Flight times vary depending on the time of year, we typically like to be in the air within 1 hour of sunrise.

BE here. Be well.

Enjoy natural luxury in Oregon’s breathtaking high desert when you book your stay at Panacea at the Canyon, a 40-acre destination spa experience. From May through October we offer the discriminating vacationer one-of-a-kind lodging in custom-made safari tents paired with holistic treatments, organic goodness, activities and premier hospitality.   From tranquil vistas to attention to your every need, you’ll find it easy and delightful to relax and rejuvenate in a truly refined manner.

Panacea at the Canyon offers seven splendid nonsmoking Stargazer Luxury Tents with en-suite bathrooms for your comfort, indulgent spa services for the ultimate experience in relaxation and personal well being.  Heal your body from the inside in enjoying fresh and delicious Farm-to-Table dining options.

In addition, we offer a diverse array of workshops and activities to choose from such as hot air ballooning, rock climbing, archery, horseshoes, slacklining, yoga and meditation, nature trails, birding, live music and lawn games, stargazing, fireside stories and outdoor movies on the weekends.

Allow us to be your luxury base camp for adventure as you explore nearby Smith Rock State Park or ride the scenic bikeways or horseback trails in Central Oregon.  Try your hand at fly-fishing or ride the rapids in whitewater rafting.   Enjoy jet ski and pontoon boating at nearby Lake Billy Chinook.

Panacea at the Canyon is a Signal-free Sanctuary.  Relinquish all cell phones and computers at check-in.  Get ready to disconnect.

Call today to reserve and begin your luxury one-of-a-kind vacation!

If you're going to skydive, Skydive Awesome!

Skydive Awesome! is an adventure skydiving school who provides the thrill of jumping out of perfectly good airplanes to jumpers of all experience levels. At Skydive Awesome! you can take your first leap into parachuting with a tandem skydive, where you are harnessed to an instructor who will guide you every step of the way. Once you’re completely addicted to the freedom of flying, you can learn to skydive on your own through our Advanced Skydiver Training program.

Already a licensed skydiver? Skydive Awesome! is stoked to provide a USPA drop zone in Central Oregon where you can advance your skills and fly with awesome friends! We are located on the Madras Municipal Airport in Madras, OR, located 45 miles north of Bend, OR. Call us to book your tandem skydive today!

Cross the dream of flight off your bucket list with a tandem skydive! At Skydive Awesome!, we feel your first skydive should be more than just a joy ride, and believe in a higher level of personalized service. You deserve to experience what it feels like to fly as a skydiver! From the moment you arrive until the time you leave we truly hope you depart feeling you’re part of our awesome skydiving family!

  Your first Tandem Skydive includes:

• Personalized instruction from one of our certified tandem instructors where you’ll learn the correct body position for aircraft exit and freefall.
• A scenic flight to altitude with a bird’s eye view of the Cascade Mountain peaks including the Three Sisters and Mt Hood.
• Approximately 45 seconds of freefall from 10,000 feet.
• A sensational 5-7 minute scenic parachute flight from 5,000 feet above Central Oregon.
• A first jump certificate.

Video and Pictures package information:

• Your video and pictures will include footage of you geared up, including loading the plane, your ride to altitude, aircraft exit, freefall, your parachute flight, ending with your awesome reaction once you’ve returned to Earth.
• Videos of your entire experience.
• Pictures and videos shared on Google Drive.

Your Tandem Level II skydive:

• Your instructor will provide you with an altimeter.
• You will be educated about freefall body position, altitude awareness, practice parachute deployment handle touches, and parachute deployment. You and your instructor will follow a specific freefall dive flow and perform those maneuvers in the sky.
• You will be educated about parachute piloting by practicing altitude awareness, parachute control check, heading control, and parachute landing. You and your instructor will follow a specific parachute dive flow and perform those maneuvers in the sky.