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A place just south of Bend where the smell of pine trees swarms your nose as soon as you open your car door. Where everyone waves and says hello as you ride by one another on bikes. The peaceful serenity of a walk by the Deschutes river on a summer night. A winter day full of sledding down bike trails covered in snow. A place where everyone can take a break from reality for awhile. Sunriver, Oregon is a peaceful place to get back to nature. Where log cabins stay warm in the winter from toasty fireplaces. Sunriver is a place where my family spends quality time together in my grandparents’ cabin, beating each other in board games, sitting close together on the couch drinking our morning coffee, taking our dogs for long walks, going on bike rides to the Sunriver store to buy more milk, and spending the day at SHARC, the local water park. Sunriver is located in Deschutes County, about 56 miles south of Bend. Families of any size can find just the right place to rent, whether a cabin, hou