The 40-mile Rogue River Trail offers lodge-to-lodge hiking, which means you need little more in your pack than the essentials. The lodges here are comfortably rustic, serve home-style food in copious portions, and run $150–200 for a double room. They are also comfortably spaced, so extended hiking is seldom a necessity.
Before you go, check with the Gold Beach Ranger Station on trail conditions and specific directions to the trailhead. Pick up the western end of the trail 35 miles east of Gold Beach [1], about 0.5 miles from Foster Bar, a popular boat landing. Park there and walk east and north on the paved road until you see signs on the left marking the Rogue River Trail.
Go in spring before the hot weather and enjoy yellow Siskiyou irises and fragrant wild azaleas. The trail ends at Graves Creek, 27 miles northwest of Grants Pass [2]. Be careful of rattlesnakes on the trail.
Links:
[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/oregon/south-coast/gold-beach
[2] http://www.moon.com/destinations/oregon/southern-oregon/grants-pass