Joe's Oregon Parks (Oregon State Parks, Federal Parks in Oregon, Monuments, Wilderness Areas, Etc.)

Joe's Oregon Sights to See

  • Cape Blanco State Park (southernmost Oregon lighthouse, westernmost point in Oregon, and the only lighthouse in Oregon with an operational Fresnel lens that allows visitors into the lens room)

  • Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

  • Crater Lake (deepest lake in the United States; fifth oldest national park)

  • Crooked River National Grasslands

  • "D" River Wayside, Lincoln City, The shortest river in the world

  • Forest Park, Portland, the nation's largest park within a city (over 4700 acres)

  • Fort Rock

  • Fremont-Winema National Forest (including the Gearhart Mountain Wilderness)

  • Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint (the strongest light on the Oregon Coast)

  • Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (America's deepest river gorge)

  • Jack Creek

  • John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (and the Painted Hills)

  • Metolius River

  • Mount Hood National Forest (Mt. Hood is Oregon's tallest mountain)

  • Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument (Washington State, but only an hour and a half or so from Portland)

  • Multnomah Falls National Scenic Area (the second highest year-round waterfall in the United States)

  • Newberry National Volcanic Monument (Country's largest obsidian flow)

  • OC&E Woods Line State Trail, Oregon's longest linear park (100 miles)

  • Oregon Fossil Cache Yields a Bounty of Ancient Riches

  • Oregon Caves National Monument (3.5 miles of marble caverns)

  • Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (on the Oregon coast in the Siuslaw National Forest)

  • The Pacific Crest Trail in Oregon

  • Ridgeline Park, Eugene

  • Salt Creek Fals Observation Site (2nd highest falls in Oregon, and the most powerful waterfall in Southern Oregon)

  • Silver Falls State Park (the largest park in the Oregon State Park System at 8700 acres)

  • Siskiyou National Forest (including the Wild and Scenic Illinois River, with 150 rapids, including 11 Class IV and one Class V)

  • Smith Rock State Park

  • Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area (including the Steens Mountain Wilderness Area)

  • Waldo Lake (Waldo Lake is the second largest lake in Oregon, nearly ten square miles in size, and one of the purest in the world)

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