Ona Beach is a scenic section of Brian Booth State Park in Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, about 9 miles south of Newport along Highway 101, featuring a long sandy shoreline where Beaver Creek meets the Pacific Ocean, ideal for hiking, beachcombing, rockhounding for unique blue Newport agates, and exploring tide pools with sea anemones, starfish, and crabs at low tide.
North Santiam State Recreation Area is a peaceful 28-acre primitive campground and day-use park straddling Marion and Linn counties in western Oregon, USA, along the North Santiam River about 25 miles east of Salem near Mehama.
L.L. Stub Stewart Memorial State Park is a 1,800-acre forested park in Washington County, Oregon, USA, located off Oregon Route 47 near Buxton in the Northern Coast Range foothills, about 30 miles west of Portland.
Oregon Historical Society, founded in 1898 in Portland as a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting Oregon's history within U.S. context, began with meetings at the Portland Library and quickly amassed artifacts, photos, and documents now totaling over 85,000 items including the famous 1835 Portland Penny flipped to name the city, Captain Robert Gray's chest, and a 9,000-year-old sandal.
Dexter State Recreation Site is a day-use park on the western shore of Dexter Reservoir in Lane County, Oregon, USA, about 25 miles southeast of Eugene, offering easy access to the lake via a two-lane boat ramp, docks, and hand-launch for small craft.
Lowell State Recreation Site is a day-use state park on the north shore of Dexter Lake next to Lowell in Lane County, Oregon, USA, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
Pioneer Courthouse Square, affectionately called Portland's Living Room, occupies a full city block in downtown Portland, Oregon, bounded by Southwest Morrison, Yamhill, 6th Avenue, and Broadway, and opened on April 6, 1984, after a national design competition won by architect Will Martin, transforming a former parking lot—once site of the 1856 Central School and grand 1890 Portland Hotel—into a 40,000-square-foot public gathering space drawing over 10 million visitors yearly.
The Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, Oregon, serves as a five-acre living history museum that preserves and shares the Mid-Willamette Valley's past through fourteen historic structures, including the oldest wooden frame houses in the Pacific Northwest like the 1841 Jason Lee House and Methodist Parsonage, plus the 1847 John D. Boon House and 1858 Pleasant Grove Church relocated from pioneer sites.
Ellmaker State Wayside is an 80-acre day-use state park in Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, located on U.S. Route 20 about one mile north of Burnt Woods between Corvallis and Newport.
Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area is a striking sandstone headland in Pacific City, Tillamook County, Oregon, USA, part of the Three Capes Scenic Route alongside Cape Meares and Cape Lookout, renowned for its dramatic ocean views, towering dunes, and powerful wave action against eroding cliffs.
Jasper Point is a quieter secondary campground within Prineville Reservoir State Park in Crook County, central Oregon, USA, offering 27 first-come, first-served sites with electricity and water hookups, some with waterfront views of the 3,000-acre high-desert reservoir.
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, spanning 652,488 acres along the Oregon-Idaho border in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, encompasses North America's deepest river gorge at over 7,900 feet carved by the Snake River, with dramatic 10-mile-wide expanses, towering peaks like He Devil rising 9,000 feet, and nearly 900 miles of trails for hiking, horseback riding, and wilderness exploration.
Governor Patterson Memorial State Recreation Site is a small beach access park in Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, just south of Waldport along U.S. Highway 101 near milepost 157, commemorating Governor Isaac L. Patterson, who championed Oregon's early park system.
Jasper State Recreation Site is a scenic riverside park administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department along the Middle Fork Willamette River near Pleasant Hill in Lane County, Oregon, USA.
The Flavel House Museum in Astoria, Oregon, stands as a stunning Queen Anne-style Victorian mansion built between 1884 and 1886 for Captain George Flavel, a pioneering Columbia River bar pilot and Astoria's first millionaire who amassed wealth guiding ships through the treacherous Graveyard of the Pacific and savvy real estate deals.
Alderwood State Wayside is a serene 76-acre day-use state park in Lane County, western Oregon, USA, along Oregon Route 36 between Junction City and Triangle Lake near the Long Tom River.
The High Desert Museum near Bend, Oregon, opened in 1982 and was founded by Donald M. Kerr, who envisioned a place to bring the natural and cultural history of the High Desert region to life for all ages.
Cape Blanco State Park is Oregon's westernmost point in Curry County, southern Oregon, USA, perched on a dramatic headland 245 feet above the Pacific Ocean about 4 miles north of Port Orford.
