Clay Myers State Natural Area at Whalen Island is a pristine 908-acre coastal preserve in Tillamook County, Oregon, USA, near Pacific City between Cape Kiwanda and Cape Lookout, encompassing the marshy, nearly-island-like Whalen Island surrounded by the Sand Lake Estuary.
Stoller Family Estate, located on a 400-acre property in Oregon's Dundee Hills, began as a family farm purchased in 1943 for raising turkeys before Bill Stoller transformed it in 1993 into the state's largest contiguous vineyard, with over 225 acres planted mainly in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Wahkeena Falls, a 242-foot tiered horsetail waterfall named after a Yakama word meaning most beautiful, cascades down mossy basalt cliffs in the Columbia River Gorge near Corbett, Oregon, about 13 miles east of Troutdale along the Historic Columbia River Highway.
Golden State Heritage Site is a preserved 19th-century ghost town in Josephine County, southern Oregon, USA, managed by Oregon State Parks as the state's only former mining community under their care, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2002.
Battle Mountain Forest State Scenic Corridor is a protected scenic park in Umatilla County, Oregon, USA, located along U.S. Highway 395 about nine miles north of Ukiah.
Willamette Stone State Heritage Site is a small historic park in Portland's West Hills, Oregon, USA, marking the initial point of the Willamette Meridian and Baseline established in 1851 by Surveyor General John B. Preston.
Shepperd's Dell State Natural Area is a picturesque 519-acre canyon park in Multnomah County, Oregon, USA, located along the Historic Columbia River Highway just east of Bridal Veil Falls, about 13 miles east of Troutdale near I-84 Exit 28.
The Oregon Vortex, a longstanding roadside attraction in Gold Hill, Oregon, along Sardine Creek, opened to the public in 1930 as the earliest documented gravity hill or mystery spot in the U.S., featuring optical illusions where balls roll uphill, people appear to shrink or grow depending on position, brooms balance on bristles, and plumb lines defy straightness inside a tilted 1904 assay office shack from the Old Grey Eagle Mining Company that slid off its foundation.
The Willamette Valley in northwestern Oregon stretches 150 miles between the Cascade Range to the east and Oregon Coast Range to the west, forming a broad alluvial lowland carved by the 187-mile Willamette River that flows northward to join the Columbia River near Portland, with its fertile soils derived from massive Ice Age floods from glacial Lake Missoula that deposited up to a half-mile of volcanic and glacial silt across the basin up to 13,000 years ago.
Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park, commonly called Honeyman State Park, is a vast coastal retreat in Lane County, Oregon, USA, located three miles south of Florence along Highway 101 within the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.
Portland Saturday Market, the nation's largest continuously operating outdoor arts and crafts market since 1974, unfolds every Saturday and Sunday from March through Christmas Eve in Portland's historic Old Town/Chinatown along Tom McCall Waterfront Park under the Burnside Bridge and adjacent Ankeny Plaza, drawing about one million visitors yearly with over 250 booths of handmade goods sold directly by Pacific Northwest artisans.
Portland Art Museum, the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest founded in 1892 by the Portland Art Association with a $10,000 gift from Henry Corbett for plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures, grew from library displays to its landmark Pietro Belluschi-designed building at Southwest Park Avenue and Jefferson Street opened in 1932 amid the Depression.
OC&E Woods Line State Trail is Oregon's longest linear state park at 109 miles, running through Klamath and Lake counties from Klamath Falls east to Bly and north to Sycan Marsh along the abandoned railbeds of the Oregon, California & Eastern Railroad and Weyerhaeuser Woods Line.
Erratic Rock State Natural Site is a tiny 4.4-acre day-use park in Yamhill County, Oregon, USA, perched atop a foothill of the Northern Oregon Coast Range between Sheridan and McMinnville off Oregon Route 18.
Memaloose State Park is a 441-acre campground oasis at the eastern end of Oregon's Columbia River Gorge in Wasco County, USA, located 11 miles west of The Dalles along Interstate 84 (westbound access via Exit 69, eastbound via Exit 76).
The Pearl District, Portland's vibrant mixed-use neighborhood north of downtown bounded by West Burnside Street, the Willamette River, Northwest 13th Avenue, and Interstate 405, transformed from a derelict 19th-century warehouse and rail hub—once the Northwest Industrial Triangle handling freight for ports and railroads—into an artistic haven in the late 1970s when creators like Tad Savinar and Gus Van Sant occupied lofts amid abandoned buildings.
Valley of the Rogue State Park is a 277-acre green oasis in southern Oregon's Rogue Valley, near Gold Hill between Grants Pass and Medford, stretching along three miles of the scenic Rogue River right off Interstate 5.
Yachats State Recreation Area is a compact day-use park right in the heart of Yachats, Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, along U.S. Highway 101 at the mouth of the Yachats River where it meets the Pacific Ocean.
