Sheridan State Scenic Corridor is an 11-acre old-growth forest park in Hood River County, Oregon, USA, located west of Cascade Locks at Interstate 84 milepost 42.5, surrounded by the highway and Mount Hood National Forest.
The World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, is a nonprofit educational institution housed in a striking 20,000-square-foot wooden building that has been a local landmark since 1971.
South Beach State Park is a 498-acre coastal park in Newport, Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, located next to the Yaquina Bay Bridge and just south of the South Jetty, offering miles of broad sandy beach, paved trails like the Jetty Trail for walking, biking, and jogging, and easy access to the ocean for surfing, fishing, crabbing, clamming, and beachcombing.
Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort in Oregon is a premier ski destination located about 22 miles west of Bend, on the northern side of the stratovolcano Mount Bachelor.
Tseriadun State Recreation Site, also known as Agate Beach, is a day-use beach access park in Port Orford, northern Curry County, Oregon, USA, offering a mile-long stretch of pebbled sand and gravel shoreline north of Port Orford Heads between Garrison Lake and the Pacific Ocean.
The Astoria Column in Oregon is a 125-foot tall tower built in 1926 atop Coxcomb Hill near the mouth of the Columbia River, created to celebrate the region’s history and the early pioneers who shaped the Pacific Northwest.
Cottonwood Canyon State Park is Oregon's second-largest state park at over 8,000 acres, located along 16 miles of the free-flowing John Day River in north-central Oregon near Wasco, featuring steep canyon walls rising 1,250 feet, sagebrush grasslands, basalt cliffs, and adjacent 10,000 acres of BLM land for a vast near-wilderness experience.
Fall Creek State Recreation Area encompasses six parks around Fall Creek Reservoir in Lane County, Oregon, USA, near Lowell, offering a mix of day-use sites and primitive camping amid the Willamette National Forest.
Prineville Reservoir State Park is a popular high-desert recreation area in Crook County, central Oregon, USA, about 14 miles southeast of Prineville on the 3,000-acre Prineville Reservoir formed by the Crooked River and Bowman Dam.
Willamette Mission State Park is a 1,300-acre riverside park in Marion County, Oregon, USA, located 8 miles north of Salem near Keizer and the Wheatland Ferry on the east bank of the Willamette River, easily reached from I-5 Exit 263.
Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site, a National Historic Landmark in John Day, Oregon, preserves a modest 1865 wooden building—originally a trading post and stage stop along the Dalles-Canyon City wagon road—that became the lifelong home and business of Chinese immigrants Ing Doc Hay and Lung On starting in 1887 or 1888, serving as a general store, herbal apothecary, post office, library, temple, social hub, and dormitory for the local Chinese community amid gold rush mining and anti-Chinese discrimination.
Elijah Bristow State Park is an 847-acre day-use park in Lane County near Eugene, Oregon, USA, along the Middle Fork Willamette River, accessible via Highway 58 southeast of the city.
Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area is a historic mining park in Sumpter, Baker County, Oregon, USA, centered on a massive gold dredge built in 1935 that operated nearly nonstop until 1954, extracting over $4 million in gold from Powder River sediments using 72 one-ton buckets on a floating hull amid the Elkhorn Mountains.
Sunset Beach State Recreation Site is a 120-acre day-use state park in Clatsop County, Oregon, USA, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and located southwest of Astoria along the Pacific Ocean on the Clatsop Plains.
Ukiah-Dale Forest State Scenic Corridor is a scenic state park in Umatilla County, eastern Oregon, USA, stretching along U.S. Highway 395 between Ukiah and Dale beside the North Fork John Day River and Camas Creek.
Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon, is a unique 615-acre drive-through animal park that opened in 1972 with the vision of founder Frank Hart to help save rare and endangered species.
Pittock Mansion, a 46-room French Renaissance chateau of Tenino sandstone built between 1911 and 1914 atop Portland's West Hills on 46 acres offering panoramic city and Cascade views, served as the dream home for newspaper magnate Henry Pittock—publisher of The Oregonian since 1860—and his wife Georgiana, who championed women's suffrage and the Rose Festival, though both passed shortly after moving in.
Succor Creek State Natural Area lies in a remote, rocky canyon in Malheur County, Oregon, about 15 miles south of Nyssa via a rough dirt road off Oregon Route 201, celebrated for its dramatic volcanic cliffs, lush creek-side greenery amid high desert, and 15-million-year-old rock formations prized by rockhounds seeking thundereggs—Oregon's state rock—with limited collecting allowed.
