Pilot Butte State Scenic Viewpoint is an ancient volcanic cinder cone rising 500 feet above Bend in Deschutes County, central Oregon, USA, located just off U.S. Highway 20 east of downtown.
Koberg Beach State Recreation Site is a small riverside day-use park in Hood River County, Oregon, USA, located three miles east of Hood River along Interstate 84 westbound near milepost 65.6, offering easy beach access to the Columbia River.
Tillamook, a coastal city of about 5,300 in Tillamook County on Oregon's northern coast along the Kilchis River near Tillamook Bay, traces its roots to Captain Robert Gray's 1788 anchorage—the first recorded European landing on the Oregon coast—named for the Tillamook Native Americans, a Salish-speaking people whose population dwindled from epidemics and relocations by the 1850s.
Enchanted Forest, a family-built theme park near Turner off Interstate 5 south of Salem, Oregon, opened on August 8, 1971, after Roger Tofte spent seven years hand-sculpting storybook scenes like Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, and Snow White's cottage using cement, rebar, and plaster on 20 wooded acres purchased for $4,000, drawing 75 visitors its first day and 1,000 the next Sunday at $1 adult admission.
Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site is Oregon's oldest water-powered grain mill, located near Shedd in Linn County along the Calapooia River, chronicling over 160 years of rural history from its 1858 construction through flour milling, feed production, and hydroelectric power until 2004.
Sitka Sedge State Natural Area is a 357-acre coastal preserve in Tillamook County, Oregon, USA, north of Pacific City at the southern end of Sand Lake Estuary, encompassing tidal marshes, mudflats, dunes, forested wetlands, and oceanfront.
Washington Park, one of Portland's oldest public spaces spanning 410 acres in the West Hills two miles southwest of downtown, originated in 1871 when the city bought 40 acres from Amos King for $32,624 despite its brushy, timbered state roamed by cougars, evolving under park keeper Charles Myers into formal gardens by 1900 with John Olmsted's 1903 advice restoring native shrubs amid monuments like the Lewis and Clark column dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt.
Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon's largest state campground spanning 4,300 acres at the mouth of the Columbia River near Warrenton northwest of Astoria, preserves a historic military installation built in 1863-1865 as an earthen fort to defend against British and Confederate threats during the Civil War, named for Union General Isaac I. Stevens and active through World War II until deactivation in 1947.
Bend, Oregon's sixth-largest city with around 100,000 residents in Deschutes County, sits at the base of the Cascade Mountains where the Deschutes River makes a sharp bend, originally called Farewell Bend by pioneers fording it en route west, with Native tribes like the Wana Łama, Wasq’u, and Northern Paiute hunting and fishing there for millennia before 19th-century treaties relocated them to the Warm Springs Reservation.
The Oregon Coast Aquarium, located in Newport, Oregon along Yaquina Bay near the Pacific Ocean, opened in 1992 as a leading marine science and education center featuring over 15,000 animals across 300 species native to the Oregon Coast.
Arizona Beach State Recreation Site is a 68-acre day-use park in Curry County on Oregon's southern coast, USA, about 13 miles south of Port Orford along U.S. Highway 101, featuring a sheltered two-thirds-mile sandy beach flanked by rocky headlands that block winds for unusually warm conditions.
Beachside State Recreation Site is a compact 29-acre coastal campground in Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, located 3 miles south of Waldport and 5 miles north of Yachats along U.S. Highway 101 on the expansive Wakonda Beach.
Yachats Ocean Road State Natural Site is a small coastal preserve in southern Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, within the town of Yachats along U.S. Highway 101 near the Yachats River mouth.
Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Oregon's tallest at 93 feet on a basalt headland three miles north of Newport in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Coquille Myrtle Grove State Natural Site is a serene 7-acre day-use state park in Coos County, southwestern Oregon, USA, along Oregon Route 542 between Myrtle Point and Powers near the South Fork Coquille River.
Bob Straub State Park is a 484-acre coastal park on the Nestucca Spit in Pacific City, Tillamook County, Oregon, USA, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and Nestucca River estuary to the east, named for former Governor Robert W. Straub who championed its preservation from highway development.
Beverly Beach State Park is a 356-acre coastal park nestled in a forest between Cape Foulweather and Yaquina Head in Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, featuring one of the state's largest creekside campgrounds along Spencer Creek with direct access to miles of sandy ocean beach stretching toward Otter Rock.
Red Bridge State Wayside is a small, forested park along the Grande Ronde River in Union County, Oregon, near La Grande off Highway 244, offering primitive camping, picnicking, and riverside access amid ponderosa pines and cottonwoods.
