• Crater Lake National Park
  Located at Crater Lake, Oregon, the lake was formed after the collapse of an ancient volcano, posthumously named Mount Mazama. This volcano violently erupted approximately 7700 years ago. That eruption was 42 times as powerful as the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The basin or caldera was formed after the top 5000 feet of the volcano collapsed. Subsequent lava flows sealed the bottom, allowing the caldera to fill with approximately 4.6 trillion gallons of water from rainfall and snow melt, to create the seventh deepest lake in the world at 1,932 feet.
  
  
• Fort Clatsop National Memorial
  Located in Astoria, Oregon, this site celebrates the 1805-06 winter encampment of the 33-member Lewis and Clark Expedition. A 1955 community-built replica of the explorers' 50'x50' Fort Clatsop is the focus of this 125-acre park. The fort, historic canoe landing, and spring are nestled in the coastal forests and wetlands of the Coast Range as it merges with the Columbia River Estuary.
  
  
• John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
  Within the heavily eroded volcanic deposits of the scenic John Day River basin is a well-preserved fossil record of plants and animals. This remarkably complete record, spanning more than 40 of the 65 million years of the Cenozoic Era (the "Age of Mammals and Flowering Plants") is world-renown. Authorized October 26, 1974, and established in 1975, this 14,000 acre park is divided into three widely separated units; the Sheep Rock Unit, Painted Hills Unit, and Clarno Unit. Located in Oregon.
  
  
• Oregon Caves National Monument
  Oregon Caves National Monument is small in size, 480 acres, but rich in diversity. Above ground, the monument encompasses a remnant old-growth coniferous forest. It harbors a fantastic array of plants, and a Douglas-fir tree with the widest known girth in Oregon. Three hiking trails access this forest. Below ground is an active marble cave created by natural forces over hundreds of thousands of years in one of the world's most diverse geologic realms. Located on Highway 46, 20 miles east of Cave Junction, Oregon.
  
  
• Oregon State Parks
  Orego visiting guide to parks and making reservations, riding ATVs, and information on the departmental administration.
  
  
• Rogue River National Forest
  The Rogue River National Forest encompasses roughly 630,000 acres of Southern Oregon's most beautiful territory. Straddling the Siskiyou and Cascade mountain ranges, the forest provides visitors and local residents with an array of natural resources and recreation opportunities.
  
  
• Winema National Forest
  The 1.1 million acre Winema National Forest lies on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range in South Central Oregon, an area noted for its year-round sunshine. The Forest borders Crater Lake National Park near the crest of the Cascades and stretches eastward into the Klamath River Basin.
  
  

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