State chapter
Wild places in Oregon
Oregon has 22 plates in this atlas, on hills, canyon, desert, alpine, forest, coast, and volcanic ground.
FrontispieceCrater Lake, Oregon
- Plates
- 22
- Terrains
- Hills, Canyon, Desert, Alpine, Forest, Coast, Volcanic
Oregon
The plates
Plate XIIICrater Lake
volcanicCascade Range, Oregon
A mountain that became a bowl of impossible blue.
42.9° N · 122.1° WOpen plate →
Plate XIVPainted Hills
desertJohn Day Fossil Beds, Oregon
A hillside painted by climates that no longer exist.
44.7° N · 120.3° WOpen plate →
Plate LXIXSmith Rock
volcanicCrooked River, near Terrebonne, Oregon
A red wall the river decided to keep circling.
44.4° N · 121.1° WOpen plate →
Plate XCThree Sisters
volcanicWillamette & Deschutes National Forests, Oregon
Three volcanoes standing like siblings over a fir sea.
44.1° N · 121.8° WOpen plate →
Plate CXXXHells Canyon
canyonSnake River, Idaho–Oregon line, Idaho / Oregon
A canyon deeper than the famous one, and quieter.
45.4° N · 116.7° WOpen plate →
Plate CXXXIKiger Gorge
alpineSteens Mountain, Oregon
A gorge a glacier carved into a desert mountain.
42.7° N · 118.6° WOpen plate →
Plate CXXXIILeslie Gulch
volcanicOwyhee Canyonlands, Oregon
A gulch that grew a skyline.
43.3° N · 117.3° WOpen plate →
Plate CXLIIAlvord Desert
deserteast of Steens Mountain, Oregon
A white floor under Oregon’s secret escarpment.
42.5° N · 118.5° WOpen plate →
Plate CXLIIIWallowa Mountains
alpineEagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa County, Oregon
A granite range the Cascades do not own.
45.3° N · 117.2° WOpen plate →
Plate CXLIVColumbia Gorge
canyonColumbia River, Multnomah Falls to Rowena, Oregon / Washington
The river that opened the mountains to the sea.
45.6° N · 122.1° WOpen plate →
Plate CCXCVIINewberry
volcanicNewberry National Volcanic Monument, Oregon
Two lakes in a caldera most people drive past.
43.7° N · 121.2° WOpen plate →
Plate CCXCVIIIMount Thielsen
volcanicMount Thielsen Wilderness, Umpqua NF, Oregon
A stone needle the lake still looks at.
43.2° N · 122.1° WOpen plate →
Plate CCXCIXBroken Top
volcanicThree Sisters Wilderness, Deschutes NF, Oregon
A broken summit the wilderness still keeps.
44.1° N · 121.7° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCMount McLoughlin
volcanicSky Lakes Wilderness, Fremont-Winema NF, Oregon
The quiet cone between Shasta and Crater Lake.
42.4° N · 122.3° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCIDiamond Peak
volcanicDiamond Peak Wilderness, Willamette & Deschutes NF, Oregon
A white roof the fir sea still hides.
43.5° N · 122.1° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCVIISamuel H. Boardman
coastSamuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor, Oregon
Sea arches in a green Oregon cove.
42.2° N · 124.4° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCXVIICape Perpetua
coastCape Perpetua Scenic Area, Siuslaw NF, Oregon
Fir headlands running south into a white sea.
44.3° N · 124.1° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCXXIProxy Falls
forestThree Sisters Wilderness, Willamette NF, Oregon
White threads on a green lava wall.
44.2° N · 121.9° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCXXIISilver Falls
forestSilver Falls State Park, near Silverton, Oregon
A long white drop into a fir canyon.
44.9° N · 122.7° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCXXIVEcola
coastEcola State Park, Tillamook Head, Oregon
Spruce headlands and a black rock in a gray sea.
45.9° N · 124.0° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCLXWaldo Lake
alpineWillamette National Forest, Lane County, Oregon
A clear Cascade lake the highways miss.
43.7° N · 122.0° WOpen plate →
Plate CCCLXIAbert Rim
hillsLake County, Highway 395, Oregon
The long rim over a bitter Great Basin lake.
42.6° N · 120.2° WOpen plate →