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The newspaper article credits Smith with "discovering" the rock. Another story claims the rock was named after a soldier named Smith who fell to his death from the rock in 1863 while his unit was camped nearby. [2] [3] The State of Oregon obtained the park property between 1960 and 1975 from the City of Redmond and Harry and Diane Kem. [4]
Central Oregon; around Deschutes ... Oregon and often used as a campground for people who are visiting Smith Rock State Park. [1] [2] History ... Hiking There is the ...
Gray Butte is a volcanic butte in the southeast corner of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. It is composed of welded tuff and is a part of the Crooked River caldera. [2] A recreation trail for hiking, horseback riding, and mountain biking leads up the side of the butte. [3] The butte is located near the popular tourist site of Smith Rock ...
Crooked River Gorge is a 500-foot-deep (150 m) gorge located around Warm Springs and Smith Rock State Park, Central Oregon, United States.The gorge is surrounded by 400-foot (120 m) cliffs filled with a variety of wildlife.
Smith Rock State Park, off U.S. Route 97 about 3 miles (5 km) east of Terrebonne, [21] has thousands of rock climbing routes as well as hiking and biking trails in a rugged canyon setting. [19] The ancestral Crooked River helped create the crags and pinnacles in this park by eroding the interior of a volcanic vent over millions of years. [21]
Elevations in Kalmiopsis Wilderness range from 500 to 5,098 feet (152 to 1,554 m), at Pearsoll Peak. The area is characterized by deep, rough canyons, sharp rock ridges, and clear, rushing mountain streams and rivers. The wilderness includes the headwater basins of the Chetco, North Fork Smith Rivers, as well as part of the Illinois River ...
Erratic Rock State Natural Site is a state park in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States.Featuring a 40-short-ton (36 t) glacial erratic from the Missoula Floods, the small park sits atop a foothill of the Northern Oregon Coast Range in Yamhill County between Sheridan and McMinnville off Oregon Route 18.
The North Fork John Day Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Umatilla and Wallowa–Whitman National Forests in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. [1] [2]The wilderness consists of four separate units: the main 85,000-acre (34,000 ha) unit of the North Fork John Day drainage; the Greenhorn Unit to the south; the Tower Mountain Unit to the north; and the Baldy Creek Unit to the east.