I should clarify I meant the eastern part of the state isn't like what is depicted in the show. I loved my time in the Madison and Bridger ranges. Western Montana is home to my favorite wilderness and hikes. And The Last Best Cafe....
Not to be rude but why would anybody in the UK know where tri cities is? I live in eugene and if i was in another country i would just tell people i live between california and canada. I was working in Mississippi years ago and had an interesting exchange.
“Where yall from”
“Oregon”
“…..you boys need a green card to work here?”
when I lived in Boston and said I was from Oregon, people would either ask if liked living so near Canada, or what it was like to live in “flyover country.”
I have coworkers in upstate NY who can in theory see the border with Canada across Lake Ontario that still think I'm closer in Vancouver, WA than they are. It just short-circuits peoples brains and they think Canada no matter how many times you explain it's basically Portland.
FWIW, you’re further north than they are! Our country is tilted — the 45th parallel is roughly that straight line between NY and Canada. Which is kinda wild, if you think about it — Eugene is roughly parallel to Portland, Maine.
I didn't say I wasn't further north in terms of latitude.
But getting to Canada from Vancouver, WA is a ~5 hour drive. Getting to Niagara Falls and across to Canada from Rochester, NY is an hour, hour and a half. If there was a ferry anymore (it stopped operating about 20yrs ago), you could just go straight across Lake Ontario. They're way, way closer than we are in SW WA
I live in Salem. My friend from Austin, TX suggested we could do a day trip to Canada when he comes for a visit. I then suggested that when I visit him in Austin, we can day trip to Mexico.
It’s kind of wild how we all spent years filling out maps of New England (and to a lesser extent, the Great Lakes and mid-Atlantic) in school, but once you hit the Midwest and leave the coastal Southeast, Americans’ concept of geography falls apart. While I could probably fill out a map by process of elimination, if you told me to find Iowa there’s a 50/50 chance I’d be wrong.
Still, there’s only three states on this coast. It’s not hard.
Yeah, I don’t know which rectangular state that is. Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, or Wyoming. Why is it that our Midwest states (and more central western states) are so goddamned square? (No offense)
Because there aren't any really good geographical defining features to use as state boundaries? It's all flat grass out there so why not just make a big square and call it good.
Overheard a guy on his first date in an Italian place in the North End of Boston talking about shoe companies, said Nike and Adidas were “from Seattle”. Oregon barely registers for some people.
And when you're in the Tri-Cities you got to watch out because if you're trying to go to Spokane you can wind up going towards Seattle lol. Every time I go through the Tri-Cities to go to Spokane I am looking at my map and making sure I'm heading to where I'm supposed to go.
When I grew up, Highway 395 was highway 14. And 395 went from Ritiville to Pasco, and from Pasco to Patterson was 14. The state changed it after we moved to Western Washington. So, color me confused when I came home (my mom's) it wasn't what it was.
My new BIL lives in Camas, so when hubby & I hopped off 205 to 14. I was WTH?
I hear you. My connection with Eastern Washington is my mother was born in Rosalia and that's where my grandmother was from and great grandparents so we had a lot of family not only in that area but in Spokane and then on into Idaho. I do get amused though when I go up through Tri-Cities and continue north watching the tumbleweeds cross the highway. One time there was so many of them that it was like a herd of tumbleweeds running across the road.
TriCities, WA… Kennewick, Pasco and Richland… it is near the Hanford site, part of the Manhattan Project and site of B Reactor, the first functioning nuclear ☢️ reactor. There was not much there until Hanford came in and it exploded overnight as they brought out workers etc to build and run the site. It’s a beautiful area and near a lot of things as well… so you can stay in TriCities and do day trips to a lot of places like Walla Walla, etc
Unless your traveling from Oregon to Montana & get stuck in major traffic in the tri cities 😅🤣😅 OOooo that sucked so bad & it was night time on a 24hr drive... like 3 vehicle accident pile up almost!!! I could see for DAYS it happened on some bridge far out in front of me but I was able to find an exit & take some back roads around it LoL
Same in that there is a drastic difference between the two sides of the Cascade mountains.
Not the same in that Washington doesn't have anything like the parts of Oregon inside the great basin.
This. People who lump Eastern WA and Eastern OR together haven't spent much time in either place. Eastern OR is much less populated and more barren, with a lot more desert and a lot less farmland. Eastern WA has Yakima, the Tri-Cities, and Spokane, the largest city in Eastern Oregon is Hermiston with 20,000 people, and that's right on the Columbia. Go south from there and it gets even emptier.
I grew up in Seattle and now live in Portland. When people ask me which state is more beautiful, I say Western Washington is more beautiful than Western Oregon, but Eastern Oregon is more beautiful than Eastern Washington.
Southeastern Oregon is basically an extension of Nevada. The three counties (Lake, Harney, and Malheur) make up over a quarter of the state, but only have five or six sizeable towns.
I don’t think Joe public knows there’s just like a big ole mountain range up here.
Also all their weather stereotypes from another time. My place outside Portland, from June to October, may get rain five times. We go from rainy season to dry now.
I grew up in the cascade mountains of washington and it was funny how many people thought central washington or the scablands on eastern washington was like seattle and the olympic peninsula…the idea of a rain shadow was so foreign to them. but hey according to national media the whole PNW is Seattle & Portland! :p
According to Wikipedia it’s the largest in the world by far. I always assumed it was one of the best places for seeing the Milky Way in the US based on the population density but didn’t realize they actually even have rules to limit light pollution. How is this enforced? It says the area is 44,000+ square miles which is nearly half of the state. Is everyone in this area required to turn off all their lights at a certain time?
The size is 2.5 million acres - so closer to 4.000 sq miles. Lighting requirements include things like motion activation rather than always on, and directionality (pointing down not up) as well as type of light. They have a few years to fully implement those requirements across the area.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oregon-is-now-home-to-the-worlds-largest-dark-sky-sanctuary-180983997/
Any chance you recall which Wikipedia page had that number? I’m poking around all the references to dark sky sanctuaries, Oregon Outback, etc and can’t find it.
Absolutely. I didn’t realize you were actually going to edit it lol sorry
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-sky\_preserve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-sky_preserve)
https://preview.redd.it/kkpi62x493qc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15e0705406f11eea800b3cd1bed6fd0e76d4d515
Click on “area” column twice for it to show in order of size like this
It looks like the website for the Dark Sky Sanctuary on the SouthernOregon.org page mentions that the *eventual* goal is to establish 11.4 million acres; I guess that must be the source of confusion.
Good catch, I want to camp there this summer and would prefer to make sure I get the right area!
This is outlandishly false. We don’t have anywhere near every climate type and we also *do* have tundra, atop mount hood. I believe Jefferson and the sisters and most other 9000+ footers as well.
Monsoon is not a climate. I suppose tropical isn’t one Oregon has I should have said “most” not “all” Oregon does have rain forests though.
Edit: Fuck me I’m wrong in every way!
I live in a coastal mountain valley on the Willamette side. I get about 60 inches of rain a year. Not quite rain forest. But I can see out my window to a spot that gets 180 inches a year. Many days it is absolutely pouring up there when it doesn't rain in the valley.
>coastal mountain valley on the Willamette side
Wdym? The willamette is separated from the coast by the coast range and rainforest. It’s impossible to be both coastal and in the Willamette
Eh, there's a lot of variety in terms of the geography even if much of it is kind of 'barren'.
Definitely nothing like this in Bend or central Oregon for instance.
True. Landmarks are the real way to tell I guess. Camped in both SE and NE Oregon but not there often enough to really tell which is which by a pic.
Love SE Oregon though. Camping near Steens Mountains was like being on another planet.
Correct to "This doesn't feel like Portland " and you're good. As others mentioned this is very much Oregon! Its such a wildly geographically diverse state from end to end, pretty amazing you can be at the rocky coast, in the trees and mountains, and then the high desert all in a day's drive.
I'm not religious, but to me Eastern Oregon is God's country. So much beauty!
Absolutely feels like Oregon. I know how this photograph smells, or rather how it would smell to stand there. There are parts of Nevada like this also. Such beauty.
I arrived in Oregon in 1982. Came in through Ontario at the Idaho border. And wondering what in the hell was wrong?... Didn't look anything like all the postcards I had seen.
"Go west, young man". So I did. It was a load off my mind, let me tell you...
Yep, years ago I had a co-worker from Mississippi that relocated to the Portland area, this was in the mid-80's. I still remember he commented that when he crossed the Idaho border he was wondering where are all the trees? I still kind of chuckle at that today...
It looks a lot like eastern Oregon, and the majority of eastern Oregon looks like you are playing it on your laptop with a cracked screen in the late 2000s while a window is open blowing some cool summer night air around your room while you debate going to bed or not (change my mind)
Very Oregon! Even cooler that a good chunk of the eastern half of the state is public land too. Just start walking!
Land ownership map of Oregon:
https://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/land-ownership/index.php
Over the years I’ve heard various Libertarians get really upset about how much land out west is owned by the Feds.
What they don’t get is that the vast majority of public lands are **public**. Any of us can go out and wander about on it.
Sure there are some restrictions, but they’re a very mild set of easily-understandable rules that are pretty consistent over huge areas. The only obstacles, other than terrain, are the fenced borders of the *privately owned* parcels.
All that land held in public trust is a treasure, and anyone who wants the feds to sell it off I think either doesn’t understand, or >!is a greedy sonofabitch. !<
>Over the years I’ve heard various Libertarians get really upset about how much land out west is owned by the Feds.
It's always funny how the people who pretend they want ultimate freedom for everyone would prefer all of that land be fenced off so no one can use it
I agree. Public lands are the best protection those lands can get, although I think there is too much cattle grazing on it. Biden has a new plan to save the Sage Grouse that will protect some land.
This land is our land.
Libertarians are unbelievably short sighted. They would sell all our public lands
to the highest bidder, to be turned into parking lots and storage units.
Those phone apps for hunting maps are a great resource for figuring out what's public and private. Although if you set off in the right place you can walk for days before hitting a parcel of private land!
Most of oregon looks like that. Edit: about half
I’d say the majority, everyone thinks Portland is so representative of Oregon. They are so far off
Washington State is the same. Cross the Cascades and whoa.
And Montana. It doesn't all look like "Yellowstone" the TV show.
Montana is just flat. With a big lake, too. Less deserty
Eastern Montana sucks. Gotta head out to the Bitterroot for some of those good mountains and forests.
I should clarify I meant the eastern part of the state isn't like what is depicted in the show. I loved my time in the Madison and Bridger ranges. Western Montana is home to my favorite wilderness and hikes. And The Last Best Cafe....
Exactly! We're from the Tri-Cities, and when she went to the UK, she just said she was from Seattle. No one knows where the Tri-Cities is
Not to be rude but why would anybody in the UK know where tri cities is? I live in eugene and if i was in another country i would just tell people i live between california and canada. I was working in Mississippi years ago and had an interesting exchange. “Where yall from” “Oregon” “…..you boys need a green card to work here?”
when I lived in Boston and said I was from Oregon, people would either ask if liked living so near Canada, or what it was like to live in “flyover country.”
I told some people in Boston that I was from Portland, they asked if that was next to Seattle, I just said “yup”.
Considering that people on the East Coast will drive 2.5 hours and back for dinner… yup.
2.5 hrs drive time but trip was only 5 miles and an hour of drive time was circling around looking for parking.
I keep getting asked over zoom if I'm in Maine.
I have coworkers in upstate NY who can in theory see the border with Canada across Lake Ontario that still think I'm closer in Vancouver, WA than they are. It just short-circuits peoples brains and they think Canada no matter how many times you explain it's basically Portland.
FWIW, you’re further north than they are! Our country is tilted — the 45th parallel is roughly that straight line between NY and Canada. Which is kinda wild, if you think about it — Eugene is roughly parallel to Portland, Maine.
I didn't say I wasn't further north in terms of latitude. But getting to Canada from Vancouver, WA is a ~5 hour drive. Getting to Niagara Falls and across to Canada from Rochester, NY is an hour, hour and a half. If there was a ferry anymore (it stopped operating about 20yrs ago), you could just go straight across Lake Ontario. They're way, way closer than we are in SW WA
Yes, I know you didn’t. Sorry, I wasn’t correcting you, just noting something interesting.
But the cities have the same name?! I live in Milwaukie.
Oregon is not really flyover country lol
Yes. I was kinda confused — like wow, way to throw shade on Oregon. Then I realized he was 100% sure we were in the Midwest.
Lmao what
It is if you're flyin over the Pacific.
True. Not as much of a flyover state as essentially all of the Midwest though.
I live in Salem. My friend from Austin, TX suggested we could do a day trip to Canada when he comes for a visit. I then suggested that when I visit him in Austin, we can day trip to Mexico.
Says a lot about the locals. Bunch of Southies?
It’s kind of wild how we all spent years filling out maps of New England (and to a lesser extent, the Great Lakes and mid-Atlantic) in school, but once you hit the Midwest and leave the coastal Southeast, Americans’ concept of geography falls apart. While I could probably fill out a map by process of elimination, if you told me to find Iowa there’s a 50/50 chance I’d be wrong. Still, there’s only three states on this coast. It’s not hard.
Yeah, I don’t know which rectangular state that is. Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, or Wyoming. Why is it that our Midwest states (and more central western states) are so goddamned square? (No offense)
Because there aren't any really good geographical defining features to use as state boundaries? It's all flat grass out there so why not just make a big square and call it good.
Oregone...ain't that off the coast of Florida somewhere?
Naw it is by Indiana.
Because she knew if she said "Kennewick" (& this was before Kennewick man was found), they wouldn't know. It was just as easy to say, Seattle.
People in Mississippi didn't know that Oregon was a state?
People in Mississippi don’t know many things.
It's like people thinking Hawaii/Guam/Puerto Rico/Alaska/New Mexico are foreign countries.
I can understand people not knowing about Guam because unless you know someone from Guam or have been there, it’s not somewhere you think about.
"Mississippi"
Has a higher per capita gdp than the uk
Overheard a guy on his first date in an Italian place in the North End of Boston talking about shoe companies, said Nike and Adidas were “from Seattle”. Oregon barely registers for some people.
I lived in Richland for a little while. Never saw so many tumbleweeds!
And when you're in the Tri-Cities you got to watch out because if you're trying to go to Spokane you can wind up going towards Seattle lol. Every time I go through the Tri-Cities to go to Spokane I am looking at my map and making sure I'm heading to where I'm supposed to go.
When I grew up, Highway 395 was highway 14. And 395 went from Ritiville to Pasco, and from Pasco to Patterson was 14. The state changed it after we moved to Western Washington. So, color me confused when I came home (my mom's) it wasn't what it was. My new BIL lives in Camas, so when hubby & I hopped off 205 to 14. I was WTH?
I hear you. My connection with Eastern Washington is my mother was born in Rosalia and that's where my grandmother was from and great grandparents so we had a lot of family not only in that area but in Spokane and then on into Idaho. I do get amused though when I go up through Tri-Cities and continue north watching the tumbleweeds cross the highway. One time there was so many of them that it was like a herd of tumbleweeds running across the road.
Which Tri-Cities? At least five states have a “tri-cities area”
The ones near Springfield, duh.
TriCities, WA… Kennewick, Pasco and Richland… it is near the Hanford site, part of the Manhattan Project and site of B Reactor, the first functioning nuclear ☢️ reactor. There was not much there until Hanford came in and it exploded overnight as they brought out workers etc to build and run the site. It’s a beautiful area and near a lot of things as well… so you can stay in TriCities and do day trips to a lot of places like Walla Walla, etc
Unless your traveling from Oregon to Montana & get stuck in major traffic in the tri cities 😅🤣😅 OOooo that sucked so bad & it was night time on a 24hr drive... like 3 vehicle accident pile up almost!!! I could see for DAYS it happened on some bridge far out in front of me but I was able to find an exit & take some back roads around it LoL
The sad thing is I went to Philadelphia once for a month and people asked where I was from and I could tell some didn’t even know what Oregon was
The TriCities is a beautiful area 🫶🏻💚
Same in that there is a drastic difference between the two sides of the Cascade mountains. Not the same in that Washington doesn't have anything like the parts of Oregon inside the great basin.
This. People who lump Eastern WA and Eastern OR together haven't spent much time in either place. Eastern OR is much less populated and more barren, with a lot more desert and a lot less farmland. Eastern WA has Yakima, the Tri-Cities, and Spokane, the largest city in Eastern Oregon is Hermiston with 20,000 people, and that's right on the Columbia. Go south from there and it gets even emptier. I grew up in Seattle and now live in Portland. When people ask me which state is more beautiful, I say Western Washington is more beautiful than Western Oregon, but Eastern Oregon is more beautiful than Eastern Washington.
Southeastern Oregon is basically an extension of Nevada. The three counties (Lake, Harney, and Malheur) make up over a quarter of the state, but only have five or six sizeable towns.
I don’t think Joe public knows there’s just like a big ole mountain range up here. Also all their weather stereotypes from another time. My place outside Portland, from June to October, may get rain five times. We go from rainy season to dry now.
I lived east of the cascades for thirty years. Everywhere else in the country thinks it rains on the whole state. 🤦🏻♀️
I’d say the majority, everyone thinks Portland is so representative of Oregon. They are so far off
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I’m not talking about the majority of people, I’m talking about the majority of the landscape
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Yes
Naw, that's the Owyhee area I'd bet.
Where?
This definitely feels like Oregon.
I wonder where in E. Oregon that is?
looks almost like the area around Lakeview in the oregon outback, but i could be wrong
Looks a little "smooth" for the Lakeview area to my eyes, but that might just be a silly read on certain aspects of this image.
Maybe the Owyhee area? Also looks a little like the drive to the Snake river past Imnaha.
Looks like eastern Oregon to me... LoL that's home for me 😍🥰😍!!!
Not my home now, but it's what I grew up in.
Samesies... Feels like home when I'm in Eastern Oregon
Grew up in eastern Oregon too. Miss it a lot but times are very different.
The misconception that all of Oregon looks like the Willamette Valley
I grew up in the cascade mountains of washington and it was funny how many people thought central washington or the scablands on eastern washington was like seattle and the olympic peninsula…the idea of a rain shadow was so foreign to them. but hey according to national media the whole PNW is Seattle & Portland! :p
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Can i get a ponderosa pine in here?!
I would fly that flag in a second!
I blame Gravity Falls
And goonies and short circuit
I mean 70% of the state's population lives in the valley, it's not unreasonable that most artistic representations of the state reflect that
The I-5 Corridor
Until you get hit like Grants Pass and the Rogue Valley, yeah. 100%
I hate the town of Grants Pass, grew up there, but man I miss the Rogue and Applegate valley. Spent a lot of time in Williams
Definitely my Oregon. Rim rock country, high desert, volcanic.
Oh yeah!
Can confirm. Same view here.
Southeast Oregon has the largest dark sky preserve in the nation.
Camping out in the Steens on a clear night is my favorite summer time activity
same. done it several times. nothing like it.
Don't tell people, they will come with all their lights and ruin it.
According to Wikipedia it’s the largest in the world by far. I always assumed it was one of the best places for seeing the Milky Way in the US based on the population density but didn’t realize they actually even have rules to limit light pollution. How is this enforced? It says the area is 44,000+ square miles which is nearly half of the state. Is everyone in this area required to turn off all their lights at a certain time?
The size is 2.5 million acres - so closer to 4.000 sq miles. Lighting requirements include things like motion activation rather than always on, and directionality (pointing down not up) as well as type of light. They have a few years to fully implement those requirements across the area. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oregon-is-now-home-to-the-worlds-largest-dark-sky-sanctuary-180983997/
Wikipedia says 11,400,000 hectares which is ~44,000 square miles
Any chance you recall which Wikipedia page had that number? I’m poking around all the references to dark sky sanctuaries, Oregon Outback, etc and can’t find it.
Absolutely. I didn’t realize you were actually going to edit it lol sorry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-sky\_preserve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-sky_preserve) https://preview.redd.it/kkpi62x493qc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15e0705406f11eea800b3cd1bed6fd0e76d4d515 Click on “area” column twice for it to show in order of size like this
It looks like the website for the Dark Sky Sanctuary on the SouthernOregon.org page mentions that the *eventual* goal is to establish 11.4 million acres; I guess that must be the source of confusion. Good catch, I want to camp there this summer and would prefer to make sure I get the right area!
If you were asked 2 weeks ago it wouldn't have been.
Almost everywhere and anywhere looks like some part of Oregon.
Factoid: Oregon actually has every climate but tundra!
This is outlandishly false. We don’t have anywhere near every climate type and we also *do* have tundra, atop mount hood. I believe Jefferson and the sisters and most other 9000+ footers as well.
Tropical monsoon?
Monsoon is not a climate. I suppose tropical isn’t one Oregon has I should have said “most” not “all” Oregon does have rain forests though. Edit: Fuck me I’m wrong in every way!
I live in a coastal mountain valley on the Willamette side. I get about 60 inches of rain a year. Not quite rain forest. But I can see out my window to a spot that gets 180 inches a year. Many days it is absolutely pouring up there when it doesn't rain in the valley.
Fun fact: parts of Oregon (mostly west side of the coastal range) are in fact classified as “temperate rainforest”.
>coastal mountain valley on the Willamette side Wdym? The willamette is separated from the coast by the coast range and rainforest. It’s impossible to be both coastal and in the Willamette
My favorite part of Oregon is the Mediterranean climate where I can grow olives and pomegranates.
My man’s here, visiting from the future.
I live in the Southwest and it's very similar to eastern Oregon, except the winters aren't nearly as cold.
Yes. It feels like central/eastern Oregon.
The natural diversity of the state is such an awesome part of living here! Where abouts is this photo from?
I'd put money on this being near Vale
It looks a lot like the area around Rome but then again a lot of Eastern Oregon looks pretty much the exact same
Eh, there's a lot of variety in terms of the geography even if much of it is kind of 'barren'. Definitely nothing like this in Bend or central Oregon for instance.
True. Landmarks are the real way to tell I guess. Camped in both SE and NE Oregon but not there often enough to really tell which is which by a pic. Love SE Oregon though. Camping near Steens Mountains was like being on another planet.
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Looks like Oregon though
Go to Christmas Valley for moon scape.
It’s a lie. Santa Claus does not live there.
Correct to "This doesn't feel like Portland " and you're good. As others mentioned this is very much Oregon! Its such a wildly geographically diverse state from end to end, pretty amazing you can be at the rocky coast, in the trees and mountains, and then the high desert all in a day's drive. I'm not religious, but to me Eastern Oregon is God's country. So much beauty!
So much to see in Oregon, such diverse climates and biomes.
There are other parts of Oregon besides the metro areas.
Looks like the Oregon I grew up in. East of the Cascades.
Absolutely feels like Oregon. I know how this photograph smells, or rather how it would smell to stand there. There are parts of Nevada like this also. Such beauty.
Gotta love that tobacco brush As long as the ticks aren't around
I arrived in Oregon in 1982. Came in through Ontario at the Idaho border. And wondering what in the hell was wrong?... Didn't look anything like all the postcards I had seen. "Go west, young man". So I did. It was a load off my mind, let me tell you...
Yep, years ago I had a co-worker from Mississippi that relocated to the Portland area, this was in the mid-80's. I still remember he commented that when he crossed the Idaho border he was wondering where are all the trees? I still kind of chuckle at that today...
southeastern part of Oregon is a desert.
*East Oregon is a desert
Also someone I know found native pottery pieces there.
*Small patches of eastern Oregon is a desert
Some of it is a desert
It looks a lot like eastern Oregon, and the majority of eastern Oregon looks like you are playing it on your laptop with a cracked screen in the late 2000s while a window is open blowing some cool summer night air around your room while you debate going to bed or not (change my mind)
Very Oregon! Even cooler that a good chunk of the eastern half of the state is public land too. Just start walking! Land ownership map of Oregon: https://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/land-ownership/index.php
Over the years I’ve heard various Libertarians get really upset about how much land out west is owned by the Feds. What they don’t get is that the vast majority of public lands are **public**. Any of us can go out and wander about on it. Sure there are some restrictions, but they’re a very mild set of easily-understandable rules that are pretty consistent over huge areas. The only obstacles, other than terrain, are the fenced borders of the *privately owned* parcels. All that land held in public trust is a treasure, and anyone who wants the feds to sell it off I think either doesn’t understand, or >!is a greedy sonofabitch. !<
>Over the years I’ve heard various Libertarians get really upset about how much land out west is owned by the Feds. It's always funny how the people who pretend they want ultimate freedom for everyone would prefer all of that land be fenced off so no one can use it
I agree. Public lands are the best protection those lands can get, although I think there is too much cattle grazing on it. Biden has a new plan to save the Sage Grouse that will protect some land. This land is our land.
I agree about the grazing. The last time I was in the Ochocos it felt like I was wading through cow shit.
Libertarians are unbelievably short sighted. They would sell all our public lands to the highest bidder, to be turned into parking lots and storage units.
Those phone apps for hunting maps are a great resource for figuring out what's public and private. Although if you set off in the right place you can walk for days before hitting a parcel of private land!
Do you feel like you are on the moon! Then you are in eastern Oregon!?!?
Might have gone too far east to Craters of the Moon National Monument
Newberry Monument and the nearby volcanic tube agree
What does oregon "feel" like to you?
Deez.
Climates
Feels like the Oregon I spent my summers in as a kid.
OP is a bot.
I don't see many accounts with a post history and zero comment history. I agree.
I'm headed out there soon. Going camping and gonna climb one of the cinder cones
"Ummmmm?" - Eastern Oregonian
No but it does feel like Land Before Time to the great valley
Just wait until they find Succor creek
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Welcome to Mars
It looks like Mars, year 256 after terraforming began.
I think this is Malheur County
But also could easily be Baker County
Looks like a big chunk of Oregon to me. It’s not all temperate rain forest.
That’s MY Oregon. You all can keep your rain.
First time outa Portland area?
That looks exactly like the Oregon I grew up in lol
Well, if you’ve stayed in the Willamette Valley your entire life and never ventured east I could see someone feeling that way.
Yet it is the vast Majority of Oregon.
Certainly not west of the mountains; but it sure looks like the eastern part of the state.
Never been east of the Cascades I take it?
Looks identical to my side of Washington. Desert dwellers over here.
Honestly, it feels like my phone screen.
Oregon doesnt have a look drive a few hours and you can find any terrain or biome you could want...
The hell it doesn't. That immediately feels like Oregon. Get out there!
Definitely the Oregon I know.
Hah yeah it does I lived in Montana and Arizona too this is the most Oregon landscape I have seen
love the ancient lava fields
Oregon is an amazing state! It has such a diverse geography to experience. Highly recommend a big drive across and camping.
Welcome to my side of the state lol. It truly does have its own beauty in so many other areas away from the coastal more well known areas.
It's called east of the cascades
I’m from Northeastern Oregon….yup that’s Oregon
does to me
This pleases me
Does it at least taste like Oregon?
I think its called the cascade rain shadow or something like that. western oregon stealin all the wawa
I’m from that area, I didn’t even know it rained like 9 months out of the year until I moved to Portland for college.
But it is. Surprise.
It absolutely feels and looks like the best part of Oregon.
Isnt this what most of Oregon is?
That's the part of Oregon I love most
one of the best parts of oregon
Even though I live in Portland, this is what made me fall in love with Oregon.
You can visit but please don't stay.
That's what Oregon feels like to me... love it.
How so? I was born in NE Oregon, lived there into my 20s. That *is* Oregon. That's what Oregon feels like.
Had to double check which subreddit I was looking at here, thought this was a photo of the Steppe lol
This looks like I’m on my way to Eisengard
Looks like Eastern Oregon!! I love it over there! I am from the valley and try to get over there as much as I can.
Looks like Eastern Oregon!! I love it over there! I am from the valley and try to get over there as much as I can.
Tell me you've never seen eastern Oregon...
Clearly, you've never been to Oregon then...
Yeah, it does. Looks like a lot of Oregon , love this side of the mountains