Oregon
328 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Astoria and the Fur Trade: First on the Columbia
- Salmon and the Dammed Columbia: A River's Long Reckoning
- Statehood and the Exclusion Clause: A Constitution with a Condition
- The Douglas Fir Empire: Timber and the Forests That Fed a Nation
- The High Desert: East of the Cascades, the Other Oregon
- The Nez Perce Flight: One Thousand Miles Toward Canada
- The Oregon Coast: Three Hundred Sixty Miles of Common Ground
- The Oregon Trail: End of the Road in the Willamette Valley
- The Provisional Government: Oregon Governs Itself Before the Nation Gets Around to It
- The Vanport Flood: When the River Came for the Second City
- Tom McCall's Oregon: The Beach, the Bottle, and the Line Around the City
- What Oregon Is: A State at the Edge of Its Own Contradictions
Near Ashland
- Ashland: Mills, Rails, a Failed Spa, and Shakespeare
- Central Point: Named at the Crossroads
- How Ashland Eclipsed Jacksonville
- Lithia Park and the Rotten-Egg Resort That Never Was
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Stage in the Siskiyous
- Phoenix: Gasburg Rises Again
- Southern Oregon University: Ten Names and a Hundred and Fifty Years
- Talent: The Postmaster Who Became a Town
- The Chautauqua Era: Sousa, Bryan, and a Roofless Dome
- The Takelma Homeland and the Rogue River War
Near Cannon Beach
- A Village of Artists
- Brighton, Oregon: The Resort That Never Was
- Chinook Nation: Undocumented by the Government That Documented Everything Else
- Ecola Creek and the Great Whale
- Ecola State Park, the Grandest Prospect
- Ecola State Park: The Whale, the Word, and the Corps of Discovery
- Fort Clatsop: One Hundred Seven Days of Rain and Rot
- Goonies Never Say Die
- Haystack Rock at One Point Four Million Years
- Haystack Rock, the Beacon of Cannon Beach
- Haystack Rock: Third Largest Intertidal Monolith in the World
- Lewis and Clark at Fort Clatsop: The Winter the Pacific Disappointed Them
- Lewis and Clark at the Columbia: The River Already Full of People
- The Beach Bill, Born From a Fence
- The Buried Treasure of the Coast
- The Cannon That Named the Town
- The Coastal Rainforest of Giant Spruce
- The First People of This Shore
- The Oregon Beach Bill: Who Owns the Coast
- The Oregon Donation Land Claim Act: Two Million Acres in Three Years
- The Wave of Nineteen Sixty Four
- York: Crossing the Continent Without a Choice
Near Dundee
- Argyle Winery and Oregon Bubbles
- Aurora: Oregon's Utopian Colony
- Barlow: End of the Road That Opened Oregon
- Butteville: Oldest Store on the Willamette
- Challenger Memorial Rose Garden
- David Lett, Papa Pinot, and the Eyrie Vineyards
- Dick Erath and the First Winery in the Hills
- Domaine Drouhin: When Burgundy Crossed the Ocean
- Donald: Hops, Hazelnuts, and an Electric Railway
- Durham: Named for the Man Who Built Lake Oswego
- Hazelnut Country: Oregon's Nut Capital
- Highway 99W: The Two-Lane Road Through Wine Country
- Hubbard: A Town Built on a Railroad Deal
- Jory: The Red Volcanic Soil Beneath Your Wheels
- Larry Gilbert Dahl Memorial Highway
- Saint Louis: First Parish of French Prairie
- Settlement, Worship, and Removal: The Meek Family Burying Ground
- Sokol Blosser and the Abandoned Prune Orchard
- The Beaver Theatre and the Silent Film Organists
- The Dundee Hills: Where American Pinot Noir Was Born
- The Jenkins Estate
- The Kalapuya and the Fire-Kept Valley
- The Man Who Named Nike
- The Tasting That Shook the Wine World
- The Willamette Meridian
- William Reid, the Scotsman Who Named Dundee
- Wilsonville: Boone's Landing on the Willamette
- Woodburn: Oregon's Most Latino City
Near Eugene
- Autzen Stadium: The Loudest House in College Football
- Bird's Nest: Eugene Skinner and the City He Named for Himself
- Coburg: Named for a Horse from Bavaria
- Cottage Grove: Covered Bridges and Hollywood
- Creswell: Named for a Postmaster General
- EWEB and the Typhoid That Made a Utility
- Hayward Field: The Cathedral of American Distance Running
- Jogging: The Book That Changed How America Moved
- Ken Kesey, Springfield Boy, and the Bus That Left for Everywhere
- Oregon Bach Festival: Stuttgart to Eugene
- Oregon Country Fair: The Festival That Became a Community
- Pre's Rock
- Spencer Butte: The Rattlesnake Hill at the Edge of the City
- The McKenzie River: Eight Thousand Years of Passage
- The Oldest Outdoor Crafts Market in the Country
- The University That Almost Closed in Its Fifth Year
- The Waffle Iron and the World's Biggest Shoe Company
- The Whiteaker: Oregon's First Governor and the Neighborhood That Outgrew Him
- The Wood That Built the Valley
- Ya-Po-Ah: The Valley the Kalapuya Made
Near Klamath Falls
- Link River and the Falls That Named the Town
- The Favell Museum
- The Geothermal City and Oregon Tech
- The Klamath Reclamation Project
- The Klamath Tribes: Termination and Return
- The Largest Dam Removal in History
- The OC and E Woods Line Trail
- The Oregon Tech O
- The Pacific Flyway and the Eagles
- The Water Wars
- Timber Capital of the Pines
Near Mcminnville
- Hops, Prunes, and the Farms Before the Vines
- Kalapuya and the Valley They Maintained
- Linfield University, the Pioneer Baptist College
- Nick's Italian Cafe and the Pinot Noir Celebration
- Papa Pinot: David Lett and the Eyrie Vineyards
- The Kalapuya, the First People of the Yamhill
- The McMinnville Grand Ballroom
- The Railroad That Built Downtown McMinnville
- The Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes's Wooden Giant
- The Trent UFO Photographs and the McMinnville UFO Festival
- Third Street, McMinnville's Victorian Downtown
- Turkey Rama and the Turkey Capital
- William Newby's Mill and the Founding of McMinnville
Near Salem
- Asahel Bush and the Power Behind Salem
- Chemawa and What Was Taken
- Chemawa Indian School: Oldest Boarding School Still Running
- Gervais: Named for a Fur-Trade Pioneer
- Jacob Vanderpool and Oregon's Exclusion Laws
- Jason Lee and the Mission That Became a City
- Millersburg: Incorporated by a Vote of Seventy-Six to Seventy-Four
- Oregon State Hospital and the Room of Three Thousand Urns
- Salem Began Here
- Salem's Chinatown, Erased Block by Block
- The Art Deco Capitol and the Gold Man on Top
- The Kalapuya and the Valley They Shaped
- The Name Between Two Cities
- The River That Was Salem's Highway
- Thomas Kay's Mill and the Fabric of Oregon
- Turner: A Miller's Name on a Railroad Stop
- Willamette University and the Oldest College West
Along the way
- Aaron Campbell and Portland's Use-of-Force Record
- Albany, Oregon: The Victorian Survivor
- Albany's First Frame House
- Albina: Built, Stripped, and Branded
- Arlington: Alkali Flats Become a River Town
- Arock: Oregon's Basque Corner
- Austin, Oregon , Blue Mountains Supply Depot
- Baker City Tower
- Baker City: Queen of the Mines
- Baker City: Queen of the Mines
- Bend: From Sawdust to Outdoor Capital
- Bend's Second Act: From Mill Town to Mountain Town
- Beverly Cleary's Real Klickitat Street
- Biggs Junction: Where the River Road Split
- Boardman: Water Turned the Desert Green
- Bonneville Dam and the Fish Ladder Compromise
- Boring, Oregon
- Bridal Veil, Oregon
- Bridal Veil: Company Town in the Gorge
- Burns Paiute Tribe
- Canyonville: Third-Oldest Settlement in Oregon
- Cascade Locks: Engineering the Columbia
- Cascade Locks: Opening the Columbia
- Cascade Locks: Where the Columbia River Was Tamed
- Celilo Falls, Ten Thousand Years Silenced in a Day
- Celilo Falls: Fifteen Thousand Years, Ended in Hours
- Conde McCullough's Bridges: Oregon's Art Deco Depression
- Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
- Construction of the Columbia River Highway
- Coos Bay's Egyptian Theatre
- Corbett and Crown Point
- Crater Lake: The Klamath Saw the Mountain Fall
- Crater Lake: What Llao and Skell Left Behind
- Crook County Bank Building, Prineville
- Crown Point and the Vista House
- Crown Point: The Highway That Was Art
- Danford Balch Homesite: Oregon Trail's Six Hundred and Forty Acres
- Depoe Bay: The World's Smallest Natural Harbor
- Depoe Bay: World's Smallest Harbor
- Deschutes National Forest: Lava, Juniper, and the City That Decided It Was Outdoors
- Durkee, Oregon
- Echo, Oregon: Named for a Three-Year-Old
- Edgefield: Two Thousand Graves Beneath the Resort
- Fairview: Named for What You Can See
- First Bank of Vale
- Forest Park: Five Thousand Two Hundred Acres of Accidental Wilderness
- Fort Cascades
- Fort Vancouver: Capital of the Oregon Country
- Fort William: Wyeth's Gamble on the Columbia
- Fremont-Winema: The Eastern Flank of Crater Lake
- Frenchy Latourell and His Columbia River Home
- Gardiner: The White City by the Sea
- Gateway to Crater Lake
- Geiser Grand Hotel: Queen of the Mines
- Glass Buttes: Oregon's Obsidian Hills
- Glencoe in Oregon: A Scottish Memorial
- Glendale: Julia by Any Other Name
- Gold Hill: Pocket Mine on the Rogue
- Grand Ronde: Termination, Restoration, and Twenty-Seven Nations in One Government
- Grant County Gold Rush
- Grants Pass: It's the Climate
- Gresham Carnegie Library
- Halsey: A Vice President's Name in the Valley
- Hatfield Marine Science Center
- Hatfield Marine Science Center
- He Who Thinks He's Invisible
- Hells Canyon and the Nez Perce Exile: The Deepest Gorge in North America
- Hells Canyon: The Deepest Gorge in North America
- Hells Canyon: The Gorge Deeper Than the Grand Canyon
- Historic Columbia River Highway: The First Scenic Road in America
- Honeyman State Park: Built by the CCC
- Hood River Depot
- Hood River Windsurfing: A New Geography of Play
- Hood River: Pears, Wind, and a Town That Welcomed the Unwelcome
- Hood River: We Don't Want You Back
- Huntington: Where Two Railroads Met
- Island City: The Town on the Grande Ronde Island
- Japanese Balloon Bombs: The Fu-Go Campaign
- Joe Meek: Mountain Man, Oregon Founder
- Kam Wah Chung: Doc Hay's Place
- Keep Portland Weird: The Decade It Was True
- Keiko: The Orca Who Came to Newport and Could Not Go Home
- Kernville, Oregon: Salmon, Spruce, and a Bridge That Moved a Town
- La Grande: Where the Oregon Trail Rested
- Latourell: From Timber Town to Ghost Town
- Lava River Cave: A Mile Underground
- Lewis and Clark's Worst Stretch: The Columbia Gorge Descent
- Lincoln City, Oregon
- Madras, Oregon
- Malheur National Forest: Strawberry Mountains and the Last Ponderosa Desert
- Mary D. Hume: Ninety-Seven Years at Sea
- Maryhill Stonehenge: A Millionaire's Memorial on the Columbia
- Maryhill: Sam Hill's Improbable Dream
- McKenzie River: The Lava That Made a River Run Clear
- Meacham: The Man Who Survived the Modoc War
- Mosier: Sawmills and Steamboats on the Gorge
- Mount Hood National Forest: The Forest Around the Postcard
- Multnomah Falls
- Multnomah Falls: Oregon's Tallest Drop
- Multnomah Falls: Six Hundred Twenty Feet and a Terminated Nation
- Multnomah Village
- Mulugeta Seraw and the Lawsuit That Bankrupted Hate
- Myrtle Creek: Named for the Groves
- New Pokegama
- Newberry Volcanic National Monument: Oregon's Other Volcano
- Newberry Volcano: Active Threat in the High Desert
- North Bonneville: The Town That Moved
- North Powder: Ice House of the Railroad Era
- Oakland: Turkey Capital of the World
- Ochoco National Forest: The High Desert Juniper Country Nobody Talks About
- Old Chief Joseph's Grave
- Old Mill District: From Ruin to Renewal
- Old Saint Peter's Landmark
- OMSI: Portland's Hands-On Science Museum
- Ontario, Oregon: Railroad Town and Basque Heartland
- Ontario, Oregon: The Town That Said Yes
- Ordnance, Oregon — The Ghost Town That Held America's Secrets
- Oregon Dunes: The Largest Coastal Dune System in North America
- Oregon Episcopal School: Nine Dead on Mount Hood
- Oregon Eugenics: Sixty Years of Authorized Sterilization
- Oregon's Black Exclusion Law: The Constitution's Buried Clause
- Patrol Torpedo Boat PT-658
- Pendleton Round-Up: Rodeo at the Edge of the Plateau
- Pendleton Round-Up: The Rodeo That Put a Town on the Map
- Pendleton: Wool, Rodeo, and the Umatilla Homeland
- Portland LGBTQ History: Pride 1974 and the OCA Years
- Powell's Books: The Store That Survived Amazon
- Reedsport, Oregon
- Riddle: The Only Nickel Smelter in America
- Rocky Butte: Volcano, Quarry, New Deal Fortress
- Rocky Butte: Volcano, WPA Fortress, and Jailhouse
- Rogue River: From Tailholt to Woodville to Here
- Rogue River: The First Wild and Scenic River in America
- Rome, Oregon: The Pillars That Named a Town
- Roseburg: The Blast of Nineteen Fifty-Nine
- Sacajawea, Pioneer Mother of Oregon
- Saint Francis de Sales Cathedral
- Sam Hill's Stonehenge on the Columbia
- Sam Hill's Stonehenge: The Wrong Sacrifice, the Right Memorial
- Sandy, Oregon: Gateway of the Barlow Road
- Shedd: The Town That Moved for the Railroad
- Shevlin Hixon and Brooks Scanlon: The Two Great Mills
- Siuslaw National Forest: The Coast Range Forest Between the Dunes and the River
- Smith Rock: Where American Sport Climbing Was Born
- Steve Prefontaine: Coos Bay's Runner and the Amateur Athlete as Political Actor
- Stumptown: The City Built on Clearcuts
- Sumpter Valley Railway
- Sutherlin: Camas Swale to Apple Country
- Tangent: Named for Twenty Miles of Straight Track
- The Apollo Moon Tree of Corvallis
- The Bandon Fire: A City Burns in Three Hours
- The Bluff School: University of Portland
- The Bonneville Dam and the End of Celilo Falls
- The Bridge of the Gods: Geology, Legend, Steel
- The Cascades Rapids
- The Chinook Nation: The Language Outlived the Recognition
- The Coin Flip That Named Portland
- The Columbia River Highway: An Engineer's Impossible Dream
- The Columbia River Treaty: Canada Paid for American Power
- The Deschutes People: Warm Springs and Northern Paiute
- The Glass Float Coast: Japanese Fishing Nets and Their Pacific Afterlife
- The Interstate Bridge: Linking Two States Since Nineteen Seventeen
- The John Day River
- The Modoc War and the Lava Beds
- The Oregon Dunes and the Book They Inspired
- The Pacific Crest Trail: Two Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Miles of Indigenous Territory
- The Queen of the Mines: Baker City's Geiser Grand
- The Rogue River War and the Winter March to Siletz
- The Salad Bar Plot: America's First Bioterror Attack
- The Salad-Bar Bioterror Plot
- The Steamer Gazelle Explosion
- The Tillamook Burn: Four Fires and Oregon's Schoolchildren
- Tillamook Air Museum: The World's Largest Wooden Building
- Tillamook: Cheese, Blimps, and the Largest Wooden Buildings in the World
- Timberline Lodge: Four Hundred Workers, One Political Bargain
- Timberline Lodge: What the WPA Built on a Volcano
- Troutdale: The Captain's Fish Ponds
- Tumalo, Oregon
- Umpqua National Forest: The River That Runs Toward Crater Lake
- Umpqua River Light: Oregon's First, Twice
- Unity Ranger Station
- USS Blueback, Last of the Diesel Submarines
- Vanport: The City That Disappeared in an Afternoon
- Vaux's Swifts at Chapman: The Twenty-Thousand-Bird Spiral
- Vista House: A Rest Stop Seven Hundred Feet Up
- Vista House: Silent Communion with the Infinite
- Wallowa-Whitman: The Nez Perce Homeland at the Heart of the Forest
- Wildhorse Resort: Tribal Sovereignty in Action
- Wildhorse: The Tribes Reclaim the Economy
- Willamette National Forest: The Middle of Everything Oregon
- Wishram: The Great Mart of the Columbia
- Yaquina Bay Light
- Yaquina Bay Light: Three Years and Done
- Yaquina Bay Lighthouse: Oregon's Oldest Building and the Gap in Its History
- Zigzag Ranger Station and the CCC on Mount Hood