OREGON

Salem
44.9385°n,123.0305°w

THREE MAJOR CITIES OF OREGON

PORTLAND

EUGENE

SALEM

THREE PLACES TO VISIT IN OREGON

PORTLAND

• Portland was named on a coin toss.
• Portland is one of two states in the u.s. to have a dormant volcano within city limits.
• The International Rose Test Garden has over 500 types of roses.

EUGENE

• Eugene is the birth place of Nike.
• Eugene is the only place in Oregon where you don’t have taxes.
• Pre’s Rock-memorial to distance runner Steve Prefontaine.

SALEM

• Salem has a population of 150,873 making it one of the largest cities in Oregon.
• Herbert Hoover spent three years in Salem working as an office boy for his uncle’s land settlement company.
• Nearly 0.1% of American ancestors live in Salem oregon.

FIVE GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF OREGON.

OREGON COAST.

• There are two Oregon Coast haystack rocks.
• Seaside-the end of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• West Coast game park-it’s America’s largest wild animal petting park.

CASCADE RANGE.

• They are 700 miles north of Lassen Peak.
• The elevation of the cascade range is 14,411 feet tall.
• And the age of rock it is Pliocene.

COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE.

• The Columbia River gorge is 1243 miles long.
• The Columbia River is 1 mile wide.
• There is 75 gorge waterfalls.

BLUE-WALLOWA MOUNTAINS.

• The blue Wallowa mountian is 9838 feet tall.
• They are also 4418 feet wide.
• The peak is called Sacajawea Peak.

KLAMATH MOUNTAINS.

• The Klamath Mountains are 9025 feet tall.
• The Klamath Mountains peak is called mount eddy.
• The Klamath Mountains are 181 km wide.

FOUR REASONS WHY I CHOSE OREGON.

• Because I had no idea on a place so I just went with the first thing that came to mind.
• Because I like the Oregon Trail.
• Because I like oregon and want to go there.
• Because lots of pioneers grew up in Oregon.