Located between the Siskiyou Mountains and the Cascades, the city of Ashland is a cultural and recreational mecca in southern Oregon. Home to the acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, this small city has also been named one of the country's top 10 towns in which to buy art.

The Cascade Range, which runs north-south from Northern California to Canada, is known for its massive, snow-capped mountains and the rich temperate rainforests on their western flanks.

Sleepy Klamath Falls sits on the southern shore of Upper Klamath Lake on the eastern slopes of the Cascades. "K Falls" has long been known as the crossroads of southern Oregon, and is noted primarily for its striking setting, the outdoors paradise that encircles the town.

The Rogue River roams 215 miles across southwestern Oregon from its headwaters at Boundary Springs, just inside Crater Lake National Park, to where it spills into the Pacific near the town of Gold Beach. Along the way, the river traverses diverse landscape including pumice flats, pine forests, deep gorges, farmlands, and orchards.

"Umpqua" means "thundering water" in the Chinook language, and the Wild and Scenic North Umpqua River certainly can thunder. The river is renowned for both fishing and floating.