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.

With depths of 1,932 feet, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States. This extinct volcano caldera is known for its stunning, sapphire blue color, and is the main attraction in Oregon's only national park.

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.