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.

Tucked in Oregon's southwest corner near the town of Cave Junction, the 488-acre Oregon Caves National Monument features a marble cavern system decorated with natural mineral sculptures including helicites, draperies, and soda straws.

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.