Every Lake
Oregon
A wall of volcanoes down the middle: wet forest on one side, high desert on the other.
Oregon in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Oregon.
About Oregon
Oregon's northern border is the Columbia River, which cuts the only sea-level gap through the Cascade Range — the reason Portland sits where it does. That range divides the state absolutely: the Willamette Valley and the Coast Range to the west catch the rain, while everything east is high desert, sagebrush and the Blue Mountains. The volcanoes stand in a line, Hood, Jefferson, the Three Sisters, and Mount Mazama's collapsed caldera holds Crater Lake at 1,943 feet, the deepest lake in the United States. Thirty-six counties, huge in the east, small in the valley.
Oregon entered on February 14, 1859 as the 33rd state, at the end of the wagon trail that carried settlers 2,000 miles from Missouri. Salem, in the heart of the Willamette Valley farmland the trail was aiming at, was made the capital in 1851. The board is a road-trip map: US-101 runs a coastline that is public beach for its entire 363 miles by state law, the Historic Columbia River Highway climbs past Multnomah Falls, and I-5 runs the valley.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 6 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
