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Places worth the detour in Oregon

Detourmap lists 187 places in Oregon, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Crater Lake. 164 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature138 Archaeological49
Places
187
Oldest
Champoeg 1830
Little known
164 of 187
Share of United States
5%

Oregon 187

The 120 best known of 187. The other 67 are on the map and on the United States pages.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104 Hawaii86

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Oregon?

Crater Lake. Caldera lake in south-central Oregon and main feature of Crater Lake National Park. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Oregon?

187: 138 nature & landscapes and 49 archaeological & historic sites. 164 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Oregon?

Champoeg, dated to 1830. 17 of the 187 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Oregon here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Oregon if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Oregon is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.