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Crown Point is a basalt promontory on the Columbia River Gorge and an associated state park in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located in eastern Multnomah County, approximately 15 miles east of Portland. Vista House is a museum.

This home on the west side of Portland has at least five giant old Japanese Maples.

Captured in the Hoyt Arboretum in Portland's Washington Park

Latourell Falls is a waterfall along the Columbia River Gorge in the U.S. state of Oregon, within Guy W. Talbot State Park. The Historic Columbia River Highway passes nearby, and at certain locations the Lower falls are visible from the road. Latourell is unique among the best-known Columbia Gorge waterfalls, in the way that it drops straight down from an overhanging basalt cliff. Most of those falls (even the famous Multnomah Falls) tumble to some degree. Latourell Falls is an excellent example of columnar basalt formations.

A very unusual cold wet spring left the walkways buried under 6-8 feet of snow. Captured near the rim village.

Mount Thielsen, or Big Cowhorn, is an extinct shield volcano in the Oregon High Cascades, near Mount Bailey. Because eruptive activity ceased 250,000 years ago, glaciers have heavily eroded the volcano's structure, creating precipitous slopes and a horn-like peak.

Crater Lake gets so much snow that I am standing atop 6-8 feet of it covering the view point at the Rim Village.

Siletz Bay vista point, Oregon

The rugged Oregon coastline at Rocky Creek State Park.