Timberline Lodge is a ski resort on Mount Hood, Oregon that was build in 1937 by the US

government in order to provide jobs.

The Painted Hills in the eastern Oregon near the town of John Day are made of sedimentary rock colored by many different minerals.

Painted Hills is in a semi-arid climate that creates bare hills subject to wind erosion in this chapparal

biome.

This blue colored canyon of sedimentary rock contains many Ice Age fossils like the sabre tooth tiger and is named Blue

Basin.

This beautiful blue lake, Crater Lake, was formed in the remnants of the explosion of Mount Mazama, and ancient volcano.

The Wallawa Mountains in northeastern Oregon are granite, uplift mountains containing many beautiful lakes.

Timberline Lodge is located on the slopes of the volcano named Mt Hood or W’east as the mountain is known to native Americans.

The wind in southern Oregon has eroded the hills into interesting shapes that gave these hills the

name of The Pillars of Rome.

From a distance The Pillars of Rome look like the ruins of an ancient city.

Smith Rocks in central Oregon are one of the most popular climbing areas in

the USA

On the western side of Oregon is the Pacific Ocean where you can have fun on all the

beaches and enjoy wonderful sunsets.

Fort Rock in south central Oregon is the remnant of a volcano that exploded in the

middle of a lake.

The Three Sisters are part of a series of volcanoes that for the Cascade Mountains dividing Oregon from the

north to the south into a variety of biomes.

The Oregon Cave is a small limestone cave in southwest Oregon that is filled with fantastically

shaped formations.

Hot and cold are represented by the glaciers clinging to the sides of the Cascade volcanos and the ancient lava flow on the lower left of the mountains.

Kieger Gorge is a huge half-pipe shaped valley carved out of a plateau by glaciers during the Ice Age.

Steen’s Mountain is the results of plate tectonics which lifted up this plateau in southeastern Oregon to create this escarpment. On this side of the mountain is the Alvord Desert, but on the other is a chaparral biome

The Columbia River is the largest river in the western USA and this gorge was carved out by

the Missula Floods 75,000 years ago.