Haunted Oregon

60 haunted destinations cataloged across Oregon, spanning 27 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, outdoor, and museum — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Main campus buildings near Building 12 at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, the 1968 campus opened on land donated by Wilfred Gonyea.
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Lane Community College

Eugene, OR

Lane Community College was authorized by Lane County voters in October 1964 following Oregon's 1959 community-college legislation, and held its first classes on September 20, 1965, at leased space on North Monroe Street in Eugene. The main East 30th Avenue campus opened in September 1968 on 105.81 acres donated by Eugene industrialist Wilfred Gonyea; satellite campuses followed in Florence, Cottage Grove, and downtown Eugene.

$ All Ages Family: High
Sign for the Newberg Graphic newspaper office in Newberg, Oregon
Other Dark Tourism Site

The Newberg Graphic

Newberg, OR

The Newberg Graphic was founded on December 1, 1888, by Hiatt & Hobson as a four-page weekly newspaper. It is one of Oregon's longest-running community papers. The paper has changed ownership several times, passing through Eagle Newspapers (1985), Pamplin Media Group (2013), and Carpenter Media Group (June 2024). It currently operates at 500 East Hancock Street.

$ All Ages Family: High
Brick exterior of Todd Hall, the 1912 first dormitory at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, named for Dean of Women Jessica Todd.
Haunted House / Historic Home

Todd Hall, Western Oregon University

Monmouth, OR

Todd Hall on the Western Oregon University campus in Monmouth, Oregon, was built in 1912 as the school's first dormitory. It is named for Jessica M. Todd, the first Dean of Women at what was then Oregon Normal School, who served the institution until her retirement in 1931. Today the Tudor-style building houses Behavioral Sciences, Modern Languages, and the Teaching Research Institute.

$ All Ages Family: High
Wolf Creek Inn historic 1883 stagecoach inn exterior, Wolf Creek, Oregon
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Wolf Creek Inn

Wolf Creek, OR

Wolf Creek Inn opened in 1883 as a refuge for stagecoach travelers on the Applegate Trail through the Siskiyou Mountains and is the oldest continuously operating inn in the Pacific Northwest. The State of Oregon acquired and restored the property between 1975 and 1979, and it now operates as Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site.

$$ All Ages Family: High
10-inch disappearing rifle gun emplacement at Battery Russell, Fort Stevens, Oregon, photographed during WWII service (c. 1942).
Battlefield / Military Site

Battery Russell at Fort Stevens

Hammond, OR

Battery Russell is one of nine concrete coastal-artillery emplacements built between 1897 and 1906 to defend the mouth of the Columbia River as part of Fort Stevens. Completed in 1904 and named for Civil War Brig. Gen. David A. Russell, the battery mounted two 10-inch M1888 'disappearing' rifles. It was decommissioned in 1944. On the night of June 21-22, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-25 surfaced offshore and fired roughly 17 shells in the direction of the fort — the first foreign attack on a mainland U.S. military installation since the War of 1812. The site is preserved within Fort Stevens State Park, Hammond, Oregon.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
11,600-square-foot Queen Anne Captain George Flavel House Museum (1885) at 441 8th Street in Astoria, Oregon.
Museum / Historical Site

Captain George Flavel House Museum

Astoria, OR

The Captain George Flavel House was completed in 1885 at 441 8th Street in Astoria as the retirement home of Captain George Flavel (1823-1893), a Columbia River bar pilot and early Oregon millionaire. Designed by German-born architect Carl W. Leick, the 11,600-square-foot Queen Anne mansion occupies a full city block and has been operated as a house museum by the Clatsop County Historical Society since 1951. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Portland — 15

The St. Johns Bridge is a steel suspension bridge that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Outdoor / Natural Site

Cathedral Park

Portland, OR

Cathedral Park in Portland's St. Johns neighborhood occupies the riverbank beneath the 1931 St. Johns Bridge, whose Gothic pointed arches gave both the park and its name their character. In August 1949, 15-year-old Thelma Taylor was abducted and murdered near this site. The land was acquired by the city in 1968 and formally opened as a public park on May 3, 1980.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Portland, Oregon
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Wilcox Mansion (Former KWJJ Radio)

Portland, OR

The Wilcox Mansion at 931 SW King Avenue in Portland was built in 1893 for Theodore B. Wilcox, a flour and banking magnate, by the prominent Portland architecture firm Whidden & Lewis. The 12,882-square-foot Victorian structure served as the Wilcox family residence until mid-century, housed a Soviet purchasing mission during World War II and a music conservatory afterward, then became the home of country radio station KWJJ from 1957 to 1997.

$ All Ages Family: High
Open Graph image from www.lclark.edu
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Lewis & Clark College

Portland, OR

Lewis & Clark College was founded as Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867 in Albany, Oregon and relocated to Portland beginning in 1934. The college's current campus was established in 1942 on the former Lloyd and Edna Levy Frank Fir Acres estate in southwest Portland, a forested ridgeline property southwest of the city.

$ All Ages Family: High
The 1914 French Renaissance-style Pittock Mansion overlooking Portland, Oregon
Haunted House / Historic Home

Pittock Mansion

Portland, OR

Pittock Mansion is a 1914 French Renaissance chateau in Portland, Oregon, built for newspaper publisher Henry Pittock and his wife Georgiana Burton Pittock. Now owned by the City of Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation, the 46-room sandstone estate operates as a historic house museum and city overlook.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Portland's Shanghai Tunnels, a network of brick-arched basement passages beneath Old Town Chinatown
Outdoor / Natural Site

Portland's Shanghai Tunnels

Portland, OR

Portland's Shanghai Tunnels are a network of interconnected basements and brick-arched passages beneath Old Town Chinatown, originally built to move goods between waterfront docks and merchant cellars during the late nineteenth century. The 'shanghaiing' narrative was popularized in 1933 by Stewart Holbrook in Sunday Oregonian articles.

$$ All Ages (some tours 21+) Family: Moderate
The Benson Hotel exterior, 1913 French Second Empire hotel on SW Broadway in downtown Portland, Oregon
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Benson Hotel

Portland, OR

Norwegian immigrant Simon Benson — Portland lumber baron, philanthropist, and donor of the city's iconic Benson Bubblers drinking fountains — opened the 14-story French Second Empire hotel at SW Broadway and Oak on March 4, 1913, timed to coincide with President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Designed by Portland firm Doyle, Patterson & Beach, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
The Heathman Hotel exterior on SW Broadway in downtown Portland, Oregon
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Heathman Hotel

Portland, OR

George Heathman built the 10-story New Heathman Hotel in 1927 at SW Broadway and Salmon on what was then Portland's 'Great White Way' entertainment corridor. Designed by Portland firm DeYoung & Roald in the Jacobean Revival style, the concrete-and-brick structure was Portland's largest construction project to date and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Hotel deLuxe exterior, formerly the Mallory Hotel, in Portland's Goose Hollow neighborhood
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel deLuxe

Portland, OR

Portland lawyer and former U.S. Congressman Rufus Mallory commissioned the Classical Revival-style hotel, which opened in 1912 as the Mallory Hotel. Mallory died in 1914, leaving his wife — author, publisher, and prominent spiritualist Lucy A. Rose Mallory — as sole owner until her death in 1920. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and reopened as Hotel deLuxe the same year.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of McMenamins Kennedy School in the Concordia neighborhood of Portland
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Museum / Historical Site

McMenamins Kennedy School

Portland, OR

Kennedy School opened as a Portland Public Schools elementary in 1915 on land sold by John Daniel Kennedy to the district in 1913, serving the Concordia neighborhood. The school operated until 1975 and stood vacant before McMenamins purchased and renovated it in 1997 into a hotel, restaurant, brewpub, theater, soaking pool, and event venue.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Headstones beneath mature trees at Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery, Portland
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery

Portland, OR

The cemetery began with the 1846 burial of pioneer Emmor Stephens on a family farm in what is now southeast Portland. In 1854 Colburn Barrell bought the land and dedicated 10 acres as 'Mount Crawford,' named after his business partner Crawford Dobbins, who died with 23 others when the steamboat Gazelle exploded at Canemah that April. Later renamed Lone Fir, the 30-acre site holds about 25,000 burials including 16 Portland mayors and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It is now operated by Metro.

$ All Ages Family: High
Multnomah Hotel / Embassy Suites Portland Downtown, 1912 American Renaissance hotel filling a city block in downtown Portland
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Multnomah Hotel (Embassy Suites Portland Downtown)

Portland, OR

Local entrepreneur Philip Gevurtz opened the nine-story, 700-room Multnomah Hotel on February 8, 1912, filling an entire downtown city block. Designed by Gibson & Cahill in the American Renaissance style, it hosted nine U.S. presidents and Pacific Coast luminaries before closing in 1965. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and reopened in 1997 as the Embassy Suites Portland Downtown after extensive renovation.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of Old Town Pizza in Portland's Old Town/Chinatown district
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Old Town Pizza & Brewing

Portland, OR

The building dates to roughly 1880 and originally housed the Merchant Hotel, one of Portland's oldest surviving commercial structures in the Old Town/Chinatown district. Old Town Pizza opened in the former lobby in 1974 under the Accuardi family and now operates as Old Town Pizza & Brewing. The pizzeria sits directly above sections of the Portland Underground, commonly known as the Shanghai Tunnels.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Roseland Theater marquee at 8 NW 6th Avenue, Old Town Chinatown, Portland
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Theater / Performance Venue

Roseland Theater

Portland, OR

The Apostolic Faith Church built the structure at 8 NW Sixth Avenue in 1922 with a 200-seat downstairs chapel and a 1,150-capacity upstairs meeting hall, constructed entirely with donated labor. The building was converted by Larry Hurwitz to the Starry Night nightclub in 1982; after Hurwitz's involvement in the 1990 murder of promoter Tim Moreau, the venue was sold and renamed Roseland Theater in 1991, with a $2.5 million renovation completed by 1997 expanding capacity to 1,400.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Exterior of the White Eagle Saloon at 836 N Russell Street, Portland
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Haunted Dining / Bar

White Eagle Saloon & Hotel

Portland, OR

The building at 836 N Russell Street was constructed in 1899, with the saloon opened in 1905 by Polish immigrants Bronislaw 'Barney' Soboleski and William Hryszko, who named it for the white eagle on the Polish flag. It served as a rough-and-tumble working-class bar with rooms upstairs and was nicknamed the 'Bucket of Blood.' McMenamins purchased and rehabilitated the property in 1997, and it now operates as a bar and hotel.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Moss-covered stone walls of the Macleay Park Shelter (Witch's Castle) in Portland's Forest Park
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Witch's Castle (Stone House, Macleay Park Shelter)

Portland, OR

The stone ruin is the Macleay Park Shelter, designed by Portland architect Ernest F. Tucker and built in the mid-1930s as a public restroom and storage building for what was then Macleay Park, on land donated to the city by Donald Macleay in 1897. The water line was destroyed in the 1962 Columbus Day Storm and the structure was abandoned to weather and moss. The site sits on land originally claimed by 1850s settler Danford Balch.

$ All Ages Family: High

Salem — 7

Asahel Bush House Museum 1878 Italianate mansion in Salem Oregon
Museum / Historical Site

Bush House

Salem, OR

Bush House, built in 1878, is a historic estate in Salem, Oregon. Asahel Bush, founding editor of the Oregon Statesman (1851-1863) and co-founder of Ladd & Bush Bank (1868), constructed the mansion. Since 1953, the house has operated as a museum operated by the Salem Art Association.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Lausanne Hall, the 1920 brick dormitory on the Willamette University campus in Salem, Oregon, viewed from the front and north side
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Lausanne Hall

Salem, OR

Lausanne Hall, built in 1920, is the oldest residential building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. The three-story red-brick dormitory on the western edge of campus originally housed women exclusively and can accommodate up to 152 students. It stands as one of the more architecturally intact examples of early 20th-century collegiate construction in the Pacific Northwest.

$ All Ages Family: High
The Mission Mill (Thomas Kay Woolen Mill) building at the Willamette Heritage Center campus in Salem, Oregon
Museum / Historical Site

Willamette Heritage Center (Mission Mill)

Salem, OR

The Willamette Heritage Center in Salem encompasses the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill (1889), the oldest standing timber-frame structure in Oregon, and fourteen historic buildings including the Jason Lee House (1841), the oldest single-family home in the Salem area. The site was created in 2010 through the merger of the Mission Mill Museum and the Marion County Historical Society.

$$ All Ages Family: High
West facade of the original Kirkbride J Building at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon — 1883 psychiatric hospital
Museum / Historical Site

Oregon State Hospital

Salem, OR

Oregon State Hospital opened in Salem in 1883 and is the oldest operating psychiatric hospital in Oregon. The original Kirkbride Building, designed on Thomas Story Kirkbride's reform-era plan, served as the primary filming location for the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The center of the Kirkbride Building was preserved during the 2008-onward redevelopment and now houses the Museum of Mental Health.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Tudor Gothic facade of the Elsinore Theatre (1926) on High Street SE in downtown Salem, Oregon.
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Theater / Performance Venue

Elsinore Theatre

Salem, OR

The Elsinore Theatre opened May 28, 1926 as a 1,290-seat silent-film and vaudeville house built for Salem businessman George Guthrie. Designed by Ellis F. Lawrence of the Portland firm Lawrence & Holford in Tudor Gothic style — patterned after Hamlet's Elsinore Castle — it was hailed at opening as the largest and most lavish theater between Portland and San Francisco. After a 1989 sale to Act III Theatres and a community-led purchase by the Save the Elsinore Committee in 1990, it operates today as a nonprofit performing-arts venue. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1994.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Art Deco / Stripped Classical facade of the Oregon State Capitol (1938) in Salem, with the gilt-bronze Oregon Pioneer statue atop the cupola.
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Museum / Historical Site

Oregon State Capitol

Salem, OR

The Oregon State Capitol is the third capitol building on the site, completed June 18, 1938 in an Art Deco / Stripped Classical design by Trowbridge & Livingston with Francis Keally. It replaced the second capitol — destroyed in the April 25, 1935 fire that killed volunteer firefighter and Willamette University student Floyd McMullen — and is one of only three U.S. state capitols built in this style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 1988 and houses the state legislature, governor, secretary of state, and treasurer.

$ All Ages Family: High
Romanesque Revival facade of Salem's Historic Grand Theatre (1900) on High Street NE in downtown Salem, Oregon.
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Theater / Performance Venue

Salem's Historic Grand Theatre

Salem, OR

Salem's Historic Grand Theatre — officially the Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Odd Fellows Buildings — was built in 1900 as a lodge hall and opera house by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, designed by Pugh & Gray in Romanesque Revival style. It opened November 29, 1900 with the Julius Grau Opera Company and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The 402-seat venue (288 main floor, 114 balcony) is now operated by To The Ceiling Entertainment as a multi-use performing-arts venue and hosts the seasonal 'Ghosts of the Grand' haunted attraction.

$$ 16+ Family: Low

Astoria — 5

Five-story Hotel Elliott (1924) at 357 12th Street in downtown Astoria, Oregon, rebuilt after the Great Astoria Fire.
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Elliott

Astoria, OR

Hotel Elliott opened in 1924 at 357 12th Street as one of the first major rebuilt structures after the Great Astoria Fire of 1922, originally named Hotel Niemi before local entrepreneur Jeremiah Elliott took over and gave it his name. The hotel operated continuously through the 20th century, falling into decline before a 1999-2003 renovation by new ownership reopened the building with 32 rooms and 11 suites. It is among downtown Astoria's longest-standing hotels.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Italian Renaissance facade of the Liberty Theatre (1925), the first major theater rebuilt after the 1922 Astoria fire.
Theater / Performance Venue

Liberty Theatre

Astoria, OR

The Liberty Theatre opened in April 1925 as the first major theater rebuilt after the Great Astoria Fire of 1922 destroyed downtown. Designed by Portland firm Bennes and Herzog in Italian Renaissance style for theater operators Claude Jensen and John von Herberg, it served as a 1,300-seat vaudeville and motion-picture palace and now operates as a nonprofit performing-arts venue. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Restored brick facade of the Norblad Hotel on 14th Street in downtown Astoria, Oregon
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Norblad Hotel

Astoria, OR

The Norblad Hotel opened in January 1924 at 443 14th Street and is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Astoria. Designed by architect John E. Wicks and named for George F. Norblad, it originally housed a bank on the ground floor and a hotel above. Restored in 2007 by Paul Caruana and partners, it now operates as a boutique hotel and is rumored to connect via the basement to Astoria's underground tunnel network.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Pier 39 cannery building extending over the Columbia River at the foot of 39th Street, Astoria, Oregon
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Museum / Historical Site

Pier 39 / Hanthorn Cannery Museum

Astoria, OR

Pier 39 is the oldest surviving cannery pier on the Columbia River. Opened in 1875 by tinsmith-turned-cannery-operator J.O. Hanthorn, the Hanthorn Cannery operated continuously through the late-19th-century salmon boom and was later absorbed into the Bumble Bee Seafoods operation. Today the 150-year-old, 84,800-square-foot pier complex houses the Hanthorn Cannery Museum, Rogue Pier 39 Public House, Coffee Girl coffee shop, the Vineside wine bar, the Fisherman's Suites lodging, and artist studios.

$ All Ages Family: High
Brick-walled subterranean passage on the Astoria Underground Tour beneath downtown Astoria, Oregon
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Astoria Underground (Shanghai Tunnels)

Astoria, OR

Astoria's downtown sits atop a network of subterranean voids, basements, and reinforced passages that originated in the late 19th century as practical infrastructure (basement-to-basement passages, smuggling chambers, opium dens) and acquired enduring association with the city's shanghaiing era. The Old Astoria Underground Tour operates rehabilitated sections of the network as a guided historical tour from 1125 Marine Drive. The tunnel network itself has no single street address; the tour starting point on Marine Drive is the documented public access point.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Klamath Falls — 2

County Court House. American Legion Headquarters. Klamath Post Number Eight. Main office of Southern Oregon Northern California project occupied one quarter of the first floor of this building, just right of the entrance. 316 Main Street, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Note: "This Klamath County courthouse
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Theater / Performance Venue

Linkville Playhouse

Klamath Falls, OR

The Linkville Players are the oldest community theater group in the Klamath Basin, tracing their history through predecessor organizations including the Pelican Players and Klamath Civic Theatre. The current playhouse at 201 Main Street in Klamath Falls has been the organization's home since the mid-1980s. The organization has presented amateur theatrical productions for the region for more than 50 years.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of Mazama High School in Klamath Falls, Oregon, home of the Vikings
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Mazama High School Football Field

Klamath Falls, OR

Mazama High School in Klamath Falls, Oregon is an active public high school operated by the Klamath County School District, serving approximately 692 students in grades 9-12 as of 2024. The school's mascot is the Viking.

$ All Ages Family: High

La Grande — 2

Candy Cane Park (locally nicknamed Hatchet Park) in La Grande, Oregon, a community park in Union County
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Candy Cane Park (Hatchet Park)

La Grande, OR

Candy Cane Park is a small municipal park in central La Grande, Oregon. In the early hours of February 12, 1983, the body of 21-year-old bartender Dana DuMars was found in the park; she had been attacked with a hatchet and died of her injuries later that day. A suspect was tried and convicted but the conviction was overturned on appeal due to interrogation and evidence issues; the case remains officially unsolved.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Historic 1920s photograph of the Hot Lake Hotel and Sanitarium near La Grande, Oregon
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hot Lake Springs Resort

La Grande, OR

The Hot Lake Hotel traces its origins to 1864, when Samuel Fitzgerald Newhart constructed the first building at the natural hot springs southeast of La Grande, Oregon. Architect John V. Bennes designed the landmark 65,000-square-foot Colonial Revival brick addition, completed in 1906. The resort became one of the Pacific Northwest's leading destinations, billed as the Mayo Clinic of the West under Dr. W.T. Phy's medical management after 1917. A 1934 fire destroyed the wooden west wing; the brick structure survived. After decades of abandonment following the facility's 1991 closure, restoration began in 2003. New owners took over in 2020 and have continued restoration, operating the property today as The Lodge at Hot Lake Springs.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Tigard — 2

Hilltop Sunset Pioneer Cemetery off Canterbury Lane in Tigard, Oregon, dating to the 1886 Emanuel German Evangelical Church congregation
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Sunset Pioneer Cemetery (Canterbury Hill)

Tigard, OR

Sunset Pioneer Cemetery in Tigard, Oregon, sits on the small hill above Canterbury Lane and dates to the 1886 founding of the Emanuel German Evangelical Church. Many headstones bear German inscriptions reflecting the early settlers who built the church on what was then a dirt road that became Highway 99.

$ All Ages Family: High
Paved Fanno Creek Trail running along Fanno Creek in Tigard, Oregon
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Fanno Creek Trail

Tigard, OR

The Fanno Creek Trail is an 8.3-mile paved regional trail along Fanno Creek through Tigard, Beaverton, and Washington County, Oregon. The creek and trail are named for Augustus Fanno, a Missouri-born pioneer who established a 1847 donation land claim along the creek and was known as the 'Onion King' for his agricultural production.

$ All Ages Family: High

Adair Village — 1

Aerial view of former Camp Adair hospital unit, now forest land in Benton County, Oregon
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Battlefield / Military Site

Camp Adair POW Hospital Site

Adair Village, OR

Camp Adair was a 57,159-acre U.S. Army training cantonment rapidly constructed near Corvallis, Oregon, following Pearl Harbor. Formally dedicated September 6, 1943, the base housed up to 40,000 personnel — enough to make it Oregon's second-largest city. From August 1944 to July 1946, German and Italian prisoners of war were detained there, providing agricultural labor in the surrounding Willamette Valley. After the war the land was absorbed into Oregon State University research forests and the Oregon Department of Forestry, with Adair Village incorporated around surviving community structures.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Ashland — 1

Open Graph image from ashlandoregon.gov
Outdoor / Natural Site

Lithia Park

Ashland, OR

Lithia Park began as an 8-acre city reserve in 1892 and was formally dedicated over the Independence Day holiday, July 4-6, 1916, after landscape architect John McLaren — superintendent of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park — developed its master plan. The park expanded to 93 acres along Ashland Creek and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

$ All Ages Family: High

Burns — 1

Single-story former restaurant facade on W Monroe Street in Burns, Oregon
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Ye Olde Castle Restaurant (Closed)

Burns, OR

Ye Olde Castle Restaurant operated at 186 W Monroe Street in Burns, Oregon, as a combined steakhouse and antique emporium. The structure was built as a private home in the early nineteenth century and converted to its restaurant role in the late twentieth century. The restaurant has since closed.

$ All Ages Family: High

Canby — 1

Historic Baker Prairie Cemetery on Knights Bridge Road in Canby, Clackamas County, Oregon
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Historic Baker Prairie Cemetery

Canby, OR

Historic Baker Prairie Cemetery is a pioneer-era burial ground in Canby, Clackamas County, Oregon, located on Knights Bridge Road. It is one of several historic cemeteries serving the Baker Prairie settlement area and is now maintained by the City of Canby as a public historic site documenting the region's early settlers.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cannon Beach — 1

Wooded approach road off Highway 101 leading to Cannon Beach, Oregon, setting of the Bandage Man legend
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Bandage Man of Cannon Beach

Cannon Beach, OR

The Bandage Man is a long-running Oregon coast urban legend tied to the approach road connecting U.S. Highway 101 to the town of Cannon Beach in Clatsop County. The highway alignment in this area was rerouted over the decades; the legend is usually attached to the older, wooded 'short approach' rather than the modern straightened road. There is no built structure central to the story — the 'venue' is the roadway and the surrounding coastal woods. The tale has been recounted in regional folklore collections and Oregon ghost-tour material since at least the mid-twentieth century.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cottage Grove — 1

Mt. David bluff on the western edge of Cottage Grove, Oregon, with McFarland Cemetery at its base
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Mt. David

Cottage Grove, OR

Mt. David is an 881-foot bluff on the western edge of Cottage Grove, Oregon. The Kalapuya people held the hill as sacred ground, associating its rock outcroppings with the birthplace of the culture hero Le-lu. John McFarland claimed the land in 1850 under the Oregon Donation Land Act, and the McFarland family cemetery at the hill's base contains burials from 1863 through 2012.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Deer Island — 1

St. Helens / Deer Island / Columbia City, Oregon
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Kinder Cemetery

Deer Island, OR

Kinder Cemetery is a small rural burial ground in Columbia County, Oregon, located on the north side of Highway 30 in the Deer Island area between St. Helens and Rainier. The cemetery sits in the Columbia River Highway corridor, a region settled in the 19th century as part of Oregon's agricultural development along the lower Columbia River.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Echo — 1

The historic Echo Community Church (historically Echo Methodist Church, built 1886), located at 21 North Bonanza Street in Echo, Oregon, United States, is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Hi
Outdoor / Natural Site

Echo, Oregon

Echo, OR

Echo, Oregon sits at the historic crossroads of Indian trails and the Oregon Trail on the Umatilla River. In 1847, an emigrant party crossed here and opened the Columbia Plateau Route, which became the primary path of the Oregon Trail. The town was platted in 1880 by James H. Koontz, named for his three-year-old daughter, and incorporated in 1904. Ten of its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: High

Elgin — 1

Elgin Opera House historic exterior, Elgin Oregon
Theater / Performance Venue

Elgin Opera House

Elgin, OR

The Elgin Opera House was completed in 1912 as a dual-purpose Colonial Revival building housing the city government and a 400-seat theater. Walter M. Pierce, later governor of Oregon, delivered the dedication address on July 4, 1912. The opera house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Forest Grove — 1

McMenamins Grand Lodge historic hotel exterior in Forest Grove, Oregon
Haunted Hotel / Inn

McMenamins Grand Lodge

Forest Grove, OR

McMenamins Grand Lodge opened in 1922 as the Masonic and Eastern Star Home, a retirement community for aging members of the Freemason fraternal order. It served 'poor, sick, and elderly' Master Masons and their families for approximately 80 years before new facilities were built in 1999. McMenamins, a family-owned Oregon hospitality company specializing in historic building renovation, acquired the property in 1999.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Gales Creek — 1

Coffee Creek
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Agaard Road

Gales Creek, OR

Agaard Road is located on Highway 6 heading toward Tillamook from Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon. The road crosses a creek and passes an abandoned residential property. The area has a dark history involving at least one death.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Gold Hill — 1

Pioneer-era headstones at Rock Point Cemetery near Gold Hill in Jackson County, Oregon
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Rock Point Cemetery

Gold Hill, OR

Rock Point Cemetery is a pioneer burial ground in Gold Hill, Jackson County, Oregon, established in the 1860s on land donated by the White family near their stagecoach stop. It holds more than 1,000 graves across a maintained IOOF section and an overgrown Pioneer section. Though the town of Rock Point has long vanished, the cemetery remains a significant repository of southern Oregon pioneer history.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Hood River — 1

Columbia Gorge Hotel historic 1920 hotel above the Columbia River in Hood River Oregon
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Columbia Gorge Hotel

Hood River, OR

Simon Benson, a Portland lumber magnate and notable philanthropist, built the Columbia Gorge Hotel in 1920 at the edge of a dramatic cliff overlooking the Columbia River in Hood River, Oregon. The hotel hosted presidents and celebrities during the Jazz Age and operated continuously through several ownership changes. It served as a retirement home for a period in the mid-20th century before returning to hotel use.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Jacksonville — 1

McCully House historic 1860 Gothic Revival home at 240 East California Street, Jacksonville, Oregon (HABS 1971)
Haunted Hotel / Inn

McCully House Inn

Jacksonville, OR

McCully House was built in 1860 by Dr. John McCully, Jacksonville's first physician, and his wife Jane. In 1862, after losing his money in gold mining, John abandoned the family, leaving Jane with three young children and substantial debt. Jane McCully proved exceptionally resourceful — first baking for the mining community, then opening Mrs. McCully's Seminary in June 1862, Jacksonville's first school for girls. The inn is the oldest home in Oregon currently operating as an inn and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Lafayette — 1

Historic headstones at Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery in Yamhill County, Oregon, focal point of the Lafayette curse legend
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery

Lafayette, OR

Lafayette, Oregon was an early Yamhill County seat whose pioneer cemetery dates to the mid-1800s. The town's 'curse' legend traces to a documented event: the November 1, 1886 ax murder of storekeeper David Corker and the November 11, 1887 hanging of convicted killer Richard Marple, during which his mother Anna reportedly cursed the town. Lafayette subsequently lost the county seat to McMinnville and suffered repeated fires.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Mount Hood National Forest — 1

Little Crater Lake, brilliant blue artesian spring-fed lake in Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon
Outdoor / Natural Site

Little Crater Lake

Mount Hood National Forest, OR

Little Crater Lake is a spring-fed pond in the Mount Hood National Forest in Clackamas County, Oregon, created by artesian water forcing through soft volcanic rock along a fault line. The water maintains a constant 33-34°F year-round and reaches a depth of 45 feet, with visibility to the bottom due to the suppression of algae growth at that temperature. No swimming is permitted.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Newport — 1

White wooden Yaquina Bay Lighthouse with attached keeper's quarters in Newport Oregon
Museum / Historical Site

Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

Newport, OR

Yaquina Bay Lighthouse was lit on November 3, 1871 on the north shore of Yaquina Bay near Newport, Oregon. It served as an active navigational aid for only three years before being decommissioned in October 1874 after the larger Yaquina Head Light came online. The structure is the only surviving wooden lighthouse in Oregon and the only U.S. lighthouse with its original keeper's quarters still attached.

$ All Ages Family: High

Oregon City — 1

Historic American Buildings Survey 1934 photograph of the 1846 John McLoughlin House in Oregon City, Oregon, a National Historic Site
Haunted House / Historic Home

McLoughlin House

Oregon City, OR

The McLoughlin House at 713 Center Street in Oregon City was built by Dr. John McLoughlin in 1846 following his retirement as chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia District. McLoughlin had governed the Pacific Northwest fur trade from Fort Vancouver since 1824, and his policy of providing supplies and assistance to American settlers made him a central figure in the Oregon Territory's transition to American governance. He founded Oregon City and is commemorated as 'the Father of Oregon.' McLoughlin died in his house in 1857; the building opened as a museum in 1910 and is operated by the McLoughlin Memorial Association.

$ All Ages Family: High

Redmond — 1

The historic 1928 New Redmond Hotel facade on 6th Street in Redmond, Oregon
Haunted Hotel / Inn

SCP Hotel Redmond (New Redmond Hotel)

Redmond, OR

The original Redmond Hotel was built in 1906 by William and Fanny Wilson. After it burned in June 1927, construction on the New Redmond Hotel began immediately, with grand opening in July 1928. The building's Georgian architecture earned it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places in October 1980. The hotel closed in 2004, sat vacant until 2017, underwent a $7 million renovation, and reopened as SCP Hotel Redmond in December 2019.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Troutdale — 1

The historic main lodge of McMenamins Edgefield, the former 1911 Multnomah County Poor Farm in Troutdale, Oregon
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

McMenamins Edgefield

Troutdale, OR

McMenamins Edgefield occupies the former Multnomah County Poor Farm, built in 1911 in Troutdale, Oregon to shelter the county's destitute. It grew to 345 acres and a peak population of 614 residents during the Depression, later operating as Edgefield Manor nursing home until 1982. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, it was restored by the McMenamins brothers into a hotel, winery, and entertainment complex.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Yachats — 1

Heceta Head Lighthouse perched on a coastal headland at sunset on the Oregon coast
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Heceta Head Lighthouse

Yachats, OR

Heceta Head Lighthouse at 92072 US-101 South was completed in 1894, lit on March 30 of that year, and has operated continuously since as a critical navigation aid on the central Oregon Coast. The keeper's cottage — the assistant lightkeeper's quarters, dating to the same period — is one of the last intact examples of its type on the Pacific Coast and has operated as a bed and breakfast since 1994. The lighthouse is administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.

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