Sandy Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — One of only four remaining covered bridges in Missouri — built in 1872 using the Howe […]
Osage Village State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Archaeological site of a major Osage Nation village occupied from the 1600s to 1700s — the
Nathan and Olive Boone Homestead State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Home of Nathan Boone — son of legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone! Nathan was a U.S. Army
Morris State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Small park in the Missouri Bootheel — part of the unique Mississippi alluvial plain region, one
Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — The tiny cabin where Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 — he would
Jewell Cemetery State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Historic African American cemetery in Columbia — final resting place for enslaved and free Black Missourians
Iliniwek Village State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Archaeological site of a 17th-century Illinois (Illiniwek) Confederation village — the Kaskaskia and Peoria peoples lived
Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Grand 1860 antebellum home in New Madrid — built by merchant William Hunter in the “Bootheel”
Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — The tiny 6-room house in Lamar where Harry S Truman was born on May 8, 1884
Governor Daniel Dunklin’s Grave State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Gravesite of Missouri’s 5th governor (1832-1836) — Daniel Dunklin championed education reform and supported the rights
Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site
🏆 Official Guide: Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site — The restored boyhood home of “Black Jack”
Fort Davidson State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Site of the Battle of Pilot Knob (September 27, 1864) — 1,500 Union soldiers held off
First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Where Missouri government first met in 1821 — the restored Peck Brothers store in St. Charles
Felix Valle House State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — 1818 French Colonial limestone house in Ste. Genevieve — oldest permanent European settlement west of the
Deutschheim State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Preserves the German heritage of Hermann, Missouri — founded in 1836 by the Deutsche Ansiedlungs-Gesellschaft as
Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Eccentric 12,000-square-foot lodge built into a limestone bluff by John Homer Bothwell (1897–1928) — features 31
Bollinger Mill State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — 1800s water-powered grist mill with adjacent Burfordville Covered Bridge — the oldest covered bridge in Missouri
Battle of Lexington State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Site of the three-day “Battle of the Hemp Bales” (September 1861) — Confederates soaked hemp bales
Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Site where the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry became among the first African American soldiers to engage
Battle of Carthage State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Site of the first full-scale land battle of the Civil War — July 5, 1861, eleven
Battle of Athens State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Northernmost Civil War battle west of the Mississippi — August 5, 1861, 500 Union Home Guard
Yachats Ocean Road State Natural Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Rugged basalt shoreline along Yachats Ocean Road — Yachats (pronounced “ya-HOTS”) is called the “Gem of the Oregon Coast”
Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Oregon’s oldest continuously operating hotel — built in 1883! Jack London stayed here in 1911 and wrote portions of
Willamette Stone State Heritage Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 The exact point from which ALL land in Oregon and Washington is surveyed — the Willamette Stone marks the
Wallowa Lake Highway Forest State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Stunning mountain highway corridor leading to Wallowa Lake — the “Switzerland of Oregon” with 9,000-foot peaks and glacial lakes
Unity Forest State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Mountain forest corridor in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon — ponderosa pine forests at 4,000+ feet elevation. Visitor
Umpqua State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Scenic corridor along the North Umpqua River — legendary steelhead and salmon fishing on one of Oregon’s most pristine
Tseriadun State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Recreation site in the Mount Hood foothills — “Tseriadun” is a Native American name reflecting the deep indigenous heritage
Sunset Beach State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Wide sandy beach near Warrenton — views of the Columbia River Bar, “Graveyard of the Pacific,” where over 2,000
Stonefield Beach State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Secluded beach with exposed rock formations and tide pools — one of the quieter, lesser-known beaches on the central
Sheridan State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Scenic corridor along the South Yamhill River — Oregon wine country with sweeping views of the Coast Range foothills.
Paradise Point State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Scenic coastal point near Port Orford — dramatic cliff views of the Pacific and nearby Humbug Mountain. Visitor Information
Otter Point State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Rocky headland on the southern Oregon coast — tide pools, sea stacks, and excellent whale watching. Sea otters were
Ontario State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Rest area on the Snake River at the Oregon-Idaho border — Ontario is Oregon’s eastern gateway, where Pacific and
Ona Beach State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Beautiful park where Beaver Creek meets the Pacific Ocean — sheltered beach, estuary habitat, and the Brian Booth Wetlands
Mary S. Young State Recreation Area
🏆🏆🏆🏆 128-acre forested park along the Willamette River in West Linn — old-growth Douglas fir and big-leaf maple with 4
Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 500-acre park with sand dunes, Cleawox Lake, and Woahink Lake — gateway to the Oregon Dunes, the largest expanse
Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Multi-use trail along the Historic Columbia River Highway — America’s first planned scenic highway (1913–1922), an engineering masterpiece by
H. B. Van Duzer Forest State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Ancient old-growth Sitka spruce forest along Highway 18 — some trees over 200 feet tall and 500+ years old!
Governor Patterson Memorial State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Named for Governor Isaac L. Patterson (1859–1929) — beachfront recreation on the southern Oregon coast. Visitor Information Detail Information
George W. Joseph State Natural Area
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Protects Punch Bowl Falls — a 35-foot waterfall plunging into a bowl-shaped basin in Eagle Creek canyon, one of
Fall Creek State Recreation Site
🏆 Official Guide: Fall Creek State Recreation Site — A scenic day-use area along Fall Creek Reservoir in the Oregon
D River State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Home of the D River — the world’s shortest river at only 120 feet! It flows from Devils Lake
Casey State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Day-use park along the East Fork Hood River — in the shadow of 11,249-foot Mt. Hood, Oregon’s highest peak
Cape Sebastian State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Dramatic 700-foot cape on the southern Oregon coast — one of the most spectacular ocean viewpoints in the Pacific
Bradley State Scenic Viewpoint
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Scenic viewpoint in the Yamhill County wine country — Oregon’s Willamette Valley is one of the world’s premier Pinot
Booth State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Scenic corridor along the Row River near Cottage Grove — gateway to covered bridges. Lane County has 20 historic
Bolon Island Tideways State Scenic Corridor
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Scenic corridor protecting tidal marshlands at the mouth of the Umpqua River — critical habitat for migratory shorebirds on
Crooked Creek State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Alaska Wilderness — Kenai River tributary access — popular sockeye salmon fishing spot where Crooked Creek meets the Kasilof
Summit Lake State Recreation Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Alaska Wilderness — Alpine lake at 1,100 feet on the Seward Highway — stunning turquoise glacial lake surrounded by