Eastern Oregon
Eastern Oregon is the eastern portion of Oregon which is arid and sparsely inhabited. Much of it is desert and semi-desert. It covers between a third and a half of the state's land area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Pendleton and Baker City.
Pendleton
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Pendleton is a city of 17,000 people in Eastern Oregon. The city is set in a pleasant valley set among hilly cropland on the I-84 several hours east of Portland. It is the location of one of the manufacturing plants of Pendleton Woolen Mills.
Baker City
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Baker City is a small city in Eastern Oregon located on the I-84 about 40 minutes south-east of La Grande.
La Grande
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La Grande is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Oregon, United States. La Grande is Union County's largest city, with a population of 13,082 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Ontario and Lakeview.
Ontario
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Ontario is a city of 12,000 people in Eastern Oregon along the Snake River at the Idaho border. The city is the largest community in the region of far eastern Oregon, also known as the Western Treasure Valley.
Lakeview
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Lakeview is a town of 2,400 people in eastern Oregon. The city bills itself as the "Tallest Town in Oregon" because of its elevation, 4,802 feet above sea level.
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Burns
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Burns is a city in and the county seat of Harney County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. According to the 2020 census, the population was 2,730. Burns and the nearby city of Hines are home to about 60 percent of the people in the sparsely populated county, by area the largest in Oregon and the tenth largest in the United States.
Fossil
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Fossil is a city in and the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States. The name was chosen by the first postmaster, Thomas B. Hoover, who had found some fossil remains on his ranch. The population was 473 at the 2010 census.
Hermiston
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Hermiston is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Its population of 20,322 makes it the largest city in Eastern Oregon. Hermiston is the largest and fastest-growing city in the Hermiston-Pendleton Micropolitan Statistical Area, the eighth largest Core Based Statistical Area in Oregon with a combined population of 92,261 at the 2020 census.
John Day
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John Day is a city located approximately 2 miles north of Canyon City in Grant County, Oregon, United States, at the intersection of U.S. Routes 26 and 395.
Hines
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Hines is a city in Harney County in the Eastern Oregon region of Oregon.
Huntington
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Huntington is a city in Baker County, on the eastern border of Oregon, United States. It is located on the Snake River and along Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 30. The population was 502 at the 2020 census.
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Milton-Freewater
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Milton-Freewater is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. The city received its current name in 1951 when neighboring rival cities of Milton and Freewater voted to merge.
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Kimberly
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Kimberly is a small town in Eastern Oregon, the closest town to John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
Eastern Oregon
- Type: Region with 180,000 residents
- Description: non-officially recognized geographic region with varying boundaries within the eastern portion of the State of Oregon, USA
- Category: territory
- Location: Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Eastern Oregon” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Oregon oriental”
- Chinese: “东俄勒冈”
- Chinese: “东俄勒冈州”
- Chinese: “俄勒冈州东部”
- Chinese: “俄勒岡州東部”
- Chinese: “奧勒岡州東部”
- Chinese: “東俄勒岡”
- Chinese: “東俄勒岡州”
- Dutch: “Eastern Oregon”
- Japanese: “オレゴン州東部”
- Japanese: “東オレゴン”
- Latin: “Oregonia Orientalis”
- Slovenian: “vzhodni Oregon”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Oregon”
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