GORP - Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland

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Ochoco National Forest
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Situated in the heart of Oregon, the Ochoco's 1,500 square miles is a beguiling landscape of vertiginous rimrock, abysmal canyons, geologic oddities, dense pine forests, and high desert terrain. Modern-day explorers and outdoor adventurers can also wander the vast steppe of sagebrush and crooked juniper in the Crooked River National Grassland, also administered by the forest.

The Ochoco is yet another forest that owes its existence to Teddy Roosevelt — it was part of the old Blue Mountain Forest Reserve established back in 1906. The Ochoco eventually emerged as its own independent national forest in 1911. Congress created the Crooked River National Grassland in 1960.

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