Great Botanical Sites
Here’s a list of what I think are some of the best accessible botanical sites in the Western Cascades. The roads are drivable in a passenger car (most years), and the hikes are no more than 8 miles round trip, most considerably less. Click on a site name to get directions, trip reports, a plant list, and other information about the location (I’m still in the process of adding these).
Columbia Gorge
Multnomah County
Clackamas
Clackamas County
- Anvil Lake (AL)
- Bull of the Woods (BW)
- Cache Meadows (CA)
- High Rock (HI)
- Table Rock (TR)
- Whetstone Mountain (WM)
Santiam
Linn, Marion counties
- Bachelor Mountain (BA)
- Browder Ridge (BR)
- Bruno Meadows (BN)
- Coffin Mountain (CF)
- Echo Basin (EB)
- Gordon Meadows (GO)
- Hawk Mountain (HM)
- Iron Mountain & Cone Peak (IM)
- Monument Peak (MN)
- Park Creek Basin (PC)
- Parish and Daly Lakes (PL)
- Three Pyramids (PY)
McKenzie
Lane, Linn counties
- Carpenter Mountain (CP)
- Castle Rock (CR)
- Horsepasture Mountain (HP)
- Lowder Mountain (LM)
- Olallie Mountain (OL)
- Quaking Aspen Swamp (QA)
- Tidbits Mountain (TB)
Willamette
Lane and Douglas counties
- Bearbones Mountain (BB)
- Blair Lake (BL)
- Bristow Prairie (BP)
- Cloverpatch Trail (CL)
- Deception Butte (DB)
- Devil’s Garden (DG)
- Eagles Rest (ER)
- Elk Camp & Nevergo Meadow (ES)
- Fairview Peak & Bohemia Mountain (FP)
- Fall Creek Trail (FA)
- Grasshopper Meadows (GM)
- Grassy Glade (GG)
- Groundhog Mountain (GH)
- Heckletooth Mountain (HT)
- Hell’s Half Acre (HH)
- Hills Peak (HK)
- Huckleberry Mountain (HU)
- Lopez Lake (LZ)
- Moon Point (MP)
- Mount June (MJ)
- Patterson Mountain (PM)
- Scorpion Butte
- Tire Mountain (TM)
- Warfield Bog (WA)
- Warner Mountain (WN)
- Youngs Rock (YR)
North Umpqua & Calapooya Mountains
Douglas County
- Balm Mountain (BM)
- Bradley Lake (BY)
- BVD Trail (BV)
- Hemlock Lake (HL)
- Hills Peak (HK)
- Illahee Rock (IR)
- Loletta Lakes and Peak (LL)
- Lookout Mountain (LO)
- Medicine Creek Road (MD)
- Potter Mountain (PT)
- Reynolds Ridge (RR)
- Skipper Lakes (SK)
- Twin Lakes (TL)
- Watson Falls (WF)
- Wild Rose Point (WP)
Rogue-Umpqua Divide
Douglas County
- Abbott Butte (AB)
- Buck Canyon (BC)
- Donegan Prairie (DP)
- Fish Creek Valley (FV)
- Grasshopper Mountain (GS)
- Hershberger Mountain (HE)
- Rattlesnake Mountain (RM)
- Whitehorse Meadows (WH)