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National Parks in Oregon.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Oregon's headline NPS unit is Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States, formed in the caldera of a collapsed stratovolcano. Other Oregon units include Lewis & Clark National Historical Park, Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve, John Day Fossil Beds, Fort Vancouver (jointly administered with Washington), and Nez Perce. Portland (PDX) is the main anchor for the northern and central units; Medford (MFR) is closer to Crater Lake. Crater Lake's rim road typically opens in late June and closes with the first major storm in October. Snow depth at Park Headquarters routinely exceeds forty feet annually: the rim sits at 7,100 feet of elevation. The park is open year-round but most services run late May through September. The summer window is the only reliable time to drive the rim and access the boat tours.

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Oregon map with place names

Oregon National Parks map: labeled satellite map, showing 1 locations: Crater Lake
Oregon's 1 designated National Park. Dots mark general locations, not entrances. This map does not show every NPS source record in the directory below. Map: National Sites Guide, CC BY 4.0.

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NPS source records in Oregon.

Oregon has 10 records in our combined NPS metadata and visitor-statistics registry: 3 National Historic Trails · 2 National Historical Parks · 1 National Park · 1 National Historic Site · 1 National Geologic Trail · 1 National Monument · 1 National Monument & Preserve. This is a source-record count, not the Park Service's official system-unit census. Combined 5-year-average annual visits: 2,358,864 (multi-state units count their full visits in every state they touch, see methodology). The most-visited record is Fort Vancouver National Historic Site at about 964K annual visits.

Map of the broader NPS source-record directory
Every National Park Service site in Oregon, mapped. Each glowing marker is one site, placed at its real coordinates and colored by type. Select a marker for its yearly visits and a link, or use the filters to show or hide a group. 7 of 10 units are mapped here; long-distance trails and units centered in another state are in the table below.
National Park Service sites in Oregon, mapped Interactive map of Oregon showing the location of 7 National Park Service sites, colored by type: national parks, monuments and memorials, historic sites, recreation areas and seashores, rivers, trails and parkways, and other sites. It includes the National Park Crater Lake National Park. Each site is also listed with its yearly visits in the table below the map.

Marker positions are each unit's official NPS coordinates. State outline: U.S. Census cartographic boundary (public domain). Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

UnitDesignation5-yr avg visitsBusiest month
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site National Historic SiteFOVA 964,072 July
Crater Lake National Park National ParkCRLA 574,434 July
Nez Perce National Historical Park National Historical ParkNEPE 343,582 June
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park National Historical ParkLEWI 270,041 July
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument National MonumentJODA 147,228 June
Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve National Monument & PreserveORCA 59,507 July
California National Historic Trail National Historic TrailCALI — —
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail National Geologic TrailIAFL — —
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail National Historic TrailLECL — —
Oregon National Historic Trail National Historic TrailOREG — —

Methodology

Rows come from our combined NPS metadata and Visitor Use Statistics registry, not the Park Service's official census of 433 managed system units. Per-record visit counts come from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; the "5-year average visits" column is the mean of 2021-2025 Recreation Visits. Multi-state records are listed under every state they touch, and their full visit total appears in each state. Official National Park counts use the central 63-park classification rather than the source designation label alone. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

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Last updated · 2026-09-10