Vacation Land — The National Forests in Oregon ^"^ 



Lehman and Hideaway Springs may be reached by automobile from either Ukiah 

 or Albee, and from Lehman Springs a passable automobile road runs to Starkey 

 in the Grande Ronde Valley and thence to Hilgard, on the Oregon-Washington 

 Railroad. 



A summer automobile road runs from Heppner via Hardman and Parkers 

 Mill to Monument in the John Day country, and from Heppner via Hardman to 

 Spray on the John Day River. In the eastern division, the road from Lehman 

 Springs to Starkey runs east and west across the Forest. The western division 

 has an east and west road from Heppner to Ukiah in the Camas Valley, but it is 

 impassable for automobiles. 



There are no camping places on National Forest lands which can be recom- 

 mended for those traveling by horse-drav^n vehicles. While there are well-grassed 

 meadows scattered throughout the Forest, these are mostly in private ownership, 

 acquired before the creation of the Forest, and are grazed by stock of the owners. 



The supervisor has headquarters at Pendleton, and district rangers are located 

 at the Dixon, Ditch Creek, Frazier, BUis, and Williams ranger stations. 



UMPQUA NATIONAL FOREST 



THE Umpqua National Forest is bounded on the east by the summit of the 

 Cascade Range, on the north by the Calapooya Mountains, and on the 

 south by the Umpqua-Rogue River divide. The Forest is, therefore, 

 identical with the upper basin of the Umpqua drainage system, except for an addi- 

 tional unit of about four townships on the north, which is included in the Willamette 

 watershed. The area is 1,011,022 acres. 



Two major drainage lines cross the Forest, the North and South Umpqua 

 Rivers. These streams and their tributaries have cut deeply and sharply into the 

 long western slope of the Cascade Range, thus forming a labyrinth of steep, dark 

 canyons and narrow, irregular ridges. An exception to this rule is the extreme 

 headwaters of the North Umpqua, where the valleys have been glaciated and later 

 filled in by pumice deposits. In this region many of the streams come to the sur- 

 face in full volume from their underground channels. 



The region is generally covered by a heavy forest, with Douglas fir at the lower 

 altitudes and Shasta fir and mountain hemlock as the principal species of the high 

 country. 



