Oregon Caves National Monument Tour
The Oregon Caves were discovered by Elijah Davidson and his dog Bruno in 1874 as explained in this video Tour, following Park ranger Suzan O'Larick. The Caves have been the biggest tourist attraction in Oregon for decades, and became a National Monument in 1909.
Filmed by Marc Arnaud Boussat on October 16, 2009 (and some footage in 2008).
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Picturesque Chateau - Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon
Fascinating historic Oregon Caves Chateau straddles the ravine at the head of a narrow canyon in the mountains of southern Oregon. The six story, ten sided rustic lodge filled the canyon and is covered with shaggy Port Orford cedar-bark and wood shakes.
Today a light to heavy rain helped set the mood for this organic picturesque lodge. It was a great day to sit in the lobby and watch the rain.
Built between 1931 and 1934, this 50 room lodge contains one of the largest collections of Monterey furniture in the world.
This video was captured in September 2013 with a Canon Vixia HFS-100 video camera and edited with Adobe Premier Pro 6.0.
Music is Moonstone by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
Explore a marble cave - Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon
Listen closely to our enthusiastic ranger as he guides us through the marble cave at Oregon Caves. He explains how the cave was first discovered, the forces necessary to create the formations, the uniqueness of the cave, and current and future concerns.
Discovered in 1874, Oregon Caves is a wonder to behold. It is a solution cave formed in a marble outcrop located in southwest Oregon. It has passageways totaling 15,000 feet and contains over 500 stairs. The temperature is a constant 44 degrees and the trail surface is uneven, slippery, and wet.
I was selected to be the last person in the group (my hand was in the air first when he asked for a volunteer). It was my responsibility to make sure everyone stayed ahead of me. This gave me a perfect opportunity to video the entire group as we made our way through the caves.
This video was captured in September 2013 with a Canon Vixia HFS-100 video camera and edited with Adobe Premier Pro 6.0.
Down the Rabbit hole to Oregon's Secret Hippie Cave
A natural cave along the Central Oregon Coast just south of Cape Perpetua.
Oregon Caves National Monument - Candlelight Tour (Vlog)
The candlelight tour was much better than expected! This beautiful and intimate cave made for a great evening with my daughter in the summer of 2017. Check out this vlog that shows our preparations, tour through the cave and intense drive back down the mountain.
The Chateau at the Oregon Caves
Views of the Organic Architecture exterior, interior, Monterey Furniture and surroundings at the Chateau at the Oregon Caves National Monument in Cave Junction, Oregon. Video co-produced by Southern Oregon Public Television and the National Park Service in association with Greg Frederick Productions and Pilot Rock Entertainment.
The Chateau at the Oregon Caves
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Oregon Caves Tour Review
Full review at galttech.com: Shows what Oregon Caves area look like, Chateau lodging, visitor center (where you get tickets for Oregon Cave Tours), and cave entrance.
Oregon Caves: Inside the ancient 'Marble Halls'
The Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, nicknamed “the marble halls of Oregon,” is a beautiful, ancient cavern found in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon.
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This is one of the wild caves at Oregon Caves. I don't know the name of this one.
Oregon Caves FINAL
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The Chateau at the Oregon Caves
The Chateau at Oregon Caves National Monument was built in 1934 and continues to welcome travelers.
Cave Junction, Oregon
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Cave Junction, Oregon
Cave Junction, incorporated in 1948, is a city in Josephine County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,883. Its motto is the Gateway to the Oregon Caves, and the city got its name by virtue of its location at the junction of Redwood Highway (U.S. Route 199) and Caves Highway (Oregon Route 46).
Cave Junction is located in the Illinois Valley, where, starting in the 1850s, the non-native economy depended on gold mining. After World War II, timber became the main source of income for residents. As timber income has since declined, Cave Junction is attempting to compensate with tourism and as a haven for retirees. Tourists visit the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, which includes the Oregon Caves Chateau, as well as the Out'n'About treehouse resort and the Great Cats World Park zoo.
For thousands of years, the Takelma Indians inhabited the Illinois Valley. Their culture was destroyed when gold was discovered in the early 1850s, causing the subsequent Rogue River Wars. After an 1853 treaty, most of the Takelmas lived on the Table Rock Reservation. In 1856, after the wars ended, they were moved to the Grand Ronde Reservation and the Siletz Reservation.
The first gold in Oregon history was found in the Illinois Valley, as well as the largest gold nugget (). In 1904, more than 50 years after prospectors had started combing the valley for gold, an 18-year-old named Ray Briggs discovered what newspapers at the time called the most wonderful gold discovery ever reported in Oregon history. While hunting along Sucker Creek, he discovered gold lying on the ground. He staked a claim and called it the Wounded Buck Mine, which produced of gold. The mine was a small vein of gold wide, long and deep.
As gold mining in the Illinois Valley became exhausted in the 1860s and 1870s, the residents diversified into ...
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This is a small cave at Oregon Caves. The dark spot on the rock at the beginning is a snail. At 0:25 is another snail. At 0:49 the red thing on the ceiling is a survey marker.
Paradise Lost - Oregon Caves National Monument
This tall narrow wet chamber named Paradise Lost boasts some of the most breathtaking drapery decorations in the whole cave.
Know Before You Go
A short video outlining tips and need-to-know facts for your visit to Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve.
Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve | Wikipedia audio article
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Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve is a protected area in the northern Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon in the United States. The 4,554-acre (1,843 ha) park, including the marble cave, is 20 miles (32 km) east of Cave Junction, on Oregon Route 46. The protected area, managed by the National Park Service (NPS), is in southwestern Josephine County, near the Oregon–California border.
Elijah Davidson, a resident of nearby Williams, discovered the cave in 1874. Over the next two decades, private investors failed in efforts to run successful tourist ventures at the publicly owned site. After passage of the Antiquities Act by the United States Congress, in 1909 President William Howard Taft established Oregon Caves National Monument, to be managed by the United States Forest Service (USFS). The growing popularity of the automobile, construction of paved highways, and promotion of tourism by boosters from Grants Pass led to large increases in cave visitation during the late 1920s and thereafter. Among the attractions at the remote monument is the Oregon Caves Chateau, a six-story hotel built in a rustic style in 1934. It is a National Historic Landmark and is part of the Oregon Caves Historic District within the monument. The NPS, which assumed control of the monument in 1933, offers tours of the cave from mid-April through early November. In 2014, the protected area was expanded by about 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) and re-designated a National Monument and Preserve. At the same time, the segment of the creek that flows through the cave was renamed for the mythological Styx and added to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
Oregon Caves is a solutional cave, with passages totaling about 15,000 feet (4,600 m), formed in marble. The parent rock was originally limestone that metamorphosed to marble during the geologic processes that created the Klamath Mountains, including the Siskiyous. Although the limestone formed about 190 million years ago, the cave itself is no older than a few million years. Valued as a tourist cave, the cavern also has scientific value; sections of the cave that are not on tour routes contain fossils of national importance.
Activities at the park include cave touring, hiking, photography, and wildlife viewing. One of the park trails leads through the forest to Big Tree, which at 13 feet (4.0 m) is the widest Douglas fir known in Oregon. Lodging and food are available at The Chateau and in Cave Junction. Camping is available in the preserve at the Cave Creek Campground, at a local USFS campground, and private sites in the area.
Wild Backcountry Excursion to Oregon Caves Monument!
Come follow me on my excursion to Oregon Caves National Monument! Boondocking off a logging road followed by a tour of the Oregon Caves and I don't mean sea lions!! LOL....Natural Caves buried deep beneath the mountains of the Siskiyou's! Enjoy email ▶︎ thewestcoastroller@gmail.com
New Security Measures for Cave Junction
Cave Junction will soon be ramping up their security downtown.
NBC5's Amanda Rose spoke with business owners today about how they're feeling about the plan.
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The Chateau Experience - Great Lodge of the Marble Halls of Oregon
The grand celebration continues as the Oregon Caves Chateau surpasses 75 years of operation as one of the great lodges in the National Park System.
'Today's visitor to the Chateau is still enchanted by the rustic sense of place that the builder and the landscape architects created. Entering the area is very much like traveling back into the 1930s. The Chateau is more weathered, but the furnishings are entirely original. Even the smell of the aging fiberboard wall panels inside the Chateau contributes to that undeniably nostalgic feeling.'