The Best Hike in Medford, Oregon | Lower Table Rock
We hike Lower Table Rock in Medford, Oregon. The wildflowers are in bloom, we find a pond full of frogs, and the view is quite beautiful.
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Best Spring Hike near Medford | Upper Table Rock
We hike Upper Table Rock near Medford.
In my opinion, the Table Rock trails are the best spring hikes in Southern Oregon. So many wildflowers!!
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Table Rock in Medford, Oregon
Lower Table Rock
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We had a super fun time hiking and shooting this last week at Lower Table Rock, near Central Point, Oregon.
Anyone who’s done this hike knows it’s a must-see staple hike of Southern Oregon. It’s beautiful, it’s pretty easy and quick, fun for all ages, and the VIEW is totally worth every step!!
These table rocks are plateaus that were created by lava flow millions of years ago, and what’s left of them is awe-inspiring and beautiful.
It’s a fairly easy hike to get to the top as well! It took us a good couple of hours because we were shooting video obviously, but it was totally worth the view, as you can see.
From the top of these majestic rock formations you can see just about everything in every direction.
We just enjoyed taking in and capturing every piece of nature we could get ahold of up there, and the weather that day was perfectly beautiful as well.
Once we were at the top, I was also able to take the drone up for a while and get some really fun and epic shots of the area that I got to have some fun with in editing. Including Upper Table Rock which can be seen from across the way. The entire Medford Valley can be seen from all around.
Adding to the beauty of this location was the practicality of it - I got to carry out my plan of getting a certain drone shot of the landscape and then using our telephoto lens to capture it closer up, allowing me to do a smooth zoom transition effect in editing a montage featuring our shots from the day.
Overall, it was a lot of fun and I think we’ll have to go back and do it again sometime soon!
Directions: To find the Lower Table Rock trailhead from Interstate 5 take Central Point exit 33 (just north of Medford), drive east on Biddle Road 1 mile, turn left on Table Rock Road for 5.2 miles to a curve,
keep going (away from Medford) to milepost 10, and then turn left on Wheeler Road 0.8 mile.
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Table Rocks in Southern Oregon
The 4,864-acre Table Rocks Management Area is cooperatively owned and administered by the Medford District Bureau of Land Management (2,105 acres) and The Nature Conservancy (2,759 acres). Memorandums of Understanding signed in 2011 and 2012 with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians allow for coordinating resources to protect the Table Rocks for present and future generations. A cooperative management plan for the area was completed in 2013.
The Table Rocks trails are some of the most highly used trails in the Rogue Valley—almost 50,000 people hike the trails to the top each year. You could be one of hundreds of hikers enjoying the wildflowers and scenic vistas on a beautiful spring day, or you could be the lone hiker on a cold, foggy winter day. Some people like to linger and take their time getting to the top, watching for birds and identifying wildflowers on the way, while others run the trail and focus on getting a workout.
During the spring months, BLM Rangers lead large school groups on guided hikes Tuesday through Fridays, stopping often along the trail. To encounter fewer people and school groups, consider hiking in the early morning or early afternoon on weekdays.
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Lower Table Rock during sunrise on a foggy day. Lower Table Rock is a rock formation in the Rogue Valley near Medford, Oregon.
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Atop Table Rock, Table Rock Wilderness, Oregon - June '19 - Always Ants
Join us atop Table Rock in the Table Rock Wilderness in Oregon in June 2019. One of the less known wildernesses and one of many same-named geographic features in the state, this Table Rock, situated outside Molalla, is really not at all like a table. However, like its true-table big sisters in the Rogue Valley, it also offers stellar vistas... of mainly civilization and human activity. For us, the Medford-area Tables don't offer the solitude, relative peace, and forest hiking that this Table does, and so we like it much better. Plus, here the rock cairns actually serve a purpose!
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Table Rocks Central Point Oregon like you've never seen before! Shot with a Yuneec Q500 Typhoon Quadcopter March 07 2015.
WWII Camp White pillboxes at Table Rocks
In 1942, tens of thousands of U.S. military draftees started arriving in southwest Oregon to train for WWII.
At the Beagle Artillery Range, just northeast of Medford, the training was as realistic as possible.
Soldiers dug a 20-foot-deep trench a half-mile long, crawled under barbed wire and attacked concrete pillboxes meant to replicate Nazi fortifications.
The ammunition was real, too, at Camp White, the hastily built military base that became Oregon’s second largest city in about six months.
Now, after decades of private cattle grazing, the artillery range and most of the bunkers rest on public land managed by the BLM.
It is on the east flank of Upper Table Rock, one of a pair of flat-topped mountains partially formed by a 44-mile-long lava flow some 7.5 million years ago. The entire area is protected as an area of critical environmental concern, and the BLM hopes to honor the Camp White legacy with trails and interpretive signs around the pillboxes.
“All of those pillboxes on all of that land — we were just part of this one huge thing that took over the world,” said George Kramer, a local historian who in 1992 wrote “Camp White: City in the Agate Desert.”
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Table Rocks Environmental Education!
Upper and Lower Table Rocks are two of the most prominent topographic features in the Rogue River Valley. These flat-topped buttes rise approximately 800 feet above the north bank of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon. Upper and Lower refer to their positions relative to each other along the Rogue River; Lower Table Rock is located downstream, or lower on the river, from Upper Table Rock.
The Table Rocks were designated in 1984 as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) to protect special plants and animal species, unique geologic and scenic values, and education opportunities. The remarkable diversity of the Table Rocks includes a spectacular spring wildflower display of over 75 species, including the dwarf wooly meadowfoam (Limnanthes floccosa ssp. pumila), which grows nowhere else on Earth but on the top of the Table Rocks. Vernal pool fairy shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi), federally listed as threatened, inhabit the seasonally formed vernal pools found on the tops of both rocks.
The 4,864-acre Table Rocks Management Area is cooperatively owned and administered by the Medford District Bureau of Land Management (2,105 acres) and The Nature Conservancy (2,759 acres). Memorandums of Understanding signed in 2011 and 2012 with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians allow for coordinating resources to protect the Table Rocks for present and future generations. A cooperative management plan for the area was completed in 2013.
Explore Oregon Recreation: Table Rocks Recreation Area
The 4,864-acre Table Rocks Management Area is cooperatively owned and administered by the Medford District Bureau of Land Management (2,105 acres) and The Nature Conservancy (2,759 acres). Memorandums of Understanding signed in 2011 and 2012 with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians allow for coordinating resources to protect the Table Rocks for present and future generations. A cooperative management plan for the area was completed in 2013.
Lower Table Rock
From Interstate 5, take Exit #33 heading east one mile on East Pine Street and turn north at the signal onto Table Rock Road. Drive 10 miles to Wheeler Road and turn west. The trailhead is accessible off of Wheeler Road.
The trail is 1.75 miles long. It is a moderately difficult trail approximately .5 miles longer than Upper Table Rock Trail. Lower Table Rock Trail offers interpretive signs for hikers. Water is not available along the trail or at the trailhead. Allow approximately 4 hours for a round trip hike.
For those eager to extend their hike, you may enjoy walking along the abandoned airstrip to the edge of the rock. This will add an extra mile to your trip. The south edge of the rock offers a great view of the unique habitat of Kelly Slough. This wetland lies 800 feet below and provides unique habitat for many aquatic birds.
Upper Table Rock
From Interstate 5, take Exit #33 heading east one mile on East Pine Street and turn north at the signal onto Table Rock Road. Drive 5.3 miles to Modoc Road and turn north. The trailhead is accessible off Modoc Road.
The trail is approximately 1.25 miles long. It is an easy/moderate trail with some steep sections. Good sturdy shoes and water are strongly recommended. There is no water available on the trail or at the trailhead. Allow approximately three hours for your round trip hike. This trail is suggested for first time hikers.
On your ascent up the trail keep an eye out for the unique monolith rock formations. These irregular shaped monoliths may have been part of the original lava flow. On a clear day the summit offers a spectacular panoramic view that includes the Rogue River valley, Mt. McLoughlin, Mt. Ashland, and Pilot Rock.
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Table Rock Wilderness
The United States Congress designated the Table Rock Wilderness in 1984 and it now has over 5,786 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Oregon and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
A remnant of a lava flow that once covered this region along the western foothills of the Cascades, the fortress of Table Rock stands at 4,881 feet above the northeastern portion of this small Wilderness. On this steep and rugged terrain you'll find a quiet forest of Douglas fir and western hemlock, with noble fir at higher elevations and crowds of rhododendron on many of the upper slopes, an island of old growth in an ocean of forest development. At least two endangered plants bloom here: Oregon sullivantia and Gorman's aster. Deer and elk wander about in winter, and the northern spotted owl has been spotted among the old trees.
The Bureau of Land Management's National Conservation Lands, also known as the National Landscape Conservation System, contain some of the West's most spectacular landscapes. It includes over 886 federally recognized areas and approximately 27 million acres that include Wilderness areas.
With the passage of the Omnibus Public Land Act in March 2009, the BLM now manages eight Wilderness Areas across nearly 247,000 acres in Oregon. The BLM also manages one Wilderness Area in Washington covering 7,142 acres. In addition, the BLM currently protects wilderness values on 82 Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) and five Instant Study Areas in Oregon totaling more than 2.6 million acres and one WSA in Washington totaling 5,557 acres.
Wilderness is Congressionally-designated piece land that is managed in accordance with the Wilderness Act of 1964 to ...secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness. Wilderness areas are places where natural processes take precedent; areas managed so that nature remains substantially unchanged by human use. Rugged trails provide the only access into wilderness, and travel is restricted to foot or horseback.
This video will allow you to plan your trip, navigate the wilderness, and enjoy its solitude and splendor. Before you head out to this area be sure you know how to use a map and compass. To learn a little more about map and compass navigation check out our video on YouTube:
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Geology of Table Rocks
Approximately 48 to 35 million years ago, the Payne Cliffs Formation was being deposited by rivers in the area of the Table Rocks. The Payne Cliffs Formation is made up of river deposited sandstone and conglomerates. From 20 to 10 million years ago the uplift of the nearby Klamath Mountains and the formation of the Rogue Valley took place.
About 7 million years ago, a shield volcano erupted a lava flow that was approximately forty-four miles long and spread out over the entire valley, from the Prospect area to Sams Valley. This mass of lava caused the valley floor to rise in elevation to the height of the top of Table Rocks.
The 4,864-acre Table Rocks Management Area is cooperatively owned and administered by the Medford District Bureau of Land Management (2,105 acres) and The Nature Conservancy (2,759 acres). Memorandums of Understanding signed in 2011 and 2012 with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians allow for coordinating resources to protect the Table Rocks for present and future generations. A cooperative management plan for the area was completed in 2013.
The Table Rocks trails are some of the most highly used trails in the Rogue Valley—almost 50,000 people hike the trails to the top each year. You could be one of hundreds of hikers enjoying the wildflowers and scenic vistas on a beautiful spring day, or you could be the lone hiker on a cold, foggy winter day. Some people like to linger and take their time getting to the top, watching for birds and identifying wildflowers on the way, while others run the trail and focus on getting a workout.
During the spring months, BLM Rangers lead large school groups on guided hikes Tuesday through Fridays, stopping often along the trail. To encounter fewer people and school groups, consider hiking in the early morning or early afternoon on weekdays.
To find out more about this stunning area head on over to:
360° wildflower hike on Upper Table Rock
New 360° video: Hiking on top of Upper Table Rock with all the wildflowers blooming right now! Video: Lisa McNee, BLM
Table Rocks in southern Oregon are known for their distinguishing geologic features, wildflowers and also for being a great hiking outlet for the nearby city of Medford.
The 800-foot-tall ridges rise immediately above the Rogue River. On the prominent flat top there is very little topsoil, keeping the wildflowers small.
“We all call them belly flowers,” said Molly Allen, the local BLM botanist.
Among the flowers at the top of Upper Table Rock: California goldfields; cow’s udder; miniature lupin; popcorn flowers; and the dwarf wooly meadowfoam, a flower not found anywhere else in the world.
Now is a great time to visit Table Rocks, not just because of the nice weather, but because of the guided hikes happening every weekend in partnership with the Nature Conservancy.
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