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CENTRAL OREGON STRONG Show your love for Central Oregon by staying safe, and staying home.

CENTRAL OREGON DELIVERED

Staying home doesn’t mean missing out on great Central Oregon products.

LOCAL SHOTS

Central Oregon’s great outdoors are a photographer’s dream, and here’s why.

ADVENTURE CALLS A new eight-episode series shows off the region’s multi-dimensional beauty.

HERITAGE

Walking on lava: The volcanic history of Central Oregon.

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CENTRAL OREGON DELIVER CENTRAL OREGON DELIVER CENTRAL OREGON DELIVERE CENTRAL CENTRAL OREGON DELIVERED OREGON CENTRAL OREGON DELIVERED DELIVERED CENTRAL OREGON DELIVERE While spring plans may call for staying home, there’s no reason to miss out on the best products and provisions created in Central Oregon—instead, have them delivered right to your door.

Bring the High Desert to your own home through online orders of your favorite Central Oregon products, including wines, artisan creations, foods and more. Here’s a sample of the many Central Oregon products available for ordering online.

FAITH HOPE & CHARITY WINES

This family-owned vineyard sits on 312 acres in Terrebonne, and offers views of the Three Sisters mountain range, a series of three mountains originally named Faith Hope and Charity. Because of Central Oregon’s unpredictable weather, the winemakers at Faith Hope & Charity grow cold-hardy grapes that can withstand f rost and thrive in a short growing season. Visit the vineyard online to place an order of whites or reds, including syrah and pinot noir. You can even order wineglasses to go along with your purchase. Free local delivery is also available.

OUTDOOR UKULELE If you’re looking to learn a new instrument or introduce a child to something new, what better option than a ukulele f rom Bend’s Outdoor Ukulele. The business was started in 2014 by industrial designer Scott Seelye and his wife, Jennifer. The ukuleles and guitars made by the company are built to take backpacking, camping and traveling, and their products have been on adventures around the world. Get a behind-the-scenes look at Outdoor Ukulele in our Central Oregon Makers video series.

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HIGH DESERT FOOD & FARM Support the food and farming networks of Central Oregon with a visit to the online High Desert Food & Farm Store. Here you’ll f ind local food gift boxes, with products like toffee, nuts, salsas, teas and more, all created in Central Oregon.

Proceeds f rom the boxes support the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance’s programs.

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LO C A L S H OTS

@ jeff reymurrayphotography

From the diverse climate to towering waterfalls and iconic natural wonders, Central Oregon offers photographers plenty of insipration. While you “Stay Home and Stay Safe,” we asked three local photographers what they love about capturing Central Oregon. We hope you find inspiration in their work until it’s time for another adventure.

@timlydenphotography

“Photographing where the desert meets the mountains and two drastically different landscapes combine has always been a joy to me. The light, vegetation and distant mountains create the perfect storm for beautiful imagery.” - Jeff rey Murray

@tonitstop

“My favorite part of photographing Central Oregon happens at night when its classic venues come alive under starry skies and the Milky Way.” - Tim Lyden

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“The best part about shooting in Central Oregon is the diversity of the landscape. An hour or two in any direction and you go f rom mountain ranges and glacier lakes, to lush waterfalls, and even colorful deserts. It’s a photographer’s dream.” - Toni Toreno

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Beyond Outdoor Adventure in Central Oregon

By Alisha Roemling

Episode 1 Available Here

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From its snow-capped mountains and basalt-colored rocks to its verdant forests and alpine rivers and lakes, Central Oregon wows with its abundance of natural beauty. But outdoor adventuring in this natural wonderland isn’t the only draw to the area.

A new eight-episode series titled “Adventure Calls” will show off the area’s multidimensional beauty by highlighting some of its lesser-known culinary, arts and cultural attractions, set against the backdrop of the magnif icent outdoors.

The series is hosted by longtime adventure photographer and videographer Chad Copeland, who has traveled the world on assignment for National Geographic and the BBC’s “The Blue Planet.”

“We’re hoping to create an adventure-culture movement,” Copeland says, “that recognizes the different types of businesses that make up this community, and tells this incredible story about Central Oregon in a responsible and sustainable way.” Episodes will explore topics such as the flow of the Deschutes River, the Old Mill District’s timber history, Western and rodeo culture, winter snow adventures and more.

“We realized we needed to f ind a way to educate people about Central Oregon and go deeper than the outdoor reputation to show them the big arts, culture and culinary scene here,” says Joey Hamilton, chief marketing off icer of Visit Central Oregon, which is sponsoring the series. “We want people to know that when you get done with that hike or bike ride or trail run, that the adventure is not over.”

For more information see adventurecalls.visitcentraloregon.com

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Arts Music is also at the crux of what makes Central Oregon a Pacif ic Northwest hub—f rom summer outdoor concerts to intimate evenings of jazz. Classical pianist and Central Oregon native Hunter Noack will return home this summer for his f ifth season of In a Landscape, during which he plays a grand piano in a beautiful outdoor space, like at the top of Mount Bachelor. His unique twist on outdoor concerts is featured in an “Adventure Calls” episode.

“There is no better way to experience Central Oregon’s mature pine forests, mountain lakes, peaks, clean rivers and sagebrush deserts than with an invigorating combination of heart-pumping adventure sports and soul-nourishing music,” Noack said, “all with a diverse group of people who come together, f rom near and far, to love these magical landscapes.”

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Tread lightly—when you’re in Central Oregon, you’re walking on active volcanoes. Well, kind of.

To the west sit the Three Sisters, which are dated at between 50,000 and 100,000 years old. Bend is built on volcanic remnants, and proof of our volcanic history is everywhere. Farther south lie other volcanoes, which have erupted before and very well may erupt again.

The Cascade Range volcanoes are there because of the Cascadia subduction zone. As Oregon Public Broadcasting explains, the Juan de Fuca plate sinks underneath the North American plate, and as it pushes down, it forms magma. That rises to the surface, creating volcanoes— most of the Cascade Range.

Central Oregon is filled with signs of its volcanic past— and future. Just south of Bend lies the Newberry National Volcanic Monument in Deschutes National Forest. The monument includes Newberry Crater—actually a caldera formed by a volcanic eruption—as well as the Lava Lands and Lava Butte just off Highway 97. You can visit the Lava Lands Visitor Center to learn more about the volcanic history of this place.

According to OPB, in recent decades scientists began examining the Tumalo Volcanic Center, a cluster of small hills that produced bigger volcanic activity than the Sisters or Mount St. Helens in Washington have ever produced. On top of Tumalo Volcanic Center’s eruption? The city of Bend is literally built on it. That eruption is why Bend has so much ashy pumice, which was used to build many of the older buildings in town, according to OPB. In southern Central Oregon, Crater Lake is a great example of the volcanic activity in the area. Crater Lake, which is 1,949 feet at its deepest and a glassy blue, was created by the explosion of Mount Mazama 7,700 years ago. According to the Crater Lake Trust, the lake remained undiscovered by T R A I L H E A D

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white explorers until 1853 as the Klamath tribes kept it a secret. The tribes believed Crater Lake was a sacred place, and Native Americans were likely on site when Mount Mazama exploded. The National Park Service has collected the stories passed down by the tribes.

At its height, it’s believed that Mount Mazama was 12,000 feet. When it blew, according to the Crater Lake Trust, it spewed 12 cubic miles of magma that reached Alberta, Canada, Wyoming and Nevada. The weight of the volcano’s peak collapsed in on itself, creating the caldera that we call Crater Lake. Wizard Island in the center of the lake is actually a cinder cone in the caldera floor. The caldera filled with snow melt and rain, and the water level fluctuates little throughout the year and stays a beautiful bright blue.

Today, it’s a national park, visited by more than 750,000 people each year.

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