Oregon's geographic diversity is its best asset, in my opinion - with amazing coastilne, beautiful mountains (both coast range and Cascades), and desert landscapes that will stop you in your tracks. One of the best things, in terms of the coast, is that in 1967, the state passed a bill that established a permanent public easement for access and recreation along the ocean shore seaward of the existing line of vegetation, regardless of ownership. In other words: Anybody can freely access any beach. Nobody can "own" it.

Barely 1% of Oregon's population lives in the southeast, yet those three counties (Malheur, Harney, and Lake) make up 29% of the state's total area.

As a native Oregonian, thank you for this amazing video. You clearly did your research and I think did our amazing state justice. This really makes me want to move back now.

I moved here 35 years ago. Not freezing cold and not steamy hot, and an outdoor paradise for camping and hiking.

From the east coast in NYC, much love to Oregon and residents of Oregon!

Oh, you're gonna get a lot of views on this. Us Oregonians really are proud of our state...

Just adding here that in particular, Oregon's wine industry really excels at Pinot Noir. I've heard that it's because the Willamette Valley almost exactly mirrors the same growing conditions in France, which helps a lot with the temperamental grape. Whatever the reason, it means you can go do some great countryside wine tasting without the Napa/Sonoma Valley prices.

*Sees Geography King did a geographic profile of my state * "Oh hell yes" I love my home state and you did a great job talking about our state. Also you pronounced it correctly, which is another plus

I’ve lived in the Rogue Vally for 9 years now. You’re right, it is a little rough around the edges, but there’s also a lot going for it. It’s a beautiful region. We enjoy living in Oregon!

Oregon's flag is like a mullet, business up front but a party out back

This is my home state! It's very beautiful with all the mountains and coast, and I really like the climate here. It's pleasant in summer and not overly cold in winter.

Hello from Salem! Nice job! The Cascadia Subduction Zone is potentially a 9.0 earthquake that's overdue. So we're not exactly low risk. Salem is currently accepting city flag redesigns so if anyone's interested, you have until July. Cheers y'all!

Yes. Oregon is one of the most beautiful State. I love the caves and dunes

You might want to mention the great amount of creative arts present in Oregon, including theatre. Ashland is home to the oldest Shakespeare Festival in the US, with a large repertoire running much of the year. In fact, many eventual Broadway plays and Tony award winners are premiered in Ashland. And that’s just one of many theatre offerings. The Rogue Valley also offers the Britt Fest summer music festival featuring all kinds of music. With a small population, the area is filled with creative professionals and appreciative audiences. Mix that with Southern Oregon University, and you’ve got a wonderfully creative, open, and ever-learning population.

I will be attending college in Oregon, and I am excited for the outdoor opportunities. (Moving from Hawai’i)

I’ve lived in Bend most my life, and the growth has been insane. Over the last two or three years, it’s felt really crowded. Most people think of Oregon as rainy and very green, but Bend is on the edge of a desert. Very dry.

This coverage of the state was surprisingly accurate (at least 90%). I don't usually expect that when it comes to these kinds of things. Have you covered the rest of the Northwest, like Washington and Idaho? I'd love to see those.

Excellent video. Greetings from Eastern Oregon.

Oregonian here, I'm so impressed by the research for this video, you know our state so well!!! I might add that John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in central Oregon is absolutely mind-blowingly spectacular (I think it should be given National Park status)

One of my favorite views in Oregon is of Mt McLoughlin from Interstate 5 South near Grants Pass- truly magnificent.

Seen a lot of vids lately with people dumping on Portland, really great to see you avoided that.Nice vid with that Kyle positivity to go along with it!

You should make one in the future for my home state of Colorado! Keep up the great work Kyle loving the videos!

I live in Oregon and have so for a long time. Your assessment is spot on. Good show Sir.

I love Oregon. I've dreamed of living there over half my 28-year life. I finally visited this August and it far exceeded all of my expectations. It blew my mind. Especially since I'm from the Chicago burbs where it's flat as hell. Plan on moving there as soon as I can.

Visited Oregon for my first time last summer. Beautiful landscapes. My profile picture is of Cannon Beach in Oregon. Crater Lake, Mount Hood, and the rest of the coast are all gorgeous too! Love the channel, Kyle!

We moved to Oregon in 1975 from the San Francisco Bay Area where we both grew up. Love the forests, the nice people and the slower pace. We live just north of Corvallis on the western edge of the Willamette Valley and raised our 2 kids here.The coast is less than an hour away, Salem a half hour and Portland 90 minutes. The state's scenery is truly spectacular, especially on I-84 along the gorge or I-5 from Eugene to the California border.

Just crossed into Oregon from Nevada today on a road trip so a very timely video. Just the few hours spent driving through attests to the natural beauty. The descent from the 140 is one of the biggest drops I have ever driven. Immediately after crossing the border the whole vibe changes. Very informative video.

THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING WILLAMETTE CORRECTLY!!!!!!!!!!!

An interesting note on hazelnuts: a significant portion of the state, especially people who's family have lived here for a while or live in a rural setting, call hazelnuts filberts. I've always grown up calling them filberts and they are grown everywhere you go in the willamette Valley.

Thank you for your overview of our state. Something you my not know, is that back in the ‘60s a law was passed that no one can own beach property. Making it the only coastal state where ALL of the beaches have public access.

Thank you so much for doing a great job profiling my home state of Oregon! You did a masterful job pronouncing all the place names correctly and you provided an excellent analysis of the state’s geography in terms of its landforms and economy. Only two minor inaccuracies: - When describing Eugene, you implied that Nike is headquartered there but, in fact, Nike is headquartered in Beaverton, a western suburb of Portland. - While it’s true that Oregon’s at less risk of frequent earthquakes, it is at greater risk for extremely damaging earthquakes and tsunamis. While the Cascadia Subduction Zone may rupture less often, a major earthquake along it will cause far more damage than a typical California quake.

Great video Kyle. I enjoyed watching. I know there aren't often large earthquakes there, but I encourage you to learn about the Cascadia Subduction zone before your video on Washington state. There has been research pointing to mega earthquakes that occur off the coast from northern California to Vancouver island, approximately every 300 years. The last one occurred in 1700 or so, I can't remember, but it's documented in Japan as an "orphan" tsunami, because there was no earthquake there. The wave traveled from western north America. When the Cascadia subduction zone "rips" it's supposed to be big, affecting the whole western third of the state. Now Oregon has yearly earthquake drills, but people didn't even know about this until the mid-1990s or so! Thanks for an otherwise great video about my home state!

I would love to see a geographic profile of my home state, Wisconsin! Every one of these kind of videos are so informative and interesting. Thanks, Kyle!

Let's gooo!!! My state. I've been waiting for a while.

What makes the west side of the Portland Metro Area (e.g. Hillsboro) so livable and nice is the UGB (urban growth boundary), which dramatically limits development sprawl into the farm lands and forests. The routes from Hillsboro, where I live, to the coast look basically the same as they did 30 years ago, which is amazing in today's world.

I grew up in southern Arizona, lived in Kansas and 5 years in Hawaii. Lived 12 years in central Washington. There's some strange weather. Oregon is the best as far as I am concerned. Lived here 20+ years and never want to move out of state. Given the recent hoorah over voting, Oregon has the most sensible system. You can register to vote at the DMV, 100% vote by mail. Notice no one is challenging Oregon's vote? There is a reason.

I enjoyed this. Iv been in Eugene for 9 years and grew up in the Rogue Valley and had grandparents in the dalles. It's a diverse state.

Congrats on 100K subscribers!

My 10 years in Oregon were some of my happiest

I thought that this was buried somewhere in your library of old videos. Boy was I excited to see it on my recommendations this evening.

Born and raised in Oregon. Grew up in the high desert. You wojdlnt believe the amount of people that have no idea that most of Oregon is high desert, and not some green paradise

Such an underrated and beautiful state

Wow! Thank you Kyle, I've been in Bend for 20 years now. It's a totally awesome place I know many people who forget that they aren't originally from here and try to scare off people from Washington, California and other states from coming here but I'll be the first to invite everyone to come check out our great state of Oregon maybe you'll fall in love and decide to become an Oregonian🙂

I'm a simple man. I see Kyle posts a new video, I press like. Then I habitually rewatch it for the next few weeks because the videos are dense enough that I don't retain it all on the first view c: I love your work keep it up!!!

My home state! I’m so glad to see you going over it. Oregon and the rest of the PNW are truly amazing.

Thank you for doing Oregon, I love my homestate.

You did a really good job. Thanks Kyle.

Great video! Wonder what TheWorldAccordingToBriggs would think of this? 🤔 Couple things of note: Hells Canyon is actually the deepest canyon in North America, averaging 2,000 feet deeper than even the Grand Canyon in Arizona. While Mount Hood is the lowest high point in the western states by elevation, that's largely due to fact that it does not sit on a plateau like most mountain ranges. In terms of rise above terrain/local relief, Mount Hood is actually the 4th tallest mountain in the lower 48 states, taller than any of the mountains in the Rockies or Sierra Nevada.

Geography King in May 2021: "It's not too hot in Oregon." 116° in June 2021: "Just dropping in to say hello"

Took my nurses training at Portland Adventist and thoroughly enjoyed my time in Oregon. I remember the incredibly cheap and delicious Asian restaurants with tofu option instead of meat, I loved it! Also Portland is known for its roses. I nursed in Lincoln City for a 3 month stint and loved exploring the coast. Ok, now you've made me want to go visit Oregon, it's been years since I've been there, feeling nostalgic. . .

Thank you for covering my home state. I've lived in many places all over this country and overseas, but I keep coming back. Thanks again.

In high school this would have been torture to listen to. 20 years later, I enjoy it and love learning about our geography more.

Kudos to you for putting the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase as the background pic on your Oregon financial report. I grew up in the state and your description of it is very accurate. Interesting to see Bend as the fifth largest city. Living there in the late 60's, it was a sleepy little town with a lot of dirt streets, no one could have foreseen such an explosive growth. Clean cold drinking water and no sales tax are great Oregon selling points.

You can never get tired of this place. So much beautiful green everywhere

wow 0 dislikes, you have a loyal base, shows the quality of your videos.

This is probably the only KZfaq channel that I’m subbed to that I’m younger than the mean viewer

Always wanted to visit, looks incredible

Ayo Geo King coming in clutch with the content today, looking to visit Oregon sometime soon.

Never got too far into Oregon but I’ll tell you the building structure and the vibe of Ashland was just so lovely, it was gorgeous

It does not have a huge earthquake threat? The Pacific Northwest is overdue for a 9.0 earthquake. Rare, once in 300 years but it is always in the back of our minds. Very thorough, great video. Oregon can also get hurricane force wind storms on a rare occasion, look up the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.

As an Oregon evangelist; someone who will cheer this state til i die, THANK YOU for this video. its an amazing place. and this video is basically what i tell people when they ask why i live here. and, look, it has to be said, thank you for not dragging this down into a political debate. I get so sick of people calling this state a "shithole" for whatever reason. we have our problems like every other state, but I think we more than make up for it.

Voodoo Doughnuts is a must-have every time I go to Portland! Good Job!

Not sure why you only have 153,000 subscribers, in my opinion you have one of the best channels on youtube.

i just moved to portland in february despite the warnings about protests and homelessness i really like living here. im from LA so im pretty used to this stuff and i find that its really not as bad as people make it out to be. Loving oregon so far. what a beautiful place!

I’ve been waiting a long time for this video, I’m very happy you got to talk about our state :))

Grew up in Bend, went to school at the St. Francis before it became a bar. Love the geography of the state but will likely never be able to afford to live in my hometown again. It's mostly transplants from CA now.

Great video! Born and raised in Portland and you clearly did your research! One thing, Nike headquarters is based in Beaverton, which is a suburb of Portland. But Phil Knight, is a U of O Alumni and makes large donations.

Can't forget about the Cascadian Subduction Zone (aka "the big one")

What a great Sunday! Kyle is back to state profiles..........and the countdown is on

Wow King, you are so close to 100k! Special moment for the channel

The earthquake risk in western Oregon is actually quite high. Every 600 years or so, we get a 9+ earthquake, and we're due for one. The Pacific plate pushes on the Juan de Fuca plate, which is subsiding under the North American plate. There are major faults running through west Portland. A lot of money has gone into remediating bridges and buildings. We don't get many large earthquakes, but the risk of a very large one is increasing. One reason for not living along the coast is the tsunami risk.

Wow, what an excellent overview!!! Thank you!

Thanks, lots of great info, I can’t wait to visit one day

Great video! Thanks for all the great info, I love your geographic profiles of the states. Can’t wait for Alaska.

Love your content man. Thanks for another great video.

Please do more of these! These geographic profiles of the US states are my favorite videos on all of KZfaq!

The Oregon coast is fantastic. Camped out in a few state parks coming down the coast from British Columbia to SF.

Once again Kyle, your presentation is top shelf, thank you 😊

Yesss!! Thank you!💛Sooo many brilliant reasons to love the state but I really enjoy the experiences here! The Columbia Gorge is uniquely beautiful. I’m crying already and hope you mention something about Hoodie! The description of the towns is grand to get to know them, for people who are curious. It sums up the important part of each town.

I would love to see you do Geographic profiles for Idaho and Maine.

I love the video, but you forgot to mention the Tilamook Creamery. They have the best ice cream in the state. And the cheese there is amazing.

Great video. Been here 26 years and just learned a lot I didn’t know! Thanks!!

You glossed over the Cascade Subduction Zone threat. We are due for a big earthquake all along that rift. We don’t get many EQ, but the ones we do get can be bad.

Thanks for covering my home state! As far as I can tell, all the information here is accurate! I really appreciate the fact that you didn't get political like sooooo many people do when they talk about Oregon.

I haven’t heard of Salem being part of the Portland metropolitan area. I live here.

Geo King back with another great video!

Just viewed, you sure know how to put the travel bug in me. Never been to Oregon but after viewing this diverse state its all hands on deck, gonna make it one of my port of calls this summer. As always good work Kyle.

I'm surprised you didn't d mention the eruption of Mount St Helena in the 80s, a huge volcanic eruption that covered downtown Portland in players of volcanic ash. I know the volcano is in Washington State, but it did impact Oregon a huge amount.

Drove along the coast several years ago, was blown away by the amazing scenery. Would love to live there one day, although the coastal real estate is astronomically expensive. :(

Super video. Greetings from Croatia!

I love how friendly the people of Burns aren’t

Ready to watch.

I would not say that Oregon is a strange state.. I have lived in this state since I was born 45 years ago.. I would say Oregon is very well diversified and cultured , and extremely unique state, however most certainly not strange... now A LOT of the people living here are just the living poster child of strange my dear friend , but most definitely not this beautiful state.. I have lived in all four corners of this state and central Oregon and could never tire of the landscapes now matter how many times I have seen it.. in the dessert, which is where was raised, after I was born in Medford Oregon ,and move to eastern Oregon just north of the steen's mountains..and it is a place I am glad pop moved us to when trailways was bought out and he lost his job driving 1-5 Medford to Portland run......I did however enjoy the video and you did a good job hitting all the good spot cept the steen's and keiger gorge... I am bummed about that .. one mile deep ditch carved in a mountain range in a very peculiar place for its existence in geology and make up. 👍☮️🚾........... P.S. alvord dessert...... K done now bye..........

I've visited Oregon 4 times now, and made incredible memories reach time. I loved Portland, Salem, Eugene, The Dalles, Camp Sherman, Sisters, Mount Hood, and several other small towns, peaks, waterfalls, and farms not mentioned.

Another great video Kyle! Great work!

I lived in Portland for almost ten years, I live in Murfreesboro, Tn now. Portland is my favorite city to visit and live in all the areas of the US that I have been to. I would move back in a heartbeat if I could. But as much as I love Portland I love the Oregon coast the most in Oregon. My favorite small town in Oregon is Yachats.

Great video, make sure to do Washington soon!

Excellent video Kyle! Both entertaining and informative. Hopefully you will do one on Washington state and then we can have the full Pacific Northwest experience. I always look forward to your videos. Keep up the good work!

We spent a few days at Seaside and Cannon Beach a few years ago when traveling from Seattle to San Francisco. Will definitely go back when the chance comes up

Aye, nice to see my home state get some attention.