Boring is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is located along Oregon Route 212 in the foothills of the Cascade mountain range, approximately twelve miles (19 km) southeast of downtown Portland, and fourteen miles (23 km) northeast of Oregon City. A bedroom community, Boring is named after William Harrison Boring, a Union soldier and pioneer whose family built a farm in the area in 1856, before Oregon had received statehood.
Cyclists at the west entrance to Boring on Oregon Route 212
Interior of trains operating through Boring, 1907
Sign in Dull, Scotland
View of Mount Hood from Boring
Clackamas County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City. The county was named after the native people living in the area at the time of the coming of Europeans, the Clackamas people, who are part of the Chinookan peoples.
Image: Willamette Falls from drone
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Image: Spire of the Portland Oregon Temple, 2018
Image: Clackamas County Courthouse (Clackamas County, Oregon scenic images) (clac D0034)