Bend is a city in Central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located to the east of the Cascade Range, on the Deschutes River.
View of Pilot Butte from downtown, 2022
View of downtown Bend, c. 1920
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in 1922
The last remaining Blockbuster in the world, on Route 20 and Revere Ave
Central Oregon is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Oregon and is traditionally considered to be made up of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Other definitions include larger areas, often encompassing areas to the north towards the Columbia River, eastward towards Burns, or south towards Klamath Falls. These three counties have a combined population of 200,431 as of the 2010 census, with Deschutes the largest of the three counties, having approximately four times the population of the other two counties combined. As of 2015, the most populous city in the region is Bend, with an estimated 87,014 residents. As defined by the three county definition, Central Oregon covers 7,833 square miles (20,290 km2) of land. Central Oregon has had 3 record tourism years beginning in 2012. Over 2.2 million people visited Central Oregon in 2012 and again in 2013.
Panorama of Prineville in Crook County, and the Ochoco Mountains.
The Metolius River near Camp Sherman.
The Oregon Badlands Wilderness.
Newberry caldera at the Newberry National Volcanic Monument.