Fort Rock
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Fort Rock is a tuff ring located on an ice age lake bed in north Lake County, Oregon, United States. The ring is about 4,460 feet in diameter and stands about 200 feet high above the surrounding plain
Aerial view of Fort Rock from the northeast.
Fort Rock looking east from the Fort Rock Road
Winter view looking northwest into open side
Fort Rock Cave
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Fort Rock Cave was the site of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the US state of Oregon before the excavation of the Paisley Caves. Fort Rock Cave featured numerous well-preserved sagebrush
Fort Rock
…Fort Rock is designated as Fort Rock State Natural Area (formerly Fort Rock State Park). A nearby tuff ring has a water-formed cave, called Fort Rock Cave, where in 1938 Luther Cressman from the University of Oregon discovered sagebrush sandals and human artifacts dated approximately 9,000 to 10,000 years…
University of Oregon archaeological excavations at Fort Rock Cave, 1966
Fort Rock sandals on display at the Oregon Historical Society