Launching Soon · A Field Guide

At the Foot of Smith Rock

A new dispatch from Terrebonne, Oregon — the small town that opens onto the canyon, the climbers, and one of the most photographed views in the West.

Photo: Venti Views / Unsplash · Smith Rock at golden hour
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A Smith Rock Dispatch

The town is quiet. The canyon isn't.

A few hundred feet past the post office, the road bends and the rock appears — orange, vertical, a wall of welded tuff that's been pulling climbers from around the world since the 1980s.

Terrebonne is the small Deschutes County town at the gateway to Smith Rock State Park, the birthplace of American sport climbing. It's also a working community along the Crooked River — a quiet main street, a few cafés the climbers know about, and some of the oldest lava-formed views in Central Oregon.

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A climber moving up a brown rock face at Smith Rock State Park
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The Rock

1,800+ routes above the Crooked River. The Misery Ridge loop, Monkey Face, and golden walls at last light.

Photo: Sean Benesh / Unsplash

A bridge spanning a deep river canyon — the kind of view from the Peter Skene Ogden viewpoint
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The Gorge

The Crooked River cuts a 300-foot canyon at the Peter Skene Ogden bridge — one of the most underrated overlooks in Oregon.

Photo: Joerg Breuer / Unsplash

A range of high-desert mountains rising behind quiet open country — Terrebonne's backyard
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The Town

A handful of streets, a feed store, a couple of good cafés. A 20-minute drive to the Redmond airport and a different pace.

Photo: Aung / Unsplash

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