Booth State Scenic Corridor (also known as Booth State Wayside or Booth State Park) is a
state park
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in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
, administered by the
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD), officially known (in state law) as the State Parks and Recreation Department, is the government agency of the U.S. state of Oregon which operates its system of state parks. In addition, it has pro ...
.
History
Booth State Scenic Corridor was created from properties acquired by the State of Oregon between 1928 and 1944. The original property gift came from Robert A. Booth, who was president of the Oregon Land and Live Stock Company and former chairman of the
Oregon Highway Commission
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation. It was first established in 1969. It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway Depart ...
. Booth deeded the land to the state on 3 October 1928. Over the years, additional land was incorporated into the scenic corridor. Today, the wayside corridor includes . The land is located in eight parcels along
Oregon Route 140
Oregon Route 140 (OR 140) is a state highway in southern Oregon, United States. It is the longest state highway in Oregon, running from the community of White City, Oregon (just north of Medford), through Klamath Falls and on to Lakeview. It ...
, approximately west of
Lakeview, Oregon
Lakeview is a town in Lake County, Oregon, United States. The population was 2,418 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Lake County. The city bills itself as the "Tallest Town in Oregon" because of its elevation, above sea level. Lak ...
.
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''Find a Park'', Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Salem, Oregon, 10 October 2014.[Armstrong, Chester H., ''History of the Oregon State Parks, 1917-1963'', Oregon State Highway Department, State Printer, Salem, Oregon, 1965, pp. 96-97.][Merriam, Lawrence C. and David G. Talbot, ''Oregon's Highway Park System 1921-1989, An Administrative History'', Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Salem, Oregon, 1992, pp. 157-158.]
The scenic corridor was developed in the 1930s with the help of the
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...
. During that period, a wayside picnic area and six camp sites was built along with an access road and a small parking area.
Today vault toilets have been added and overnight camping has been discontinued. As of 2013, the annual day-use count was approximately 14,080 visitors per year.
Environment
The scenic corridor land in covered with medium density
conifer
Conifers are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single ...
forests, predominantly
ponderosa pine
''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the ...
and
western juniper
''Juniperus occidentalis'', known as the western juniper, is a shrub or tree native to the Western United States, growing in mountains at altitudes of and rarely down to . It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because it is a widesp ...
.
Wildlife in the area includes
mule deer
The mule deer (''Odocoileus hemionus'') is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule. Two subspecies of mule deer are grouped into the black-tailed deer.
Unlike the related whit ...
,
coyote
The coyote (''Canis latrans'') is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecologica ...
s, and
cougar
The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large Felidae, cat native to the Americas. Its Species distribution, range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mamm ...
s.
See also
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List of Oregon state parks
References
External links
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State parks of Oregon
Parks in Lake County, Oregon
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