Casey State Recreation Site is a day-use only
state park
State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural ...
located 29 miles northeast of
Medford, Oregon
Medford is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census on April 1, 2020, the city had a total population of 85,824 and a metropolitan area population of 223,259, making the Me ...
off
Oregon Route 62
Oregon Route 62 is an Oregon state highway that runs between the city of Medford, and U.S. Route 97 between Chiloquin and Klamath Falls. The highway approaches Crater Lake National Park from the south, and is known as the Crater Lake Highway. W ...
.
The parks offers picnic and boating facilities, as well as access to the
Rogue River. It is located on the
Crater Lake Highway and is a popular salmon fishing area.
The land for the park was leased from the federal government in 1932 and purchased in 1937. At the time of the lease, there were two
residents on the land. One of them, James Allen Casey (J.A. Casey or "Jack" Casey), who was born in Kansas, had built a small restaurant and tourist camp, called Casey's Auto Camp. James Allen Casey believed he had homesteaded the land, many years before it was "discovered" to be federal land. (
ames "Jack" Casey was directly
descended from John Wallace—Sir John Wallace [Sir John—Brother of William "Braveheart" Wallace—Laird of Elderslie, 1273-1306 who
was executed for essentially the same reason, and in the same way,
as his father and brother William were before him.])
Since the residents did not then own the land, they were granted three-year leases. The Civilian Conservation Corps improved the existing facilities; adding a parking lot, more tables, individual stoves, a boat ramp,
and trails.
See also
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List of Oregon state parks
References
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External links
Casey State Recreation Site Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
State parks of Oregon
Parks in Jackson County, Oregon
Rogue River (Oregon)
Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon
1932 establishments in Oregon
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