Union Creek Historic District near the upper Rogue River in

Union Creek, Oregon Union Creek is an unincorporated community in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located along Union Creek and Oregon Route 62 (Crater Lake Highway), about from Crater Lake National Park. The community is home to the Union Cre ...

, is listed on the U.S.

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for rustic structures built by the

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(CCC) in the 1930s. The site lies along Oregon Route 62 and the upper Rogue River, about north of

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and about west of Crater Lake. Buildings in the district include a CCC picnic shelter and

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, the Union Creek Resort lodge, a grocery store, cabins, restaurant, and an ice cream shop; all retain an early 20th-century appearance. Activities in the area include hiking, fishing, and horseback riding, as well as snow-tubing and sledding in the winter. According to a short essay included on the back of the menu at Beckie's Cafe, one of the buildings at Union Creek, the site was a popular camping spot in the early 1900s. It lay along the wagon road between the Rogue Valley further downstream and Crater Lake and points east. By the 1920s, the Union Creek Resort, which had a central lodge and guest cabins, had been built on the site. The original lodge burned down in 1937 and was replaced a year later by the one still in use in 2010.Chapman, Barbara. "Menu". Beckie's Cafe The community took its name from a local stream, Union Creek. The creek was named after

Union Peak Union Peak is a heavily eroded shield volcano in the Cascade Range of central Oregon, located along the Cascade Crest less than southwest of the rim of Crater Lake. Ice age glaciers eroded away most of the flanks of the volcano, leaving nume ...

Crater Lake National Park Crater Lake National Park is an American national park located in southern Oregon. Established in 1902, Crater Lake is the fifth-oldest national park in the United States and the only national park in Oregon. The park encompasses the caldera of ...

.McArthur, pp. 982–83

References

Works cited

*McArthur, Lewis A., and McArthur, Lewis L. (2003)

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''Oregon Geographic Names'', 7th ed. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. .

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Union Creek Resort
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