Rogue River Gorge, Oregon

The mouth of the Rogue River in the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach, Oregon

The Rogue River is located in southwest Oregon. It begins in the Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness Area and at Boundary Springs within Crater Lake National Park, runs through Grants Pass, Oregon, and reaches the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach, Oregon. The river runs 215 miles (344 km), of which 84 miles (134 km) is a designated National Wild and Scenic River and 40 miles (64 km) is in the remote canyon. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x681, 982 KB) Description: Rogue River, Oregon, USA File links The following pages link to this file: Rogue River (Oregon) ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x681, 982 KB) Description: Rogue River, Oregon, USA File links The following pages link to this file: Rogue River (Oregon) ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 539 pixel Image in higher resolution (1500 × 1011 pixel, file size: 452 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Rogue River (Oregon... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 539 pixel Image in higher resolution (1500 × 1011 pixel, file size: 452 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Rogue River (Oregon... Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 9th  - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 2. ... Crater Lake is a caldera lake in the U.S. state of Oregon. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Gold Beach is a city located in, and the county seat of Curry County, OregonGR6. ... National Wild and Scenic River is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States. ...

The river, with its exciting Grade IV rapids, is popular among white-water rafters; it is also heavily used by jet boats, which carry 114,000 passengers a year on journeys covering up to 104 miles (167 km) of the river's length. Both are regulated, with a permit system in place for rafters, but the increasing recreational use (federal river managers counted 700,000 visitors in 1991) has led to further limits on the section designated as Wild and Scenic. The International Scale of River Difficulty is a standardized scale used to rate the safety of a stretch of river, usually a single rapid. ... Rafting is a recreational activity utilizing a raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. ... A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The 40-mile (64 km) Rogue River Trail runs parallel to the river from Grave Creek to Illahe.

Lost Creek Reservoir was created on the Rogue.

Map of the Rogue River area

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• Joseph Stewart State Park
• Casey State Recreation Site
• Valley of the Rogue State Park
• Hellgate Recreation Area
• Rogue River National Recreation Trail
• TouVelle State Recreation Site

Casey State Park is a day-use only state park located 29 miles northeast of Medford, Oregon off Oregon Highway 62. ... TouVelle State Recreation Site is located in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, nine miles north of Medford, where Table Rock Road crosses the Rogue River. ...

Trivia

• The American author Zane Grey made this river the basis of his 1929 novel Rogue River Feud.

• In 1940, actress Ginger Rogers purchased a ranch between Shady Cove and Eagle Point along the Rogue River, just north of Medford. It had an area of 1000 acres (4 km²). Rogers lived at the ranch (named the "4-R's" for "Rogers' Rogue River Ranch") with her mother for 50 years when she was not acting in Hollywood. The ranch was also a dairy, and would supply milk for the war effort during World War II to Camp White. Rogers loved to fish the Rogue every summer. She sold the ranch in 1990, and moved to Medford.

• The American film The River Wild was filmed on the Rogue River.

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. ... See also: 1928 in literature, other events of 1929, 1930 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ranching. ... Shady Cove is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. ... Eagle Point is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. ... Medford is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. ... Dairy farm near Oxford, New York A dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk (mostly from cows, sometimes from buffalo, sheep or goats) and other farm animals, for human consumption. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Camp White was an Army training base in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, during World War II. It was also the site of a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. ... The River Wild is a 1994 American thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, and Joseph Mazzello. ...

See also

• List of Oregon rivers
• Rogue River National Forest (extends from Oregon into California)

The following is a partial listing of rivers in the state of Oregon, United States of America. ... The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest is a United States National Forest located on both sides of the border between the states of Oregon and California. ...

External links

• Rogue National Wild and Scenic River
• Guide to floating the Rogue from the Bureau of Land Management