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Lane County, community by community.

"Eugene-Springfield" is not a useful answer when you are deciding where to live. Here is the actual map, with what each place is really like.

Where I focus

The three I know best.

Thurston, Oregon

Thurston

The east end, where Springfield still feels like a town

Thurston was a town before it was a neighborhood, and it still carries itself that way. There was a post office here in 1877, a general store and a…

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Pleasant Hill, Oregon

Pleasant Hill

Acreage country, fifteen minutes from everything

Pleasant Hill is the answer for people who want land without giving up their life. It sits southeast of Springfield along Highway 58, close enough…

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Springfield, Oregon

Springfield

A working town with a river through it

Springfield started with a spring in a field on the Briggs family claim in 1848, got its mill race hand-dug in 1852, and spent the next century as a…

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Everywhere else

The rest of the county.

Gateway

North Springfield, close to everything practical

Gateway is the north end of Springfield, built up around the commercial corridor near the interstate and the medical center. If…

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Glenwood

The riverfront strip between two cities

Glenwood is the narrow piece of Springfield that sits between Eugene and the rest of Springfield, wrapped around the Willamette.…

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Mohawk Valley

Farm country ten minutes north of town

Head north out of Springfield on Marcola Road and the subdivisions stop quickly. The Mohawk Valley opens up into pasture, timber,…

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Marcola

Small town, big timber, covered bridges

Marcola sits at the top of the Mohawk Valley, a timber community that has kept its own school district and its own identity. The…

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Walterville

The first stop up the McKenzie

Head east on the McKenzie Highway past Thurston and Walterville is the first real community you come to. It is river country:…

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Leaburg

River life, up the canyon

Leaburg is further up the McKenzie, where the valley narrows and the river becomes the whole point. The Leaburg Dam and the fish…

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Vida

Covered bridge country on the McKenzie

Vida is a scattering of homes and river properties along the McKenzie, best known to outsiders for the Goodpasture Covered Bridge,…

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Blue River

Rebuilding, upriver

Blue River sits far up the McKenzie, close to the reservoirs and the national forest. The 2020 Holiday Farm Fire hit this…

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McKenzie Bridge

Where the highway meets the mountains

McKenzie Bridge is the last community before the highway climbs into the Cascades. It is a basecamp: for the McKenzie River Trail,…

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Jasper

Rural, quiet, and closer than you think

Jasper is a small rural community along the Middle Fork southeast of Springfield, close to Pleasant Hill and sharing a lot of its…

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Dexter

Lakeside, on the way to the mountains

Dexter is built around its reservoir on Highway 58, a small community where the lake is the center of gravity. Boats in the…

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Lowell

A small town between two lakes

Lowell is an actual incorporated town, small and tidy, sitting between Dexter Reservoir and Lookout Point Lake. It has a school, a…

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Fall Creek

Creek country, off the highway

Fall Creek runs north off Highway 58 into a valley of small farms, timber, and the Fall Creek Reservoir. It is genuinely rural,…

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Oakridge

Mountain bike capital of the Northwest

Oakridge is a former timber town at the foot of the Cascades that reinvented itself around trails. It has hundreds of miles of…

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Westfir

The Office Bridge and not much else, which is the point

Westfir is tiny, a former mill town next to Oakridge best known for the Office Covered Bridge, the longest covered bridge in…

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Goshen

The junction south of town

Goshen sits where Highway 58 meets I-5 south of Eugene, a small unincorporated community that most people know as a turn rather…

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Creswell

Small town on the interstate, ten minutes from Eugene

Creswell is a small city on I-5 just south of the metro that has grown steadily because the math works: you get a real downtown, a…

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Cottage Grove

Covered bridge capital with a real main street

Cottage Grove is far enough south to be its own place rather than a bedroom community, and it acts like it. Historic downtown,…

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Dorena

Lake country east of Cottage Grove

The Dorena you drive through today is not where Dorena started. In 1946 the Army Corps began building the dam, and the town was…

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Lorane

Back roads, vineyards, and elbow room

Lorane sits in the hills southwest of Eugene, reached by winding roads through farm and timber country. It is wine country in…

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Eugene

The city next door, with a neighborhood for everyone

Eugene is the bigger half of the metro and a genuinely varied city. The university sets a tone, the river runs through the middle…

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South Eugene

Trees, hills, and the trailhead at the end of the street

South Eugene climbs into the hills below Spencer Butte, and the further up you go the more the city disappears into the trees.…

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Santa Clara

North Eugene, practical and established

Santa Clara sits on the north end of Eugene, a settled area of established neighborhoods, schools, and shopping that was county…

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River Road

Along the water on the north end

River Road runs north along the Willamette, a corridor of older neighborhoods, small farms that have been swallowed by the city,…

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Bethel

West Eugene, with its own school district

Bethel is west Eugene, and it has its own school district, which shapes a lot about how people talk about it. The housing runs…

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Churchill

Southwest Eugene, settled and convenient

The Churchill area covers southwest Eugene, established neighborhoods built largely in the postwar decades around the high school…

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Whiteaker

The most walkable, most opinionated neighborhood in town

The Whiteaker is Eugene's oldest neighborhood and its most distinctive, a compact grid of small older homes, breweries,…

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Cal Young

North Eugene, established and central

The Cal Young area sits north of the river in Eugene, a settled part of town with established neighborhoods, easy Beltline access,…

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Veneta

Country living twenty minutes west

Veneta sits west of Eugene on Highway 126 toward the coast range, a small city that was platted in 1912 and incorporated in 1962…

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Elmira

Small, rural, and next door to the lake

Elmira is the smaller community just north of Veneta, rural and unincorporated, with farm ground, small acreage, and easy access…

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Junction City

Farm country with a Danish accent

Junction City got its name from railroad magnate Ben Holladay, who expected the east-side and west-side rail lines through the…

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Coburg

A historic district with an interstate exit

Coburg is small, old, and genuinely charming, a town of nineteenth-century buildings with a National Register historic district,…

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Noti

Out past Fern Ridge, headed for the coast

Noti is a small rural community west of Veneta on the highway toward the coast, surrounded by timber and farm ground. It is…

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Crow

Farm valleys southwest of the city

Crow is farm country southwest of Eugene, a scattering of homes and working ground along Territorial Highway with its own school.…

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Florence

The county on the ocean

Florence is Lane County's coastal city, an hour and change west of Eugene where the Siuslaw River meets the Pacific. It has an Old…

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Mapleton

River country between the valley and the sea

Mapleton sits on the Siuslaw River east of Florence, a small community in the coast range surrounded by timber. It is the halfway…

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