The landscape around Cave Junction is a dry interior valley of oak woodland, farms and conifer-clad slopes, which has shaped both the town’s spread-out form and its links to agriculture, forestry and road travel. Set in Oregon’s Illinois Valley, the community lies along U.S. Route 199, the highway connecting Grants Pass with California’s Redwood Coast. The nearby Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve protects a marble cave system in the Siskiyou Mountains; its Oregon Caves Chateau, built in 1934, reflects the era of national-park lodge architecture. Explore related webcams across the Illinois Valley and southwest Oregon to gain a fuller impression of this borderland region.
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