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Hidden Oregon (Hidden Oregon, 3rd ed)

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I was an Oregonian all my life until a few years ago, and was raised in the southern Oregon area. When I read the book, I was carefully examining the part about southern Oregon. I noticed that a very interesting part of southern Oregon wasn't mentioned, and the is the Vortex (also known as the House of Mystery) in Gold Hill, a small town about 12 miles outside of Medford, the main town in southern Oregon. This is a spot that was so interesting that even Albert Einstein corresponded with someone about it. The "House of Mystery" doesn't refer to a haunting, but is an old shack that slid down an embankment during a mud slide during the gold mining days. You enter the "house", and things such as what looks like it should run uphill runs downhill, a certain part where people that are taller appear shorter, etc. Animals avoid the area, which ought to say something. Now, I haven't seen references to it in other travel books except for one, and then it was only one sentence long. For a book detailing the "hidden" things to look for in Oregon, this is one place to visit.
Otherwise, the book is very good on detailing the eastern part of the state, and is accurate about the demographics (my aunt lived almost all her life in eastern Oregon). Compared to other books on traveling Oregon, I would recommend this one.