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The Portland metropolitan area, including suburbs, is one of the few places in the continental US to have a extinct volcanoes within a cities limits; Bend, Oregon is another..


OREGON VENTS

  • Chamberlain Hill - Elevation 980 feet

  • Cook's Butte - Elevation 718 feet

  • Kelly Butte - Elevation 590 feet

  • Mount Scott - Elevation 1,050 feet

  • Mount Tabor - Elevation 641 feet (center of a large multi-use Portland city park)

  • Powell Butte - Elevation 620 feet

  • Rocky Butte - Elevation 612 feet (stone tower with outstanding view of Portland)

  • Ross Mountain - Elevation 1,380 feet

  • Swede Hill - Elevation 995 feet

  • TV Hill - Elevation 1,275 feet

  • Walker Peak - Elevation 2,450 feet



WASHINGTON VENTS

  • Battleground Lake - Elevation 750 feet (miniature crater lake)

  • Bob's Mountain - Elevation 2,110 feet (contains intact summit crater)

  • Brunner Hill - Elevation 680 feet

  • Green Mountain - Elevation 804 feet (logged off during the First World War )

  • Mount Norway - Elevation 1,111 feet

  • Mount Pleasant - Elevation 1,010 feet

  • Mount Zion - Elevation 1465 feet

  • Nichol's Hill - Elevation 1,113 feet

  • Pohl's Hill - Elevation 1,395 feet

  • Prune Hill - Elevation 610 feet (overlooks Camas, Washington )



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USGS Map of Boring Lava Field


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