Your Smith Rock State Park guide for hiking, rock climbing, trail running, mountain biking, slacklining, or horseback adventures.

The majesty of Smith Rock State Park is unique, even for the high desert of Oregon. The park covers over 650 acres and hovers around 3000 feet in elevation.The major rock faces are welded tuff, or compressed volcanic ash formed 30 million years ago. Find out about its geology, lore, wildlife, plants, how to get here and more below.

You can have a fire at Skull Hollow Campground, not at Smith Rock. There is one campground, 3 RV parks, and a public works RV dump station with a 15-mile radius of Smith Rock State Park. See maps and get links here.

Explore 650 acres and 12 official hiking trails in Smith Rock State Park. Choose from Easiest Trails to More Difficult Trails, to the Most Difficult Trails, or take one of our Suggested Hikes with all the round trip mileage figured out for you.

Smith Rock State Park can be tricky to find by just the signs. Located just 3 miles east of highway 97 from the tiny town of Terrebonne, there's a big brown state directional sign on the east side of the highway by the yellow highway light.

Central Oregon is an outdoor adventure hub and the nearby cities of Redmond, Bend, and Sisters have lots going on all year round. From hiking and kayaking to museums and brewery tours, these tourism promotion sites have it covered in great detail. We'll let them tell you more.

Smith Rock State Park has its own microclimate. Check the image from our webcam before you come out to see exactly what the weather is doing. The SmithRock.com webcam image updates every 5 minutes to provide an actual view of weather conditions as they develop.

The towering 350 foot spire of Monkey Face is an icon of Smith Rock State Park to all who see it. But its grinning face beckons climbers to challenge themselves on a multi-pitch mix of face, aid, thin cracks and overhanging arêtes on every route to the top .

Central Oregon is an outdoor adventure hub and the nearby cities of Redmond, Bend, and Sisters have lots going on all year round. From hiking and kayaking to museums and brewery tours, these tourism promotion sites have it covered in great detail. We'll let them tell you more.

They found over 40 burned out wagons, china, and the bones of 200 settlers that lost their lives in a battle with the Indians in the hostile territory that was Central Oregon.