Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway
High Desert Museum, OR

This nationally-acclaimed, hands-on museum presents a wide variety of indoor and outdoor exhibits that focus on nature, art, science, and history.

Outdoor highlights include daily birds-of-prey presentations, live otter and porcupine, a working, turn-of-the-century sawmill, and twenty acres of nature trails with trailside exhibits which focus on forestry and settlement.

One of the indoor exhibits is the "Earle A. Chiles Center on the Spirit of the West," which has two parts: first, dioramas on the history of the American West and secondly, permanent and changing galleries of Western and wildlife art and photography, and Native American artifacts.

Also indoors is the Desertarium, which showcases bats, kangaroo rats, burrowing owls, and other small and seldom-seen animals of the region.

New to the museum is the "Whose Home?" interactive exhibit for families and the "Strong Medicine: Two Centuries of High Desert Remedies" one-year exhibit on the often bizarre Western USA medical practices.