Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, USA. It is near the California boarder and located south of the Rogue Valley. Ashland is well-known for its annual Oregon Shakespeare Festival that brings thousands of tourists to the city each year. Other than the OSF, Ashland also has the Cabaret Theater and Independent Film Festival which features musical and films every year. Ashland is also known for its parks and recreation areas. This includes Lithia Park which is more than 92 acres, that has two ponds, a Japanese garden, tennis courts, public greens, outdoor stage, and hiking trails. Population in Ashland increases at 2.8% from last year, totaling to 20,078 according to U.S Decennial Census.   Statistics from August - October 2011     89.4% of the residential properties that sold ... 11/24/2011

Did you know Route 66  winds its way right through Southern Oregon?  It was such a wonderful Autumn Day, with temperatures in the high 70's. We were chomping at the bit to get out of the house and enjoy this day. What better destination to have than no destination at all? Having communicated earlier in the week with Diarmuid McGuire, owner of the Green Springs Inn located about 10 miles South of Ashland Oregon (the McGuires are back!), we thought we would start our meanderings in that direction, and head down Route 66 to see what Fall Foliage we might experience along the way.      The scrub oak are presenting their fabulous colors, coating entire hillsides with their rusty color palate.    The groves of birch trees we found after looping out around Hyatt Lake and Howard Prairie Lake ma... 10/27/2008

It was a beautiful day to go sledding, and we weren't the only Southern Oregon residents to think so!  We headed off to our favorite sledding hill at Table Mountain Winter Play Area just across from Hyatt Lake. This is one of our favorite family time day trips for many reasons. Only 20 miles from Ashland, Oregon, off Hwy 66 to Dead Indian Memorial Road to the turnoff to Howard Prairie/Hyatt Lake, its location cannot be beat.                                The roads are well maintained, although sometimes a little icy with the gorgeous pines in this forest shading the roads. Once you turn off to go up to the snow park, you will traverse .7 miles on top of the packed snow. We attempted it once in our Honda Civic, but even with chains on, could not make the grade once we turned on to the e... 01/13/2008