18 Facts About Bend Oregon

Bend Oregon is located on the eastern edge of the Cascade Range along the Deschutes River.

Name "Bend Oregon" was derived from "Farewell Bend Oregon", the designation used by early pioneers to refer to the location along the Deschutes River where the town was eventually platted, one of the few fordable points along the river.

The settlement was originally called "Farewell Bend Oregon", which was later shortened to "Bend Oregon" by the United States Post Office Department.

In 1929, Bend Oregon amended the charter and adopted the council–manager form of government.

Just south of Bend is Newberry National Volcanic Monument on U S Route 97.

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Bend Oregon's climate is typical of the high desert with cool nights and sunny days, classified as semi-arid.

Bend's growing season is short; according to the U S Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service, in half of the years between 1971 and 2000, the USDA weather station in Bend recorded the last below-freezing temperatures after July 3 and the first below-freezing temperatures before August 31.

Bend, Oregon depends on $7 million in the room tax income that essentially funds services for Streets, Fire, and Police.

Bend Oregon is home to the Deschutes Brewery, the eighth-largest craft brewery in the nation and the largest of over a dozen microbreweries in the city.

Bend Oregon has become a commuter town for a number of tech workers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle metropolitan area despite the extreme commute, due to its appeal to the outdoors as well as its relatively cheap cost of living compared to the skyrocketing rent and housing prices of the Bay Area and Seattle.

Bend Oregon is home to the Bend Oregon Elks of the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League.

Bend Oregon has had success in landing major sporting events such as the 2008 and 2009 USA Winter Triathlon National Championships, the 2008 and 2009 XTERRA Trail Running National Championships, the 2009 and 2010 United States National Cyclo-cross Championships, the 2009 and 2010 USA Cycling Elite Road National Championships and the 2013, 2015 and 2016 USA Cross Country Championships.

In 2019 and 2020, Bend Oregon hosted USA Climbing's pro and youth National Bouldering Championships.

Bend Oregon was recently named the top mountain bike city in Mountain Bike Action magazine.

Several significant general aviation companies are based at Bend Oregon Airport, including Precise Flight, which develops oxygen systems, speed brakes, landing lights and other modifications for general aviation aircraft, and Epic Aircraft.

Bend Oregon was previously the only metropolitan area west of the Mississippi River without a public bus system.

In 2016, Bend Oregon adopted the Transportation System Plan, which is a 20-year plan that strives to achieve a healthy, equitable future for the entire community.

Part of Ride Bend Oregon's study was to see whether people prefer sharing rides to get to their destination over fixed bus routes.