Warm Springs

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs—the Paiute and the Wasco—occupy a sun-kissed parcel characterized by forests of ponderosa pine and canyons with high rimrock. It is a landscape that is nothing short of stunning—a country of brooding solitary buttes, lonely pines, and untamed ravines, lorded over by the snowcapped spires of Mount Jefferson and Mount Hood. For a crash course in Oregon's thrilling contrasts, you could do no better. A singular museum and the popular desert resort of Kah-Nee-Ta provide cultural and economic bases for the tribes who live here.