Rooster Rock State Park
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Rooster Rock is the name of a column of basalt, a natural obelisk, which stands near the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, in the lee of Crown Point. The island or sand bar that accompanies it is Rooster Rock State Park.
A large placard near the park's entrance asserts (or once did) that the monolith was noted by the explorers Lewis and Clark in their journal, and that "the name is phallic in origin". To put it rather less politely, the column's original name was "Cock Rock". It is unclear whether the noble explorers themselves named it, or if that happened later. Either way, plain-speaking Oregonians still call it by that name.
A portion of the park is designated as a clothing-optional beach, with no apparent irony intended on the part of state park officials.
See also
External links
- Rooster Rock State Park
- One of many sites about Rooster Rock
- Oregon Clothing Optional Beach Alliance - Info about clothing optional section of Rooster Rock beach
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