Where to Find Jasper in Oregon
Oregon jasper is concentrated on the Owyhee plateau and along the Deschutes drainage, with secondary fields scattered across the southeast desert. Morrisonite, from the Owyhee River canyon, is among the most prized picture jaspers in the world, with brown, blue, and cream landscape patterns set in a hard chalcedony matrix. The Biggs jasper field east of The Dalles produces tan-brown picture jasper with dendritic inclusions, while Bruneau jasper from the Idaho-Oregon border slips into the same color family. Closer to Madras, the Priday and Richardson Ranch beds yield green and red jaspers alongside their thundereggs.
Spot list checked against source data on April 1, 2026.
Map of 36 jasper collecting spots in Oregon
Standout jasper spots in Oregon
Hand-picked from the full list below, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Hampton Butte
Deschutes County
Hampton Butte, north of Brothers in central Oregon, is the classic source of green petrified wood, where Eocene wood was replaced by jasper and chalcedony and tinted by copper and iron minerals.
Warm Springs Reservoir
Harney County
The high desert around Warm Springs Reservoir, on the Malheur River southeast of Burns, exposes weathered volcanic ground that yields agate, jasper, and petrified wood across public BLM land.
Agate Beach
Lincoln County
Agate Beach is named for the agates found along the Newport and Yaquina Head shoreline, and Oregon Sea Grant notes that winter storms expose the gravel beds that supply beach agates.
Beach Area Yachats
Lincoln County
The Yachats beach area sits on Oregon's central coast, where storm-reworked gravel can expose agate, chalcedony, jasper, and related beach material.
Quartzville Recreational Mining Corridor
Linn County
Quartzville Creek runs through a designated recreational mining corridor on BLM public land east of Sweet Home, where a stretch of the Wild and Scenic River is withdrawn from mineral entry but left open to casual prospecting.
Succor Creek General Area
Malheur County
Succor Creek is a remote canyon locality where Oregon State Parks identifies a haven for rock hounds and DOGAMI lists agate, jasper, and related chalcedony-family material from the area.
Best counties for jasper in Oregon
Ranked by the number of mapped jasper spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Lake County4 spots
- Curry County3 spots
- Jefferson County3 spots
- Lincoln County3 spots
- Malheur County3 spots
- Clatsop County2 spots
- Douglas County2 spots
- Lane County2 spots
- Tillamook County2 spots
- Wasco County2 spots
- Baker County1 spot
- Benton County1 spot
- Columbia County1 spot
- Crook County1 spot
- Deschutes County1 spot
- Grant County1 spot
- Harney County1 spot
- Jackson County1 spot
- Josephine County1 spot
- Linn County1 spot
Every jasper spot we track in Oregon
Sorted by county. Coordinates open in Google Maps.
Before you go
Read the jasper identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Jasper in the encyclopedia.
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