Oregon is replete with beautiful towns, and some of them boast especially gorgeous downtowns.

The website WorldAtlas recently highlighted seven such towns for their “picture-perfect main streets.”

The WorldAtlas picks represent a large swath of our state, from Silverton and Cottage Grove in the Willamette Valley, to Newport on the coast, to Jacksonville and Ashland in southern Oregon, to Pendleton and Baker City in eastern Oregon.

Here’s a bit of what WorldAtlas had to say about the main drags in each of these seven towns …

“ Silverton has a downtown that looks like it is off the pages of a storybook with a picture-perfect Main Street. Informally known as “Mural City,” there are over 30 murals scattered throughout the downtown.”

“ Cottage Grove is a town that lives up to its name

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