High Desert Museum

How fascinating, yet chilling to have a golden eagle watch you from just a few feet away. It’s an experience found in few places, but it happens daily at the High Desert Museum near Bend, Oregon. This 135-acre campus, in the Deschutes National Forest, is a living, participation-oriented museum that explores the cultural and natural history of an eight-state intermountain region known as the High Desert. (If you’re counting, it’s a history that spans 10,000 years.) Almost 53,000 square f