Welcome Aboard! Only "questioning the answers" must make you very popular
Take a look at Forum: Oregon for information (i.e., clubs, etc.) directly related to your state.
Welcome neighbor, I now reside in Georgia (retired military) but my family was in Milton Freewater. I presently have relations in Weston. Lot of old log structures up on the hill that would be a good place to adventure with a detector. PM me and I will tell u their last name.
Welcome from Northern California...!
I had to look at my Atlas of Oregon, to find you!
WoW! You live right at the base of mountains.....!
Gold, and History awaits you...!
La Grande, take a short drive to a little burg named Baker and that was where I was hatched. Go a bit further to a metropolis called Durkee and that is where I went to school and we had a ranch back in the hills there.