Mount Scott

Mount Scott is a volcanic cinder cone in the Portland area, rising 1,091 feet in Clackamas County as part of the ancient Boring Lava Field that formed many of the city’s smaller volcanic hills. Named for Oregonian editor Harvey W. Scott, who owned acreage on its north and west slopes, it later became heavily developed, with part of its southern flank in Happy Valley and the Willamette National Cemetery on its northeastern slope extending into Multnomah County. Its history also includes a troubling period in the 1920s, when Oregon’s Ku Klux Klan used the site for a so-called perpetual cross burning and held motor parades nearby.

Happy Valley, Oregon · United States