Petersen Rock Garden - Redmond Oregon - A Visual Tour (33 photos)

This is another one of those places I've been meaning to visit but just had never made it to yet. So I finally chose a nice day and made my way out to the Petersen Rock Garden. So join along as I tour the grounds. 🚶

Rasmus Petersen began building his rock garden in 1935. From the parking area you can start to see some of his designs that sit on the 4 acre property. The building in the back right was once a cafe and by the 1950's there were over 100,000 visitors per year.

By 1974 250,000 people visited the Gardens. As it is today, there was no admission but donations were always encouraged.

A large piece of obsidian, quite prevalent in our area.

The gardens have gradually fallen into a bit of disrepair over the years, but in 2022 a new era of restoration was begun.

An antique logging wheel used to remove logs from the forest during the heyday of logging in the area.

The entrance to the museum building.

The courtyard outside the museum entrance.

Unfortunately the museum building was closed to the public this day. Just gives me another reason to return! 😃

A couple more of the many unique rocks found at the gardens. It is said that all the rocks came from an 85 mile radius around the farm.

Another giant mansion located on the grounds.

Rasmus Petersen was a Danish immigrant but seems to have had a special place in his heart for his adopted country as evidenced by this Statue of Liberty recreation.

Very wise words... especially for this oldmans!😁

A few more of the non standard type rocks. I really needed a geologist with me to help identify some of these. 😉

Two of the many peacocks roaming the grounds. While their beautiful tail feathers were gone for the season. The birds still had some amazing color.

Right after I took this picture of these fish one of the caretakers came up and was amazed to see them there. I guess a heron had been feasting on them and the caretaker thought they had removed them all from the pond. I guess the little fishes had some hiding places. 🙂 Caretaker went on his way to rescue more fish.

Did I mention there were many peacock on the grounds? 😜

That's it for now, hope you enjoyed the tour.

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Photos taken by me, @oldmans, with a Nikon D3300 and some Lightroom post processing.
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