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Watching the sun set from your living room window is nice, but nothing compares to a sunset at the Oregon coast or the Cascade Mountains.

However, Oregonians, like many other people around the world, remain isolated at home due to the coronavirus outbreak that has forced Gov. Kate Brown to prohibit all non-essential travel.



That doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy an Oregon sunset from afar.

This week, I dug through the archives and gathered 20 beautiful sunset photos from around the state, to tide us over until we can get back out there.

These photos come from every corner of the state. There are brilliant colors from the Pacific Ocean, pastel pinks in the high desert and mountains painted radiant gold. They come from many evenings spent sitting beside lakes, hiking through forests and wandering along the beach.

I hope they can bring you a little bit closer to memories of your own past trips, and inspire dreams of future adventures in Oregon. At very least, allow yourself to bask in the beauty of our spectacular corner of the world, if only for a moment.

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The sun sets over Haystack Rock and the beach at Cannon Beach, creating a colorful scene in the surf and sky.

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Mount Hood is painted with color at dusk, seen from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy.

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An evening storm rolls over Hells Canyon at the Hat Point Overlook in the northeast corner of Oregon.

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The sun sets over the Alvord Desert, a seasonally dry lake bed in the remote southeast corner of Oregon.

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A winter sunset in downtown Astoria, at the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River.

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The setting sun frames a gull perched on a rock at Sunset Bay on the southern Oregon coast.

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The sun sets over Powell Butte Nature Park at the end of a warm summer day.

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The sun sets over Goose Lake, a 147-square-mile lake that straddles the border of Oregon and California near the southern Oregon town of Lakeview.

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Tyler Mapes, a budding 11-year-old astronomer, looks out to the horizon as the sun sets over Rooster Rock State Park during a spring equinox star party.

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The sun sets over The Cove Palisades State Park near Madras in central Oregon, with Mount Hood in the distance.

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The wreck of the Peter Iredale is sunk in the sand, as the sun sets and the tide is out at Fort Stevens State Park on the north Oregon coast.

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A road leading to the summit of Steens Mountain in southeast Oregon is painted with the golden light of dusk.

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A sunbeam breaks through the clouds at dusk, over Hells Canyon in the northeast corner of Oregon.

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Clouds enshroud Mount Hood as the sun sets over Timothy Lake.

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People gather at Council Crest Park in southwest Portland, as the sun sets over Mount St. Helens.

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The sun sets behind clouds above Gull Rock at Otter Crest Beach on the central Oregon coast.

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A gull trots along the beach during a late fall sunset over Cape Meares Beach near Tillamook on the Oregon coast.

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The sun sets over the road just north of the small town of Imnaha, found within the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.

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The sun sets over Mount McLoughlin at Hyatt Lake in southern Oregon.

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The sun sets over the hills just south of downtown Ashland.

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--Jamie Hale; jhale@oregonian.com; 503-294-4077; @HaleJamesB

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