Ancient Lava Country Where the High Desert Keeps Its Secrets

[Note: Boundaries on map viewer are approximate.] This is raw Oregon outback at its most honest. Forty acres of dissected high lava plateau where the earth tells stories in stonetuffaceous sedimentary rocks, palagonite breccia and tuff, mafic flows that hardened when this country was young and violent. The views stretch to Steens Mountain and beyond. Big sagebrush and bottlebrush squirreltail hold the high desert soil together while the wind writes its own rules across country that has never bent to human will. - 40 acres on dissected high lava plateauancient landscape - Steens Mountain in distance - Off Rattlesnake Creek Road in Malheur County - Southeast of Burns Junction, near Crooked Creek - Close to Gilbert Ranch and Anderson Reservoir - Annual property taxes: $59 - Elevation: 3,860 feet This is one of the remotest spots in Oregon. No power lines. No neighbors close enough to matter. Total off-the-grid solitude where a person can hear their own thoughts and nothing else but wind through sage and the distant call of hawks riding thermals above the lava breaks. The geological complexity tells the story of this land: flows and flow breccias, the remnants of when the earth was restless and fire shaped the high desert. Now it rests, patient and permanent, waiting for someone who understands that some places are meant to stay wild. - Complete off-grid solitude - Geological variety and complexity - Direct dirt road access - 5 miles to Interstate 95 - Priced to move for serious buyers The distances are honest ones. Two hours from Burns. Two and a half from Boise. Four and a half from Reno. Dirt roads lead directly to the property, though spring mud might test your resolve. Year-round access in this high desert climate where snow rarely stays but winters bite hard and clean. This is not gentle country. It demands respect. The summers burn hot and the winters freeze deep. But for those who hear the call of truly remote places, who find peace in landscapes that dwarf human ambition, this forty acres offers something the crowded world has forgotten. I am selling this land myself. Just one person who knows this country passing it to another who will respect it. Buyer responsible for all due diligence on access, utilities, and land use. The high desert waits. It has waited for millennia. It will wait a little longer.