OSU-Cascades offers campus tours to community groups

Published 2:07 pm Tuesday, May 27, 2025

: Oregon State University-Cascades in Bend.

Oregon State University-Cascades will continue its community tour program through 2025. Organizers recognize that the public is interested in the campus’s growing developments.

Free tours are for groups of 12 to 24 participants and will be offered monthly from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Registration is required.

The tour dates for the rest of the year are June 27, July 25, Aug. 22, Sept. 26, Oct. 24 and Nov. 21.

The staff member-guided tours include a classroom session on the history of the campus and the important role played by community members, the branch campus’s current offerings and the future vision for the campus. The tour will also include a walk through Edward J. Ray and Tykeson halls, where participants will learn about net zero energy and waste and water goals for the campus, and will view some of the campus’s public art.

Participants will also see the campus development underway, including land remediation efforts on the former pumice mine and demolition landfill. To arrange a group tour, please visit: osucascades.edu/community-connect.

About Noemi Arellano-Summer

Noemi Arellano-Summer is schools, youth and families reporter at the Bulletin. She previously reported on homelessness and the 2020 eviction moratorium with the Howard Center of Investigative Journalism through Boston University. She was raised in Long Beach, California, where she started her journalism career reporting for her high school newspaper. In her free time, she can be found meandering through a bookstore or writing short stories.

She can be reached at noemi.arellano-summer@bendbulletin.com and 541-383-0325.