A post about Post (Oregon)

This is a post about Post.  You don't get to write that sentence very often.  So even though this isn't directly about Cottage Grove, well, I just couldn't resist.  Besides I live in Cottage Grove, so isn't that enough?

Post is the geographic center of Oregon.  It is about 25 miles east of Prineville.  If you go there, do not take the road to the Prineville Reservoir or you will find, 14 miles down the road, a dead end into a "resort" located there.   That means if you didn't want to be there, you have to go back 14 miles, making it a total of 28 miles out of your way before you can even begin to go 25 more miles out of your way to get to Post.

As you can see from the picture, there is a Post Post Office, located in the Post General Store and Tavern, in front of which, you may notice, is a Post engraved with the word Post.  It's Post's Post.  

All there is in Post is the Post General Store and Tavern, which has the Post Post Office, the Post Gas Station,  the Post Tavern and the Post picnic grounds which are along the banks of the Crooked River, where a bit down the road we saw swans.  Wild swans.

If you try to search for Post, Oregon in Google maps you don't get Post, Oregon. Instead you get a whole list of Post Offices in Oregon, but not Post's Post Office, at least not in the first 10 pages.  By then VFW Posts started showing up so I knew I was getting off track.

However, by then I had seen the listing for the Cottage Grove Post Office.  I also saw listings for Post's surrounding post offices in Redmond, Prineville, Madras, and Bend, but no listing for Post's Post Office.

The Post General Store and Tavern is for sale.  Note the impressive display of elk heads along the wall.  That picture shows only half of them.  There are more.  Anyway here is your chance to live out your fantasy of running an old fashioned general store.  

And here was my chance to post about Post.

One last thing.  When I was in the Post Post Office, I sent a picture postcard of Post to a friend of mine who used to work with me at a place called the Post. No kidding. 

And now I will end my Post post.