Table Rock is located in Sams Valley near Medford & Central
Point Oregon. Table Rock was a sanctuary for Takelma Indians.
There are two Table Rock mesas, an upper Table Rock and a Lower
Table Rock. Upper Table Rock is a bit shorter and slightly
easier to hike. Both are Open all year and No fee to hike them.
To Book a Tour call 541-618-2200
The Upper Table
Rock provides a wonderful hiking trail to the top of this
enormous flat rock. Spring time is the best to catch the best
flower and endangered wildflower displays and to avoid the heat.
The views are spectacular from the top. Here you can see the
most of Sams Valley and Rogue Valley south to Ashland and Mt
McLaughlin.
Hiking Upper Table Rock is a moderately
easy 2.8-mile trip, with a 720 foot gain. At the 1.1-mile point
there is a final steep pitch on the trail suddenly, then you
reach the table's amazingly flat summit. Although easy for some
to hike, we suggest you be in good health to hike it, especially
in the summer.
The Lower Table Rock trail is longer
and rockier, climbing through shadier woods. The path climbs,
steeply at times, after 1.6 miles the path suddenly crests at
the plateau and becomes an old road. Walk another 200 yards up
the road and fork left on a trail that ends at a 200-foot cliff
& viewpoint. Lower Table Rock was dedicated as a nature preserve
by The Nature Conservancy in 1979.
