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{{short description|State park in the U.S. state of Oregon}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
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| type = Public, state
| location = [[Jackson County, Oregon|Jackson County]], [[Oregon]]
| nearest_city = [[Medford, Oregon|Medford]]
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| operator = [[Oregon Parks and Recreation Department]]
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'''Casey State Recreation Site''' is a day-use only [[state park]] located 29 miles northeast of [[Medford, Oregon]] off [[Oregon Route 62]].<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=1156318 |name=Casey State Park|access-date=2011-06-26}}</ref> The parks offers picnic and boating facilities, as well as access to the [[Rogue River (Oregon)|Rogue River]]. It is located on the [[Oregon Route 62|Crater Lake Highway]] and is a popular salmon fishing area.

The land for the park was leased from the federal government in 1932 and purchased in 1937. At the time of the lease, there were two [[Squatting|residents]] on the land. One of them, James Allen Casey (J.A. Casey or "Jack" Casey), who was born in Kansas, had built a small restaurant and tourist camp, called Casey's Auto Camp. James Allen Casey believed he had homesteaded the land, many years before it was "discovered" to be federal land.   ([James "Jack" Casey was directly
descended from John Wallace—Sir John Wallace [Sir John—Brother of William "Braveheart" Wallace—Laird of Elderslie, 1273-1306], who was executed for essentially the same reason, and in the same way,
as his father and brother William were before him.])

Since the residents did not then own the land, they were granted three-year leases. The [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] improved the existing facilities; adding a parking lot, more tables, individual stoves, a boat ramp,
and trails.<ref>{{cite book |first=Chester H |last=Armstrong |title=Oregon State Parks: History, 1917-1963 |publisher=Oregon State Highway Department |location=Salem, OR |year=1965 |page=107 |oclc=5694863}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Oregon state parks]]

==References==
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* {{cite book |last=Weiss  |first=Robert Mark |title=Laurelhurst: Lost Community of the Upper Rogue |publisher=Laurelhurst Publications |location=Eagle Point, OR |year=1991 |isbn=0-9624726-1-1}}

==External links==
*[http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_28.php Casey State Recreation Site], Oregon Parks and Recreation Department

{{Protected areas of Oregon}}

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[[Category:State parks of Oregon]]
[[Category:Parks in Jackson County, Oregon]]
[[Category:Rogue River (Oregon)]]
[[Category:Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon]]
[[Category:1932 establishments in Oregon]]


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