To me, Oregon is a place of mythic Creatures and magic places.
The House of Mystery, the Grants
Pass Cavemen, thousands of big dangerous cougars roaming the woods,
but which are rarely seen.... And always there is the Bigfoot.
I recall being especially struck by a documented sighting of that
mythic creature which took place near my town in 1989. It happened
about 15 air miles east of Oregon City, in a heavily wooded area
of the foothills of the Old Cascades. He was seen with vehicle
headlights south of Estacada as he darted across FS road 45. His
ways are mysterious, and the many Oregon accounts paint him as
comfortably nocturnal much of the time. 
I wrote of the Bigfoot-Sasquatch controversy in a high school essay many years ago. Re-reading my writing recently, it did not seem dated, so I will include parts of it whenever I can find the time to transcribe it.
Note: this beautifully crafted statue of Bigfoot was on display at the 2005 Clackamas County Fair; note the 6 yr. old boy at Bigfoot's hip! I was told by its maker that soon this statue would be seen by travellers of State Route 22 (Hwy 22, the Santiam Pass Highway). I was told that the statue will be visible from the highway in the small mountain town of Detroit. Watch for it in your travels! Update Sept. 2020. In 2002 there was a beautiful Bigfoot couple being displayed in Detroit (see pics page bottom). But they went away, long-gone, even before the awful Beachie Creek/Lionshead fires decimated the town of Detroit in September 2020 (and also destroying the nearby spiritual retreat center Breitenbush).
My trail name for PCT travels, and within my Olympia hiking group, is "Yeti." Here I am hugging my namesake in 2018. This was beside a terrific bakery named Nancy P's, in Bend, Oregon:
Summer 2006; when I visited Detroit this summer in
search of Bigfoot, I found a happily married Bigfoot couple instead
of the lone giant I had been expecting! 
The
exquisitely carved couple was be-decked with flowers given to
celebrate their union by the townfolk. Neither of them was the
bigfoot shown at the Clackamas County Fair!
They were prominently displayed in front of the Cedars Restaurant and Lounge, beside the door that faces westward.... The maker is Mr. Toby Johnson of Aurora, Oregon--the same carver as the artist who carved the Clackamas Fair bigfoot. He is a Detroit local who now has a shop in Aurora, Oregon. As of 2010, his website was www.tobyjsart.com
Summer 2019; I found a wood carver's shop alongside
a busy road near Bremerton, WA. This big male reminded me very
much
of the one I had found at the Clackamas County Fair 15 years before
(see page top). Note that this one has a silly grin and a very
pointy head!
OregonPhotos.com