- The Mt. Hood "corridor" starts east of Boring in outside of Sandy, Oregon and continues through the "Hoodlands" (Brightwood, Wemme, Welches, Rhododendron & ZigZag), though Forest Service land, to Government Camp on the south side on Mt. Hood, and along the mountain's east side towards Hood River. The area includes an
elementary school and a middle school, a branch of the Clackamas County Bank,
multiple U.S. Post Offices, a fire station, Hoodland Shopping Center, as well as other businesses.
- This is the summer and winter playground of the Northwest, summer home to the US Ski Team.
- Brightwood traces its roots to at least the 1890s
- Welches was named after Samuel Welch, a homesteader who settled near Welches Creek in 1882
- Wemme was named for E. Henry Wemme, a Portland businessman who bought a Locomobile in 1899, the first automobile in Oregon.
- Rhododendron was renamed Rhododendron in 1920, (after being named "Zig Zag" and "Zigzag") because of the large number of rhododendrons growing near there
- Government Camp was given its name by settlers traveling the Barlow Road, who discovered several wagons abandoned there by the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen.
- Sandy was named after the nearby Sandy River
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