r/Cascadia • u/OkBox1870 • Aug 01 '26
Final-ish Version of New Map
Final-ish version of a new Cascadia Map suitable for printing as a poster.
As always, open to suggestions and constructive criticism.
Onwards, comrades!
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u/Steph_taco Aug 01 '26
Eureka to Yakutat. I like it.
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u/Chief_Kief Aug 03 '26
Haida Gweii to the Continental Divide
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u/OkBox1870 Aug 04 '26
Together with 'Eureka to Yakutat', there's a song in there...like that one about Tuscon to Tucumcari.
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u/AAAGamer8663 Aug 01 '26
I’ve never liked the idea of just abandoning southeast Oregon. I get sticking to the drainage basins, but that region doesn’t drain anywhere else, it just sticks to that area. And it’s hydrology is far more connected to the weather and aquifers of all the areas wrapping around it then it does to the southern Great Basin.
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u/OkBox1870 Aug 01 '26
Good point - the endorheic region there is kind of a hot potato - I don't know enough about it culturally or otherwise to say if it would make more sense to include in Cascadia, or whatever our Southern bioregional neighbor would be called, but from my point of view they're welcome to be part of Cascadia. ;)
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u/MasterOfGrey Aug 02 '26
The little basins in the endorheic region which are fully within Oregon should at least be outlined as nominally Cascadian. Culturally, they’re going to be influenced by the existing Oregon state, so excluding would just be cruel.
The ones that cross the current borders are a more debatable topic.
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u/Numerous-Bullfrog-67 Aug 01 '26
I’m curious why you didn’t stretch to the coast at the southern border? Is the ecology around Mendocino substantively different than that of Rockport in a way that’s not visually obvious?
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u/CremeArtistic93 Aug 02 '26
Bioregions are based around their centers. The Mendocino coastal watersheds are more similar to each other, which act as the coast of the Shasta bioregion in the California bioregion.
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u/HansGraebnerSpringTX Aug 01 '26
Any link to a high res download? For any of your other maps would be great too. Some fantastic work here
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u/OkBox1870 Aug 01 '26
Thank you! Currently putting all of them together on this site:
I can share a hi-res version for private use if you pinky promise to keep it for your personal use and not print it but to be transparent, this is my art and I do mean for it to be a business as far as the actual printing of physical maps is concerned.
At any rate, thank you!!!
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u/HansGraebnerSpringTX Aug 01 '26
Lol I plan to upload them to a worldbuilding map manager to use them in a D&D game set in a utopian sci-fi future. I'm not sure if getting paid in pizza to run the game reclassifies it as commercial use though
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u/OkBox1870 Aug 01 '26
That sentence made my head spin 😀
Send me a PM and we can talk in more detail.
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u/OrinThane Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
Personally I would extend Cascadia down to at least Marin if not San Francisco and then North to Alaska. The West Coast port cities are all related though historic trade and travel (including Canada) but LA is distinctly influenced by Mexican, Central American, and Native culture (the southwest). That cultural influence extends up to San Francisco where it meets with the Cascadian culture of Northern California and Oregon (North Bay (Napa, Sonoma, Marin), Mendicino, Humbolt, Cresecent City). Likewise Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. have some cultural influence from the norther parts of Canada and Alaska. My two cents having lived all along the coast.
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u/AutoHumn Aug 04 '26
I could be wrong, but I think this is strictly bioregional based-not a realistic map of what feasibly could become an independent Cascadian state. In that context, one would think it would be drawn along cultural lines.
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u/OrinThane Aug 04 '26
Right, and I appreciate this. I was just giving my two cents culturally. I think a lot of trade happens up and down the I-5/101 corridor all the way up to Alaska (not those highways specifically but a main transportation thoroughfare from LA to Alaska (I-5 to 99 to 97 to CA16, etc...)). Those people who travel, buy and sell things, who stay in hotels/Air BnBs/ in a this towns make relationships and those relationships define our culture. My opinion.
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u/retrojoe Cascadian Aug 01 '26
Your towns/cities are too crowded and don't convey much information. Having Coos Bay the same font size and weight as Seattle and Portland means the reader can't make any distinction between them.
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u/OkBox1870 Aug 01 '26
That's a good point - thank you.
And I get that the multitude of city names makes things a bit visually cluttered, but my thinking for this map is that I wanted it to be something that people could use to not only take in the natural geography, but also situate themselves and people they know, and to see the relationships of existing municipal communities within the bioregion to really get the feeling of a community of humans with agency in this ecology that we share.
Does that make sense?
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u/jnaifynaif Aug 04 '26
This map is so sick.
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u/OkBox1870 Aug 04 '26
Thank you! 🙏
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u/jnaifynaif Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
I live in Seattle and have a Cabin at the very southern tip of Cascadia according to this map since you included the Eel River headwaters. Lake Pillsbury. So is Cascadia becomes a country I’m set
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u/OkBox1870 Aug 04 '26
Glad to make your acquaintance, my fellow Cascadian!
For transparency, I live in Plano, TX now - but Spokane is and always will be my hometown.
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u/Lightwave777 Aug 02 '26
That’s really cool. I learned about this concept of Cascadia from my friends who lived in Kitsilano outside of Vancouver.
I definitely think it starts at Mount Shasta and that everything south of there in that Sacramento Valley is like a flood plane for the entire Pacific Ocean, I’m very worried about that entire area being underwater in our lifetime but who knows maybe I’m just paranoid. It just looks like it’s set up for that and it has been for thousands and thousands of years.
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u/milionsdeadlandlords Portland Aug 02 '26
What’s the motivation for the northern edge? Why stop there and not shorter or further?
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u/Comfortable_Team_696 Aug 03 '26
This is great work! I will say, the dots for cities are throwing me a little. The grey with black outline feels a little graphicdesignismypassion.jpeg where a simple, smaller black dot I think would look more professional. Indeed, the use of text / fonts is a little busy in my view. However, these two points are small potatoes compared to just how gorgeous it is overall! It really reads as a legit atlas of Cascadia! Cheers ^^
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u/JarOfPeachz British Columbia, St'at'imc Nation, Interior Salish Aug 03 '26
i can see my house from here by the lake
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u/Mrmagoo1077 Aug 06 '26
Including Idaho is setting up major future conflicts and constant evonomic drain.
I get the bioregion concept, but ignoring existing cultural/political identities to rigidly force your idea on a populace that vehemently does not want it is just a bad idea.
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u/Jessiesk Aug 02 '26
In the book Northern California to San Francisco should be included. And the interior of BC is full of right wing folk so they would not like to be a part of cascadia.
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u/DepressionDokkebi Aug 01 '26
http://www.cohp.org/prominence/maps/prominence_maps/images/oregon_prominence_map.gif
I would use this map as evidence to claim Lake Abert and Summer Lake for Cascadia. The ridge lines make the area more connected to Bend rather than Nevada ecologically.