Distances from Bend, OR to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Bend, OR to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Bend, OR sits in Oregon, on Los Angeles time, at 44.06° north and 121.32° west. The nearest place of any size is Redmond, OR, about 20 miles away — roughly 32 min of driving. One other town of size is within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 31 are within three hours' driving of Bend, OR and 103 within six — which is a better measure of how connected a town is than its position on a map. The nearest city of real size is Portland, OR, about 141 miles out.
The two lists below answer different questions. The first is what is physically close, which is what you want for an errand or a day out. The second is the major cities people actually drive to from here, which is usually a longer trip and a different kind of plan. Every figure is an estimated road distance rather than a routed one, and every drive time assumes free-flowing traffic with no allowance for a stop — how the estimate works. For a pair that is not listed here, the calculator will work out any two US cities.
Which way the driving goes from Bend, OR
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Bend, OR. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 22 of 31 — lies to the northwest, with 4 to the southwest. Only 1 sit to the south. That asymmetry is usually geography rather than road building: coastline, a state line, mountains or simply empty country in one direction and settlement in another.
29 of those places are in Oregon and 2 are across a state line, which matters more than the mileage does. Speed limits, phone rules and what you may do at a red light are all set state by state, so a drive of the same length can be governed by two sets of rules or by one. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Los Angeles, CA is about 824 miles out, roughly 13 hr 5 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,845 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day.
One thing none of these figures account for: the distance is the same in both directions but the drive often is not. A route that climbs on the way out descends on the way back, rush hour is in one direction in the morning and the other in the evening, and a mountain pass can be open one way and closed the other in winter. The estimate here is symmetrical because the road is; the day is not. For a long haul out of Bend, OR, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Bend, OR
- Redmond, OR 20 mi · 32 min
- Springfield, OR 98 mi · 1 hr 58 min
- Eugene, OR 102 mi · 2 hr 2 min
- Albany, OR 113 mi · 2 hr 15 min
- Corvallis, OR 119 mi · 2 hr 23 min
- Salem, OR 121 mi · 2 hr 1 min
- Keizer, OR 123 mi · 2 hr 3 min
- Woodburn, OR 124 mi · 2 hr 4 min
- Oregon City, OR 127 mi · 2 hr 7 min
- West Linn, OR 128 mi · 2 hr 8 min
Major cities from Bend, OR
- Los Angeles, CA 824 mi · 13 hr 5 min
- Phoenix, AZ 1026 mi · 16 hr 18 min
- San Antonio, TX 1866 mi · 29 hr 37 min
- Chicago, IL 1969 mi · 31 hr 15 min
- Houston, TX 2006 mi · 31 hr 50 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2732 mi · 43 hr 22 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2780 mi · 44 hr 8 min
- New York City, NY 2834 mi · 44 hr 59 min
- Manhattan, NY 2836 mi · 45 hr 1 min
- Queens, NY 2845 mi · 45 hr 10 min