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Welches, Oregon

Welches is an unincorporated tourist-oriented community within the Mt. Hood Corridor in Oregon, located between Zigzag and Wemme along US 26.

The community was named after Samuel Welch, a homesteader who settled in the area in the 1880s. The first golf course in the state was built here in the mid-1920s, and today, the largest hotel and golf resort in the corridor is located here, complete with croquet courts.