Redmond Airport (Roberts Field)

The federal government sold this airfield to the city of Redmond for one dollar after World War II — which tells you something about how Central Oregon got its commercial airport. Built in the 1920s, used by the Army Air Forces as a bomber base, then handed off and rebuilt into a passenger terminal by 1950, Roberts Field has been the region's aviation gateway ever since. Today it serves Bend and the broader Cascades with nonstop flights across the American West, and houses a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper facility on the north side of the field.