Cottage Grove is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States.

It is on Interstate 5, Oregon Route 99, and the main Willamette Valley line of the CORP railroad.

[8] Cottage Grove post office was established in 1855 east of present-day Creswell.

[9] In 1861, the office was moved to the present site of Saginaw;[9] then in the late 1860s, to the southwesternmost part of present-day Cottage Grove, on the west bank of the Coast Fork Willamette River.

[9] When the Southern Pacific railroad was built through the area in the 1870s, Cottage Grove station was placed more than half a mile northeast of the post office, on the river's east side.

[11] Cottage Grove received the All-America City Award by the National Civic League in 1968 and 2004.

[16] This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F (22.0 °C).

Hidden Valley is a privately owned 10-hole course nestled along the northern slope of Mount David, featuring numerous gigantic oak trees and bounded by Bennett Creek and the Coast Fork of the Willamette River.

The Row River National Recreation Trail is a 14-mile, paved, multi-use trail that begins in Cottage Grove's Historic Downtown District and follows the route of the now-abandoned Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railroad line, along the scenic shores of the Row (rhymes with 'cow') River and Dorena Reservoir.

[citation needed] The South Lane School District serves Cottage Grove and the surrounding area.

Lane Community College has a Cottage Grove satellite campus offering credit and enrichment courses.

[citation needed] Founded in 1909, the Cottage Grove Sentinel (circulation: 3,331) is the city's weekly newspaper.

Jim Wright Field is a public airport serving small general aviation aircraft, located one mile (1.6 km) east of Cottage Grove.

Lane Transit District runs bus service to nearby Eugene and Springfield.

South Lane Wheels offers a shuttle and door-to-door service in Cottage Grove.