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Cave Junction, incorporated in 1948, is a city in Josephine County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,363. It is the "Gateway to the Oregon Caves". It was formerly a timber, ranching and mining community. In the years after World War II there were 30 lumber mills operating in the valley, and by the late 1980s the number had dwindled to just one, the result of increased government regulation, such as roadless and wilderness designations of the nearby federal forest lands. [citation needed] Since about 1960 it has evolved into a center for wine, retirement, tourism, and small businesses.

Cave Junction is located at 42100N, 1233849W (42.166779, -123.646999)GR1, on U.S. Highway 199 at the junction of State Route 46. It is about 48 km (30 mi) southwest of Grants Pass, Oregon and 85 km (53 mi) northeast of Crescent City, California.

Cave Junction lies in the Illinois Valley, on the northwest slope of the Siskiyou Range, at an elevation of about 480 m (1575 ft) above MSL.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 km (1.6 mi), all land.