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Dry Mountain is a drive up summit near the Burns-Hines area with a lookout tower and cabin. To get there I recommend this route: 

Turn north off of US-20 at 43.5467, -119.0847 onto NF-47, aka Hines Logging Road.

At 43.64275, -119.2629 turn west onto US-41, aka Donelly Road.

At 43.7038, -119.3953 turn onto US-4120, aka Beaver Slide Road.

Stay on this road until you find a lookout tower.

The road is very good to good until the last half mile or so where it gets a bit rough. Possibly not Priusable, but easy in a Rav4 or higher clearance vehicle.

The hike to Bob’s has almost doubled. From just over 3 mi RT to just over 6 mi RT. Elevation gain increased 400ft from 1100 to 1500. The Washington DNR has placed a new gate at 45.64596, -122.20734. There was no signage and I am not sure if the gate will always be closed. But seems prudent to plan on the longer hike. There is plenty of parking near the gate. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of trash on the hill, which was always the down side of doing this peak.

Mount Gauldy is an easy summit near Hebo Oregon
It is either a drive up or a road walk of at most 3.5mi RT and 600ft elevation gain.

The Gate has moved back to 45.90847, -121.81117. See this write up for the current access:

http://www.pnwsota.org/node/370

Hike: 2 miles RT Bushwhack

Elevation Gain: 500 feet

There are eight Round Tops in Oregon although two of them add another word to the name. This one is a few miles north and a bit east of John Day Oregon as the radio signal flies.

Hike: 2 miles RT

Elevation Gain: 500 feet

Hike RT 0 – 2 miles

Elevation Gain 0 - 129 feet

Mount Emily is a six point summit north of La Grande Oregon. It is a complete drive up, but requires AWD and moderate ground clearance to get there. The road out of La Grande quickly turns to gravel and gets steep (17% according to the warning sign). It stays good gravel for just short of 10 miles and then gets a bit rough. The directions given by Google Maps are accurate except for one place where it wants you to cut the switchback (see below).

Taylor Butte is on public land, but the road referred to in the previous write ups is now gated, locked and posted. Access still possible in theory, but not via road. I did not have time or information at the gate to figure an alternate route.

Dean Mountain, also labeled on some maps "Dear Mountain", as in Dear Mountain it's been such a long time, sorry I haven't written.