Antelope, OR

Antelope is a city in rural Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The 2020 census counted 37 residents. The city was established in 1872 at a stage and freight wagon road stop on the old Dalles to Canyon City Trail. Antelope was incorporated as Antelope in 1901. Antelope's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Oregon setting. The local scoop is how Antelope's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.

In the early 1980s, hundreds of members of the Rajneesh movement moved in and built a small city in previously unoccupied land they purchased. Sherar became known as the operator of a toll bridge across the Deschutes River, on a cut-off of the Barlow Road. In the mid-19th century, Antelope began as a station along the wagon road connecting The Dalles on the Columbia River with gold mines near Canyon City.