In Popular Culture
- David Brin's book The Postman (which was adapted into a film of the same name) is largely set in the Willamette Valley, aka Hidden Valley, mostly around the city of Corvallis.
- The Willamette Valley appears at the end of The Oregon Trail computer game as the final destination.
- S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series takes place mainly in the Willamette Valley when technology suddenly fails. Portland and Corvallis figure heavily in the series.
- In the movie A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall, Geena Davis's and Lori Petty's characters are discovered playing softball and living on a dairy farm in the Willamette Valley. The Davis character eventually returns to her life there.
- In the Terry Brooks novel series The Genesis of Shannara, the elf land of Cintra is located in Willamette.
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