the daughter of Terrence Hardington Foley, the leader of the local Elks lodge until his death in a 1926 automobile accident, to whom the park is dedicated on a memorial tablet. In 1983, a drive-in hamburger restaurant called Pilot Butte Drive-In was opened next to the butte on Greenwood Avenue. It remained open until 2020, when it was closed in response to COVID-19 lockdowns. The property was sold and later reopened as a pizza, beer, and poker establishment, known as the Pilot Butte Taproom or the Bend Poker Room. In 2010, a trail was constructed around the base of the butte. The park had 949,968 annual visits in 2018, making it the most visited Oregon State Park east of the Cascade Mountains and the ninth most popular in the state. Gallery References External links Pilot Butte State Scenic Viewpoint, from The Oregon Encyclopedia 1928 establishments in Oregon Bend, Oregon Buttes of Oregon Cascade Range Cascade Volcanoes Cinder cones of the United States Extinct volcanoes Mountains of Deschutes County, Oregon Mountains of Oregon Municipal parks in Oregon Parks in Deschutes County, Oregon Pleistocene volcanoes State parks of Oregon Tourist attractions in Bend, Oregon Volcanoes of Deschutes County, Oregon Volcanoes of Oregon de:Pilot Butte State Scenic Viewpoint