# Paisley Five Mile Point Caves

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 42.761300, -120.551400
- **Alt:** Photograph of a man walking at the base of a cliff
- **Added:** September 24, 2014
- **Built:** ca. 14,300 BP
- **Nocat:** yes
- **Refnum:** 14000708
- **Caption:** A Bureau of Land Management archaeologist walks near Cave No. 5
- **Nearest City:** Paisley, Oregon, U.S.

The Paisley Caves or the Paisley Five Mile Point Caves complex is a system of eight caves in an arid, desolate region of south-central Oregon, United States north of the present-day city of Paisley, Oregon. The caves are located in the Summer Lake basin at 4520 ft elevation and face west, carved into a ridge of Miocene and Pliocene era basalts mixed with soft volcanic tuffs and breccias by Pleistocene-era waves from Summer Lake. One of the caves may contain archaeological evidence of the oldest definitively-dated human presence in North America. The site was first studied by Luther Cressman in the 1930s.

![Photo of Paisley Five Mile Point Caves](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Paisley_caves_-_Fossil_Cave5.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_Caves (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)