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Need a dentist near Thurston, OR? Head west on Main Street until it becomes Centennial and you are here. No freeway, no downtown, no bridge. Just the road you already drive.
Look at a map and Thurston is the eastern edge of Springfield. Live here and you know better. It had its own post office. It still has its own high school, its own grocery run, its own stretch of Main Street, and a post office ZIP that refuses to match the rest of town.
That is why this page exists instead of a line on the Springfield page. Thurston solves different problems. It is closer to the McKenzie than to I-5, the hills are right there at the end of the street, and people out here are used to town being a short drive west rather than something they live inside of.
The first land claims go in around what is now the east end of Springfield.
Thurston gets its own post office, named for pioneer George H. Thurston. A general store and a blacksmith shop sit at Thurston Road and 66th.
Thurston Community Hall goes up, the first building in Oregon built with curved laminated beams. It stands today as the Grange Hall.
Willamalane opens the Thurston Hills Natural Area, and 12 miles of trail arrive at the end of Main Street.
Every Thurston patient drives some version of the same route, so here is the drive as you would describe it to someone else.
Around 600 acres and a dozen miles of trail, with the trailhead off Main near 72nd and a bike washing station in the lot. The reason we see more chipped front teeth from this neighborhood than any other.
The commercial spine. Dari Mart, Albertsons, Old Crow Coffee, Toreros, Conway's. Everything Thurston needs day to day sits along this one line, and so does the way to our chair.
Ball fields on Thurston Road. If your spring and summer are organized around a softball schedule, you already know exactly where this is.
The indoor wave pool on Thurston Road, and the first one in the Northwest when it opened. Every kid in this ZIP has a birthday party memory here.
The schools that give the neighborhood its own gravity. Most of our Thurston families schedule around these two calendars, and we build around them too.
The river is north of you and the newer builds climb the hill. Older ranches and split-levels sit below. Two different housing ages, two different sets of teeth walking through our door.
Every service below happens at the Centennial office with Dr. Matthew Collins. Nothing gets referred across town.
Main Street west out of Thurston, through midtown, and onto Centennial Boulevard. Suite #3 is on the stretch between Mohawk and Pioneer Parkway. That is the entire set of directions, and it is why Thurston patients are some of the least likely to be late.
New here? The patient resources page has forms and insurance before your first visit. The rest of Springfield has its own page, and the service areas page covers every town in the valley if you have family further out.
Main Street west, then pick up Centennial Boulevard. That is the whole thing. You never touch I-5, you never go through downtown Eugene, and there is nothing between you and Suite #3 but the road you already drive every day.
Not at all. Thurston sits at the east end of Springfield and we are in the middle of it, so this is one of the shorter drives in our whole service area. Plenty of our patients come from the streets off Thurston Road and around Bob Artz Park.
Usually. Thurston Elementary and Thurston High families tend to book back to back so one trip covers everybody. We are open Tuesday through Friday, and morning slots go first, so call early in the week.
More often than you would guess. Twelve miles of trail in the Thurston Hills produces the occasional face-first result. Call 541-287-7874 as early in the day as you can and we will work to get you seen the same day.
Tell us what you need and when the schedule lets you out. We will find a time.
541-287-7874