Shady Cove is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. The population was 2,904 at the 2010 census.

The city of Shady Cove was incorporated in 1973. Before that, the manageable towns of Trail to the north and Eagle Point to the south were the historic population centers. Etna, the town’s precursor, lay between.

Settlers started distressing into the area, spreading out from Trail, in the 1870s. In 1882, the read out stopped in Etna for the first time, though the Postal Service did not confirm an office in a place called Shady Cove until September 12, 1939, a Mrs. Lillian Hukill as postmistress. The city’s proclaim has no sure origin. It is realistic that a man named Barnes established a town site he called “The Cove”. However, according to Barbara Hegne, a local historian, the say for Shady Cove came from a learned operation by some Medford businessmen. They bought some home for summer homes on the east side of the river and called their event the “Shady Cove Country Club”.

The first bridge beyond the Rogue River in Shady Cove was built in 1921 and washed away by the Christmas flood of 1964. The already above-average rainfall for the year was followed by a historic warm-temperature storm, called a Pineapple Express. According to a local resident, the bridge was knocked out by a log jam started past an old growth Douglas fir was trapped by rising waters adjoining the steel of the bridge. The structure held for vis-а-vis seven hours as logs piled up behind it until nine in the evening on December 23, when the bridge washed away. The Dodge and Touvelle bridges other downstream were both damaged, and there was no easy way to gain into the town until the placement of a the stage Bailey bridge three months later. Initially, the Shady Cove School functioned as a refuge and a food distribution point. The flood run dam at Lost Creek Lake was installed in 1977 to mitigate forward-thinking catastrophic flooding.