Estacada bifurcates by relationship to the gorge. Downtown rooms fill with timber families who've worked these forests for generations, while Broadway hosts the Portland weekenders who discovered the river access. Clackamas River area draws the outdoor crowd. Eagle Creek operates in its own bubble. Springwater and Cazadero Heights add the rural-residential layers. The comedy here navigates populations that share a town but experience different relationships to the land. Open mics become the rare space where the working forest and the recreational forest sit together. The comics who honor both Estacadas find audiences grateful someone saw beyond the day-trip version.