If your idea of a good flight involves a grass strip cut into a canyon wall, the smell of pine trees, and absolutely no tower frequency to worry about, Backwood Studios has been building your dream destination in MSFS 2024. This week, the developer’s full catalog of six sceneries landed on Contrail, making it easier than ever to pick up one, a few, or the whole set.
Most of the lineup is centred on a specific stretch of southern Oregon: the Rogue River valley and the surrounding backcountry. What makes it interesting is that these aren’t just individual airport releases. Together, they form something closer to a connected flying region, where the strips share the same landscape and, in some cases, the same roads.
The flagship of the collection is Hells Canyon ($16.77), which we covered when it first released in March 2025. It packages nine remote USFS-maintained airstrips along the Snake River, including Memaloose, Dug Bar, Cache Creek, and Lord Flat, each with its own character and challenges. It’s the kind of package that rewards experience. The developer notes these strips are remote, short, and subject to variable weather, and they mean it.
From there, the individual strips build out the region one by one:
OG31 Shady Cove Airport ($5.10) is a dirt runway fly-in community on the banks of the Rogue River. The scenery includes custom homes built right alongside the runway, spawnable hangars, a fueling center, and over 10 miles of custom roads. Those roads aren’t just decorative, they connect Shady Cove directly to the next entry.
0OR8 Sutton on Rogue ($10.05) is a 62-acre private horse ranch airstrip in White City, and at that price it’s the most detailed individual scenery in the set. The developer says it includes a 2,500-foot grass runway, automated hangars triggered via lighting switches, a fueling station, animated wildlife, a trophy trout pond, a 24-acre equestrian facility, and real-world modeled buildings at 1:1 scale. When you pair it with Shady Cove, the two are connected by more than 20 miles of drivable roads.
OR74 Winkle Bar Airstrip ($4.34) takes a different, more historical approach. It’s a remote riverside strip on the Rogue River historically associated with author Zane Grey, whose former cabin sits near the airstrip. The developer has recreated the cabin in detail and even includes a hidden model of Grey’s early riverboat as a small easter egg. It’s built for atmosphere as much as aviation, and at $4.34 it’s an easy pickup.
OG13 Fly By Night ($4.55) sits in the Applegate Valley, which the developer describes as a world-renowned paragliding destination. This one has a personal quality to it: Backwood says it’s where their love for aviation began. It’s a private turf runway set within a working farming operation, focused on delivering a lived-in, grounded feel rather than technical complexity.
The outlier in the set is 7A0 Greensboro Municipal ($6.55), which is located in Alabama rather than Oregon. It’s a small municipal airport with a focus on agricultural operations, accurate apron and taxiway layouts built from direct airport access, and custom night lighting. A different flavour entirely, but at that price it doesn’t need much justification.
All six are now available on Contrail, installed via the Contrail App. If you’re a Captain’s Club member, don’t forget that your membership includes 15% off at Contrail, which makes the individual strips in particular a very easy impulse purchase. The full Oregon set, Hells Canyon included, would come in around $33 before the discount. Not a member yet? Join the Captain’s Club and the discount pays for itself fast on a haul like this.
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