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The Three Sisters and nearby Broken Top account for about a third of the Three Sisters Wilderness, and this area is known as the Alpine Crest Region. Rising from about 5,200 ft (1,600 m) to 10,358 ft (3,157 m) in elevation, the Alpine Crest Region features the wilderness area's most-frequented glaciers, lakes, and meadows.
It comprises 286,708 acres (1,160.27 km 2), making it the second-largest wilderness area in Oregon, after the Eagle Cap Wilderness. It was established by the United States Congress in 1964 and is named for the Three Sisters volcanoes. The wilderness boundary encloses the Three Sisters as well as Broken Top, which is southeast of South Sister. [2]
Also located at the Deschutes County Expo Center is a conference center known as the Three Sisters. These three buildings have 33,736 square feet of total space. The largest is the Middle Sister, at 14,904 square feet, used for banquets, conferences and trade shows. It can accommodate 1,568 for smaller concerts.
Mount Bachelor from Little Lava Lake (southwest of the mountain). Mount Bachelor lies in the Cascade Range, within Deschutes County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. [2] It is located south of the Three Sisters complex volcano, [5] and reaches an elevation of 9,068 feet (2,764 m).
The Three Sisters, the city's namesake mountains. Sisters is the headquarters of the Sisters District of the Deschutes National Forest. The Sisters Ranger District Office is located at Pine Street and Highway 20. [18] Hiking, biking and horse riding trails go from the city limits into the Three Sisters Wilderness.
Urness is the author of “Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon” and “Hiking Southern Oregon.” He can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or (503) 399-6801. Find him on X at @ZachsORoutdoors.
Broken Top is a glacially eroded complex stratovolcano.It lies in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, part of the extensive Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon.Located southeast of the Three Sisters peaks, the volcano, residing within the Three Sisters Wilderness, [4] is 20 miles (32 km) west of Bend, Oregon in Deschutes County.
Mount Multnomah is an invalidated hypothetical ancient volcano postulated in a 1925 publication by geologist Edwin T. Hodge. [1] It was proposed to exist in central Oregon at the present day location of the Three Sisters region.