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Mountain Air Park is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, [2] served by the Brightwood, Oregon 97011 post office. It is on Mount Hood Highway 26 northwest of Mount Hood Village, Oregon near Wildwood Recreation Site.
Mount Hood is the highest summit of the U.S. State of Oregon. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Oregon. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
Bend is a city in Central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located to the east of the Cascade Range , on the Deschutes River . The site became known by pioneers as a fordable crossing point of the river, where it ran through a bend.
Once the moisture is wrung from the air, the air descends on the eastern side of the crest, which causes it to become warmer and drier. On the western slopes, precipitation ranges from 80 to 125 in (200 to 320 centimeters) annually, while precipitation over the eastern slopes varies from 40 to 80 in (100 to 200 cm) in the east.
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.
A city just north of Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle takes the cake for the coldest city in the state, with an average low of 53 degrees. ... Great Bend, Kansas. Great Bend, near the ...
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.
Wildfire season hasn’t wrapped up yet in Oregon, and it’s likely to impact air quality through at least this weekend. Oregon wildfire smoke lingers, impacting air quality in Eugene, Bend as ...