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The Cascade Range is a part of the American Cordillera, a nearly continuous chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that form the western "backbone" of North, Central, and South America . The Cascades are home to many national parks and protected areas, including North Cascades National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Crater Lake National Park ...
The Three Sisters are at the boundary of Lane and Deschutes counties and the Willamette and Deschutes national forests in the U.S. state of Oregon, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the nearest town of Sisters. [ 10] The three peaks are the third-, fourth-, and fifth-highest in Oregon, [ 11] and contain 16 named glaciers. [ 12]
List of mountain peaks of Oregon. Coordinates: 45.3735°N 121.6959°W. 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:
Mount Hood is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It was formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific coast and rests in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located about 50 mi (80 km) east-southeast of Portland, on the border between Clackamas and Hood River counties. In addition to being Oregon's highest ...
South Hill wouldn’t lose again, victorious over Alaska’s Abbott-O-Rabbit Little League on Aug. 5 (11-4) and Oregon’s Bend North Little League on Aug. 7 (14-5).
The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [ 1] east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of what is now the state of Kansas and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming.
Interstate 84 ( I-84) in the U.S. state of Oregon is a major Interstate Highway that traverses the state from west to east. It is concurrent with U.S. Route 30 (US 30) for most of its length and runs 376 miles (605 km) from an interchange with I-5 in Portland to the Idaho state line near Ontario. The highway roughly follows the Columbia River ...
The National Historic Site consists of two units, one located on the site of Fort Vancouver in modern-day Vancouver, Washington; the other being the former residence of John McLoughlin in Oregon City, Oregon. The two sites were separately given national historic designation in the 1940s. [4] The Fort Vancouver unit was designated a National ...