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Located 360 meters above Hallstatt, the platform overlooks the village, Lake Hallstatt and the surrounding Dachstein Alps. Hallstatt Ossuary (Beinhaus): Located in St. Michael's Chapel, the Ossuary is a cultural monument comprising more than 1,200 human skulls, 600 of which are artistically painted with symbols, names and dates.
Hallstätter See or Lake Hallstatt is a lake in Salzkammergut, Austria.It is named after Hallstatt, a small market town famous for its salt mining since prehistoric times and for being the starting point of the world's oldest still-working industrial pipeline, used to transport brine to Bad Ischl (since 1596) and further to Ebensee.
View of Hallstatt. 1895 map (from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 4th ed.), showing the area between c. and , centered on. The Salzkammergut (Austrian German: [ˈsaltskamɐɡuːt], Northern German: [ˈzaltskamɐɡuːt] ⓘ; Central Austro-Bavarian: Soizkaumaguad) is a resort area in Austria, stretching from the city of Salzburg eastwards along the Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps ...
Heavenly Mountain Resort: South Lake Tahoe: California: 10,067 7,200 3,500 4,800 94 30 360 $164 December 11, 2019 [42] Mount Shasta Ski Park: Mount Shasta: California:
List of California ski resorts is a list of ski resorts in California, United States, ... Heavenly Mountain Resort: South Lake Tahoe: 10,040 6,567 3,500 4,800 97 28 360"
Resorts in 1892 included Laurel Dell, a Swiss cottage on a grassy flat on the lower lake with smaller corrages around it, the Blue Lakes Hotel, with a hotel and several pretty cottages, where the upper lake flowed into the lower in a lawn-like expanse of grassland with clumps of gnarled and moss-covered oak, and Le Trianon, a very prettily ...
The Salton Sea is the largest lake in California by surface area. [102] [103] [104] The average annual inflow is less than 1.2 million acre⋅ft (1.5 km 3), which is enough to maintain a maximum depth of 43 feet (13 m) and a total volume of about 6 million acre⋅ft (7.4 km 3).
In the 1960s Lake County bought the property under eminent domain, dammed Highland Creek and Adobe Creek, and flooded the resort property with the Highland Springs Reservoir. [12] As of 2021 the 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) Highland Springs Recreation Area was managed by the County of Lake Watershed Protection District.