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Salt Creek Falls is situated in the heart of the Cascade Range, in the southern portion of the Willamette National Forest, adjacent to the state-designed Salt Creek Sno-park and to Too Much Bear Lake. The falls is roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Willamette Pass and about 22 miles (35 km) upstream from the creek's mouth [9] [10] at the Middle ...
The classic option is an easy 1.5 to 2-mile out-and-back snowshoe trek to 286-foot Salt Creek Falls, a breathtaking sight in winter that looks its best after a nice low-elevation snow.
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Below the falls, the creek enters a narrow canyon shaped by glaciation and basaltic lava flows from higher in the Cascades. [9] [12] McCredie Hot Springs, at the former community of McCredie Springs, are natural hot springs along the lower half of Salt Creek beside Route 58. [13] [14] The Salt Creek watershed is a temperate coniferous forest.
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The Mount Adams Recreation Highway (FR 80) is plowed all the way to Pineside and Snow King Sno-parks at about 3,000 feet (910 m) elevation for most of the year, as long as there is enough money in the Forest Service's winter budget. Smith Butte Sno-park, at about 4,000 feet (1,200 m), is accessible in low-snow years.
Flood control dams were constructed along the creek in 1978 within the Ned Brown Forest Preserve near Elk Grove Village, Illinois, creating the 590-acre (2.4 km 2) Busse Lake. A diversion tunnel was constructed approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of the confluence with the Des Plaines River, at a point where the two streams are separated by ...
The two children were at Washington Park Lake in Albany at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when the boy tried to walk across the frozen lake and fell through the ice, Albany police said in a news release.