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The Deschutes River State Recreation Area is a park at the confluence of the Deschutes and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is a few miles east of The Dalles . The 35.1-acre (14.2 ha) park offers opportunities for camping, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian trail riding.
The headwaters of the Deschutes River are at Little Lava Lake, a natural lake in the Cascade Range approximately 26 miles (42 km) northwest of the city of La Pine.The river flows south into Crane Prairie Reservoir, then into Wickiup Reservoir, from where it heads in a northeasterly direction past the resort community of Sunriver and into the city of Bend, about 170 miles (270 km) from the ...
The reservation was created by treaty in 1855, which defined its boundaries as follows: . Commencing in the middle of the channel of the Deschutes River opposite the eastern termination of a range of high lands usually known as the Mutton Mountains; thence westerly to the summit of said range, along the divide to its connection with the Cascade Mountains; thence to the summit of said mountains ...
Tombstone Pass summit, elevation 4,236 feet (1,291 m) 16 71.52: OR 126 west (McKenzie Highway) – Springfield, Eugene: Western end of Route 126 concurrency 16 74.90: OR 22 west – Detroit, Salem: Linn–Jefferson county line 16 80.77: Santiam Pass summit, elevation 4,817 feet (1,468 m) Jefferson 16 84.57: Viewpoint (Mount Washington ...
Maupin is named for Howard Maupin, a pioneer who had a farm and ferry at the town's location in the late 19th century.Originally named Hunts Ferry after the owner of a ferry on the Deschutes River, the name was changed to Maupin Ferry by town founder William H. Staats.
The Deschutes River at the confluence of the Columbia, part of the historic homeland of the Tenino people. The Tenino people, commonly known today as the Warm Springs bands, are several Sahaptin Native American subtribes which historically occupied territory located in the North-Central portion of the American state of Oregon.
Cultus Lake is a natural lake in Deschutes County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Formed by a glacier, it is located in the high Cascade Range in the Deschutes National Forest. The name is from the Chinook Jargon and means variously bad or worthless, or simply "in vain". [3] In the early 19th century, the lakes in this area abounded with beavers ...
The Deschutes River is a 50-mile-long (80 km) river in the U.S. state of Washington. Its headwaters are in the Bald Hills in Lewis County , and it empties into Budd Inlet of Puget Sound at Olympia in Thurston County .