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Drift Creek Falls is a waterfall formed west of Valley of the Giants, east side of the city of Lincoln City in Lincoln County, Oregon. [1] Access to Drift Creek Falls is located along a trail constructed by the Forest Service in the 1990s and features a 240 foot long suspension bridge crossing Drift Creek. [2]
A Knox Trail marker, near Benton Pond in East Otis. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 38.0 square miles (98.5 km 2), of which 35.6 square miles (92.1 km 2) is land and 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), or 6.55%, is water. [3]
The crossroad village at its center was first known as Bethlehem, and was combined with the neighboring town of Louden to form the town of Otis (named for politician Harrison Gray Otis) in 1810. The village's central location and location along a major east–west roadway across the Berkshires ensured its prosperity as a modest farming community.
The county dismantled the bridge in 1997 and gave the timbers to Laura and Kerry Sweitz, who owned land 8 miles (13 km) north of the Drift Creek site. In 2000, the Sweitz family rebuilt the bridge over Bear Creek and granted a permanent public easement at that site. [4] Bear Creek is a tributary of the Salmon River, which it enters near Rose ...
Drift Creek is a tributary, about 18 miles (29 km) long, of Siletz Bay in the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] The creek begins near Stott Mountain in the Central Oregon Coast Range in Lincoln County and follows a winding course generally west through the Siuslaw National Forest to enter the bay south of Lincoln City on the Pacific Ocean.
Tolland State Forest is a publicly owned forest with recreational features covering 4,415 acres (1,787 ha) in the towns of Otis, Tolland, Blandford and Sandisfield in the southern Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. [3]
Bear Creek is a tributary of the Salmon River in the Central Oregon Coast Range in the United States. It begins in the Siuslaw National Forest and flows generally northwest through Lincoln County to meet the river between Rose Lodge and Otis. Named tributaries from source to mouth are McMullen, Tarry, Southman, and Morton creeks. [3]
The Farmington River is a 46.7 mi (75.2 km) [1] river located in northwest Connecticut, with major tributaries extending into southwest Massachusetts.> The Farmington River's watershed covers 609 square miles (1,580 km 2). Historically, the river played an important role in small-scale manufacturing in towns along its course, but it is now ...