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Cascadia State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon near Sweet Home along the South Santiam River at Cascadia. The park includes a day use area, campsites, hiking trails and 150 foot Lower Soda Creek Falls.
The resort had a hotel established by George Geisendorfer, who was also the first postmaster. People were attracted to Cascadia because of its mineral spring water. [6] The property was sold to the state in 1940 and now is the site of the 300-acre (1.2 km 2) Cascadia State Park. A fence in Cascadia, made to look like an old town.
second-largest wilderness lake in Oregon Mirror Lake (Clackamas County, Oregon) a mountain lake southwest of Mount Hood, located at the foot of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain: Mirror Pond: an impoundment of the Deschutes River in central Bend: Lake Modoc: a former lake on the Klamath River: Mud Lake: nineteen Oregon lakes share this name, but are ...
Wickiup Reservoir is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Bend, and is the largest of the Cascade Lakes. [3] Wickiup Reservoir is close to the Twin Lakes, Davis Lake, Crane Prairie Reservoir, Cultus Lake, and Little Cultus Lake.
The Cascadia bioregion. The area from Vancouver, B.C. down to Portland, Oregon has been termed the Cascadia Megaregion, a megaregion defined by the U.S. and Canadian governments, especially along the 'Cascadia Corridor'. Megaregions are defined as areas where "boundaries begin to blur, creating a new scale of geography now known as the megaregion.
With an area of 98,381 square miles (254,810 km 2), Oregon is slightly larger than the United Kingdom. It is the ninth largest state in the United States. [1] Oregon's highest point is the summit of Mount Hood, at 11,249 feet (3,429 m), and its lowest point is the sea level of the Pacific Ocean along the Oregon Coast. [2]
For decades, scientists have warned about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs offshore along the coast from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino ...
Illinois River Rafters. The Illinois River is "a wilderness river that tests both the skill and strength of boaters". [10] For the 31-mile (50 km) run along the Wild and Scenic part of the river between upper Oak Flat near Kerby and lower Oak Flat, boaters are far from trails and roads. [10]