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Prior to the 1990s, the eastern junction with SH-44 in Eagle was a quarter-mile (0.4 km) east at Horseshoe Bend Road, which was SH-55. In late 2006, the route was realigned away from downtown Nampa when a new interchange, Interchange #33 along Interstate 84 was opened and provided a more direct connection to State Highway 55 from the Interstate.
Owens Lake from the Horseshoe Meadows Road. The lake is a large salt flat whose surface is made of a mixture of clay, sand, and a variety of minerals including halite, burkeite, mirabilite, thenardite, and trona. In wet years, these minerals form a chemical soup in the form of a small brine pond within the dry lake.
The Alabama Hills serve as a gateway to Mount Whitney and the Eastern Sierra Nevada.While dispersed camping is very popular with the backpackers, car campers, and the RV community, [5] the region's fragile ecosystem and increasing numbers of visitors prompted the Bureau of Land Management to discourage the practice, appealing that camping in campgrounds helps maintain the area's great scenery ...
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Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite: Lake Tahoe: Tecumseh Trail: 38.2 61 Indiana: Morgan Monroe State Forest: Monroe Reservoir: Theodore Solomons Trail: 271 436 California: Glacier Point: Horseshoe Meadows: parallel alternate to the John Muir Trail, laying lower and further west Timberline Trail: 40.7 66 Oregon: loops around Mount Hood, almost ...
It continues on to Midvale, Cambridge, and Council, then climbs into the Payette National Forest, passing the Tamarack sawmill site, and turns east to New Meadows. Here, US-95 joins with Highway 55, the two-lane undivided route that connects to Boise through McCall, Cascade, and Horseshoe Bend.
Site name Reason for designation Area Grid reference [B] Year in which notified Map [C] Biological interest Geological interest Hectares Acres Ashton Court Y 210.3 519.7 ST553723 1998 Map Aust Cliff Y 5.3 13.1 ST565894 1954 Map Avon Gorge Y Y 155.4 384.0 ST560743 1952 Map Banwell Caves Y Y 1.7 4.2 ST383588 1963 Map Banwell Ochre Caves Y 12.5 30.8 ST407593 1983 Map Barnhill Quarry Y 3.1 7.7 ...
From the northern terminus at Glacier Point in Yosemite and the southern terminus located at Horseshoe Meadow, the trail's official length is 271.3 miles (436.6 km). For almost all of its length, the trail is in the Middle Sierra backcountry and wilderness areas.