Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
List of mountain peaks of Oregon. Coordinates: 45.3735°N 121.6959°W. Mount Hood is the highest summit of the U.S. State of Oregon. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Oregon. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
The Oregon Coast Range, often called simply the Coast Range and sometimes the Pacific Coast Range, is a mountain range, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region, in the U.S. state of Oregon along the Pacific Ocean. This north-south running range extends over 200 miles (320 km) from the Columbia River in the north on the border of Oregon ...
The Calapooya Mountains in Lane County. Mount Thielsen in the Cascade Range in southern Oregon. The Pueblo Mountains south of Fields. Trout Creek Mountains, Southeastern Oregon. The Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon. There are at least 50 named mountain ranges in the U.S. state of Oregon.
The Southern Oregon Coast Range is the southernmost section of the Oregon Coast Range, in the Pacific Coast Ranges, located in the southwest portion of the state of Oregon, United States, roughly between the Umpqua River and the middle fork of the Coquille River, beyond which are the Klamath Mountains. To the east is the Umpqua Valley and to ...
The individual mountains and peaks of the Oregon Coast Range mountain system — in western Oregon. For the system's sub-ranges, see: Category: Oregon Coast Range
Geography. The Three Sisters are at the boundary of Lane and Deschutes counties and the Willamette and Deschutes national forests in the U.S. state of Oregon, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the nearest town of Sisters. [10] The three peaks are the third-, fourth-, and fifth-highest in Oregon, [11] and contain 16 named glaciers. [12]
Neahkahnie Mountain is a mountain, or headland, on the Oregon Coast, north of Manzanita in Oswald West State Park overlooking U.S. Route 101. The peak is part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range, which is part of the Oregon Coast Range. [1] It is best known for stories of Spanish treasure said to be buried either at the foot of the mountain, or ...
Before long, the great white-capped mountains that loomed above the rapids were called the "mountains by the cascades" and later simply as the "Cascades". The earliest attested use of the name "Cascade Range" is in the writings of botanist David Douglas in 1825. [24] [25] Mount Hood is the tallest point in the U.S. state of Oregon.