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in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, the highest true lake in Oregon at 8,950 feet (2,730 m) elevation Leaburg Reservoir: an impoundment of the McKenzie River near Leaburg: Lemolo Lake: an impoundment of the North Umpqua River about 10 miles (16 km) north of Diamond Lake: Little Crater Lake: a tiny lake which about as deep as it is wide, northeast of ...
[2] [5] In addition, the 36,870-acre (14,920 ha) Bull of the Woods Wilderness in the Mount Hood National Forest shares its southern boundary with the Opal Creek Wilderness. [6] The Opal Creek Valley contains 50 waterfalls and five lakes. Eight hiking trails, remnants of the early day prospecting and fire access routes, total 36 miles (58 km). [7]
[3] [5] [9] Lake of the Woods is 33 miles (53 km) west of Klamath Falls and 43 miles (69 km) east of Medford. The small unincorporated community of Lake of the Woods, Oregon, is located on the east shore of the lake, approximately 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) south of Oregon Route 140. There is a Forest Service visitor center at the historic Lake of ...
This is a list of natural lakes and reservoirs located fully or partially in the U.S. state of Washington. Natural lakes that have been altered with a dam, such as Lake Chelan, are included as lakes, not reservoirs. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Idaho also has the greatest percent of its land in national forests, with 38.2 percent, followed by Oregon (24.7 percent) and Colorado (20.9 percent). On maps, national forests in the west generally show the true extent of their area, but those in the east often only show purchase districts, within which usually only a minority of the land is ...
It was the first major road constructed between the Tualatin Valley and Portland, and has contributed significantly to Portland becoming the area's major deep water port, and subsequent early growth of the city. [2] The total modern length is 6.5 miles (10.5 km), [3] and 2.7 miles (4.3 km) of the route is coterminous with U.S. Route 26. [4]
The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range, forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [1]
The Mount Washington Wilderness is a wilderness area located on and around Mount Washington in the central Cascade Range of Oregon in the United States. The wilderness was established in 1964 and comprises 54,278 acres (219.66 km 2 ) of the Willamette National Forest and Deschutes National Forest .