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Emigrant Lake is a reservoir located 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Ashland, Oregon, at the southern end of the Rogue Valley. [1] It has an elevation of 2,241 feet (683 m) above sea level . [ 2 ] The lake has an average surface area of 806 acres (3.26 km 2 ), and an average volume of 40,530 acre-feet (49,990,000 m 3 ). [ 3 ]
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 ...
Emigrant Pass is a gap in the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] It is about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of Summit Lake on the border between Klamath and Lane counties. [ 2 ] Originally called Willamette Pass , it lay along a primitive road that paralleled the Middle Fork Willamette River to near the crest. [ 2 ]
The Middle Fork Willamette River is one of several forks that unite to form the Willamette River in the western part of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is approximately 115 miles (185 km) long, [ 1 ] draining an area of the Cascade Range southeast of Eugene , which is at the southern end of the Willamette Valley .
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 ] The valley forms the largest intact stand of old-growth forest in the western Cascades , and 500- to 1000-year-old trees are common.
Today, there are 23 American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) of which Willamette Valley is the largest with just over 700 of Oregon’s 781 wineries and eleven AVAs inside its boundaries.
Erratic Rock State Natural Site is a state park in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States.Featuring a 40-short-ton (36 t) glacial erratic from the Missoula Floods, the small park sits atop a foothill of the Northern Oregon Coast Range in Yamhill County between Sheridan and McMinnville off Oregon Route 18.
William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge is a natural area in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, United States. [3] [4] It was created to provide wintering habitat for dusky Canada geese. Unlike other Canada geese, dusky Canada geese have limited summer and winter ranges.