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Oregon Route 99 runs along the creek for a short distance south of Drain, and Oregon Route 38 follows the creek from Drain to Elkton. [3] Before its demolition in 1995, Roaring Camp Bridge, a private covered bridge, spanned Elk Creek about 6 miles (10 km) west of Drain. [5] Robert Lancaster built the bridge in 1929 to provide road access to his ...
Elk Creek is an 18-mile (29 km) tributary of the Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon.Beginning at 4,931 feet (1,503 m) above sea level in the western foothills of the Cascade Range, it flows generally southwest through the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Elk Creek Project lands to Rogue Elk Park in Jackson County.
The Elk River is in southwestern Oregon in the United States. About 29 miles (47 km) long, the river drains a remote 92-square-mile (240 km 2 ) area of the Coast Range into the Pacific Ocean . Rising in the mountains in northern Curry County , in the Siskiyou National Forest at confluence of its north and south forks, the river initially flows ...
Cannon Beach is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Its population was 1,690 at the 2010 census. It is a popular coastal Oregon tourist destination, famous for Haystack Rock, a 235 ft (72 m) sea stack that juts out along the coast. [6] In 2013, National Geographic listed it as "one of the world's 100 most beautiful places." [6]
Susanville is a ghost town in Grant County, Oregon, United States, in the Blue Mountains about two miles up Elk Creek from Galena. [1] The place was started as a gold mining camp in 1862 or 1864. [2] [3]
Elk Creek (Gasconade River tributary), a stream in Missouri; Elk Creek (Niobrara River tributary), a stream in Rock County, Nebraska; Elk Creek (Rogue River tributary), a stream in Oregon; Elk Creek (Umpqua River tributary), a stream in Oregon; Elk Creek (Lake Erie), Pennsylvania; Elk Creek (Loyalsock Creek tributary), Pennsylvania; Elk Creek ...
In 2008, USACE removed part of the Elk Creek Dam and restored Elk Creek to its original channel. [102] Construction on the dam had been halted by a court injunction in the 1980s after about 80 feet (24 m) of the proposed height of 240 feet (73 m) was reached. [ 102 ]
Oregon Route 38 is an Oregon state highway that runs between the city of Reedsport, on the Oregon Coast, and an interchange with Interstate 5 near the communities of Curtin and Anlauf. It is also known as most of the Umpqua Highway No. 45 (see Oregon highways and routes ), as the western portions of the highway run alongside the Umpqua River .