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Rainbow is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It lies off Oregon Route 126, northeast of Eugene. Rainbow's elevation is 1,211 feet (369 m). [1] A post office was established on July 1, 1924, and closed August 31, 1937. The post office got its name from the rainbow trout that swim in the McKenzie River. [2] [3]
Vista House is a museum at Crown Point in Multnomah County, Oregon, that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The site, situated on a rocky promontory, is 733 feet (223 m) above the Columbia River on the south side of the Columbia River Gorge .
The current Belknap Bridge was designed for Lane County by the Oregon Bridge Corporation of Springfield, Oregon, [5] [7] as a classic covered bridge. It is 120 feet (37 m) long, containing a single span supported by a Howe truss system. Its maximum carrying capacity of 39 short tons (35 t) is to accommodate logging trucks.
Beginning near the Holiday Farm RV Resort in Rainbow on the evening of September 7, 2020, due to fallen power lines, [3] [4] the fire spread rapidly down the McKenzie valley and up into the densely wooded foothills on both sides of the river and Oregon Route 126. Driven by unusually strong winds from the east during the often-driest time of ...
The 1918 Art Nouveau style Vista House is an observatory at Crown Point that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The site, on a rocky promontory, is 733 feet (223 m) above the Columbia River on the south side of the Columbia River Gorge.
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Name Image Location Coordinates Year first lit Automated Year deactivated Current Lens Height Cape Arago Light: Coos Bay: 1866 (First) 1934 (Current): 1966 2006 (Now tribal land)
Blue River is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is located on Oregon Route 126 along the McKenzie River, between the communities of Finn Rock and Rainbow. It is in the Willamette National Forest, where the Blue River empties into the McKenzie.