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27 ft (8.2 m) Max. depth. 55 ft (17 m) Surface elevation. 4,949 ft (1,508 m) Lake of the Woods is a natural lake near the crest of the Cascade Range in the Fremont–Winema National Forest in southern Oregon in the United States. The lake covers 1,146 acres (4.64 km 2). It was named by Oliver C. Applegate in 1870.
Lake of the Woods (French: Lac des Bois; Ojibwe: Pikwedina Sagainan [3], lit. '"inland lake of the sand hills"') is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. [4] Lake of the Woods is over 70 miles (110 km) long and wide, containing more than 14,552 islands and 65,000 miles (105,000 ...
Zippel Bay State Park. Zippel Bay State Park is a state park in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota in the United States. It is on the white sand beach shoreline of the Lake of the Woods, near the United States border with Canada. The park is open for year-round recreation including camping, hiking, fishing and cross-country skiing.
The Lake of the Woods Ranger Station is a United States Forest Service compound consisting of eight buildings overlooking Lake of the Woods in the Fremont-Winema National Forests of southern Oregon. All of the ranger station structures were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1937 and 1939. Today, the compound serves as a Forest ...
Christopher Thomas Knight was born in Maine and graduated from Lawrence High School in Fairfield, Maine, in 1984. After completing an electronics course at Sylvania Technical School, Knight took a job installing home alarms in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 1986, Knight abandoned his job and took a road trip throughout the South, before abruptly ...
Lake of the Woods is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Kern County, California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 790. [3] The community is in Cuddy Canyon in the San Emigdio Mountains, along the Ventura and Kern County line. It is within the Los Padres National Forest.
Lake of the Woods Provincial Park is a provincial park in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It protects several islands in Lake of the Woods, in both Kenora and Rainy River Districts. [2] It was established in 1967 and expanded with 11,800 hectares (29,000 acres) in 1985. [4] It provides backcountry camping opportunities.
Lake of the Woods massacre. On June 6, 1736, a party of twenty one French explorers led by Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye were massacred by Lakota and Dakota warriors on an island in Lake of the Woods. The massacre came about as a result of a recent French alliance with the Cree, who, under French protection, had been attacking Lakotas.