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The Sipsey Wilderness lies within Bankhead National Forest around the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River in northwestern Alabama, United States. Designated in 1975 and expanded in 1988, 24,922-acre (10,086 ha) Sipsey is the largest and most frequently visited Wilderness area in Alabama and contains dozens of waterfalls.
Known as the "land of a thousand waterfalls", this National Forest is popular for hiking, horseback riding, hunting, boating, fishing, swimming, canoeing and more. Within the forest lies the Sipsey Wilderness , with a host of wildlife and an abundance of swift streams, limestone bluffs, and waterfalls.
Map from The Vikings team, or the Old Oregon Trail 1852–1906, by Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Barr Creek Falls in southern Oregon Benham Falls on the Deschutes River Kayaker heading over Bridal Veil Falls on Bridal Veil Creek in the Columbia Gorge Clearwater Falls on the Clearwater River in Douglas County Diamond Creek Falls Fairy Falls on Wahkeena Creek in the Columbia River Gorge Upper Horsetail Falls, also in the gorge Ki-a-Kuts Falls on the Tualatin River Latourell Falls in the ...
The trail is approximately 750 miles long, [2] with termini located near Bend, Oregon, and near the Idaho border at Lake Owyhee State Park. [3] [4] The route is on existing trails and across tracts of public land—mostly Bureau of Land Management, much of it wilderness study area. The west end of the trail is on the northern border of Oregon ...
Sabine National Forest borders the western side of Toledo Bend Reservoir and has 28 mi (45 km) of trails. The forest's only wilderness area is the Indian Mounds Wilderness. Old-growth forest can be found in the wilderness and at Mill Creek Cove along the reservoir's shores. [12]: 312–316 [44] Salmon–Challis: Idaho
Munson Creek Falls State Natural Site is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The park contains Munson Creek Falls, which is the tallest waterfall in Oregon's Coast Range. [2] A short hike of 0.5 miles (0.80 km) leads to views of the 319 feet (97 m) waterfall. [3]
The Oregon Buttes are small buttes, near the Oregon Trail, in what is now the state of Wyoming. They are just past South Pass , and are two flat-topped summits plus a smaller, conical one. For travelers on the Oregon Trail , the buttes were on the horizon for a day's travel, perhaps more.