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The Three Sisters and nearby Broken Top account for about a third of the Three Sisters Wilderness, and this area is known as the Alpine Crest Region. Rising from about 5,200 ft (1,600 m) to 10,358 ft (3,157 m) in elevation, the Alpine Crest Region features the wilderness area's most-frequented glaciers, lakes, and meadows.
The Three Sisters, the city's namesake mountains. Sisters is the headquarters of the Sisters District of the Deschutes National Forest. The Sisters Ranger District Office is located at Pine Street and Highway 20. [18] Hiking, biking and horse riding trails go from the city limits into the Three Sisters Wilderness.
The Three Sisters Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Cascade Range, within the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests in Oregon, United States. It comprises 286,708 acres (1,160.27 km 2 ), making it the second largest wilderness area in Oregon, after the Eagle Cap Wilderness .
Broken Top is a glacially eroded complex stratovolcano.It lies in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, part of the extensive Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon.Located southeast of the Three Sisters peaks, the volcano, residing within the Three Sisters Wilderness, [4] is 20 miles (32 km) west of Bend, Oregon in Deschutes County.
Mount Bachelor from Little Lava Lake (southwest of the mountain). Mount Bachelor lies in the Cascade Range, within Deschutes County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. [2] It is located south of the Three Sisters complex volcano, [5] and reaches an elevation of 9,068 feet (2,764 m).
The Willamette National Forest is a National Forest located in the central portion of the Cascade Range of the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] It comprises 1,678,031 acres (6,790.75 km 2 ). Over 380,000 acres (694 mi 2 , 1,540 km 2 ) are designated wilderness which include seven major mountain peaks.
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Belknap Crater lies to the north of the Three Sisters, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located within Linn County, [1] [2] it is part of the central Oregon segment of the Cascade Range. [3] L. A. McArthur and L. L. McArthur (1984) described Belknap as "one of the important features of the Cascade Range."