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The Enchantments is a region within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area of Washington state's Cascade Mountain Range. [2] At an elevation of 4,500 feet (1,372 m), it is home to over 700 alpine lakes and ponds surrounded by the vast peaks of Cashmere Crags, which rate among the best rock-climbing sites in the western United States. [3]
The Twin Lakes basin is a frequented location by mountain goats. [4] A census in 2019 yielded 100 goats in the Twin Lakes basin, approximately a third of the goats in the Elkhorn mountain range. The population was established after 21 goats were released between 1983 and 1986 along the Pine Creek drainage, a short distance north of the Twin ...
Honey Lake recreational activities include bird watching, picnicking, hiking, camping, warm-water fishing, and waterfowl hunting. The lake is part of the Honey– Eagle Lakes watershed of 2,770 sq mi (7,200 km 2 ) [ 5 ] which includes the Honey Lake Basin of 2,201 sq mi (5,700 km 2 ).
Virginia Lakes refers to a basin of lakes in the Eastern Sierra Nevada in Mono County, California. [1] Virginia Lakes is located a few miles off U.S. Highway 395 ; the road to the lakes turns off U.S. 395 at Conway Summit , roughly halfway between Bridgeport, California , to the north and Lee Vining, California , to the south, in the Humboldt ...
The lake completely dried up in the years 1851, 1852, 1926, 1929–1934, 1992, [8] 2009, and 2013-2015. Goose Lake overflowed into the Pit River watershed in 1868. [9] Formerly, Goose Lake was the regular source of the Pit River, but water diversion has caused the lake level to drop below its outlet.
Tulare Lake was the largest of several lakes in its lower basin. Most of the Kern River's flow first went into Kern Lake and Buena Vista Lake via the Kern River and Kern River Slough southwest and south of the site of Bakersfield. If they overflowed, it was through the Kern River channel northwest through tule marshland and Goose Lake, into ...
Malheur Lake is a remnant of a much larger Pleistocene lake that drained east to the Malheur River, a tributary of the Snake River. [1] [5] The size of this ancient lake, which existed during a wetter climate, has been estimated at 900 square miles (2,300 km 2), with a maximum depth of 35 feet (11 m).
North–South Lake is an 1,100-acre (4.4 km 2) state campground in the Catskill Forest Preserve near Palenville, New York operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation near the site of the historic Catskill Mountain House overlooking the Hudson River. The escarpment on which the lakes are located is at 2,250 feet (685. ...