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Mount Pisgah (Lane County, Oregon) Coordinates: 44°00′26″N 122°57′51″W. Sign at base of Mount Pisgah Arboretum. Mount Pisgah is a hill in Lane County, Oregon, United States, rising 1,060 feet (320 m) above the surrounding Willamette Valley to a maximum elevation of 1,531 feet (467 m). It was named after the biblical Mount Pisgah. [1]
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. It was used during the 19th century by Great Plains pioneers who were seeking fertile land in the West ...
Two hiking trails are located in the area. The Walton Lake Trail is a one-mile loop around the lake while Round Mountain National Scenic Trail is a 7.5-mile (12.1 km) hike that offers the opportunity to see high-country wildlife and many varieties of birds. The campground is 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level.
The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [ 1 ] east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what is now the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The western half crossed the current states of ...
The Mount Pisgah Arboretum (85 ha / 209 acres) is a non-profit arboretum and botanical garden located within the Howard Buford Recreation Area (930 ha / 2,300 acre), between the Coast Fork of the Willamette River and the slopes of Mount Pisgah near Eugene - Springfield, Oregon, United States. The Friends of Mount Pisgah Arboretum was ...
Mount Pisgah is a mountain in the Appalachian mountain range and part of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, United States.The mountain's height is 5,721 feet (1,744 m) above sea level, and it sits approximately 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Asheville, near the crossing of the boundaries of Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Transylvania counties.
Mount Pisgah (Quebec), in Appalachian Mountains, at the border of Quebec and Maine. Mount Pisgah (Bible), the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time. Mount Pisgah (Smith Island), in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Mount Pisgah (Victoria), a small volcanic lava dome in Australia.
The Butter Gap Project, a partnership of Pisgah Area SORBA, the Pisgah Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service, includes a newly aligned Butter Gap Trail, which adds over 4.5 miles of multi-use ...