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Prospect is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies along Oregon Route 62 on the Rogue River, in the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 455.
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  • 1. Crater Lake National Park Crater Lake National Park
    Crater Lake is a crater lake in south-central Oregon in the western United States. It is the main feature of Crater Lake National Park and is famous for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fills a nearly 2,148-foot -deep caldera that was formed around 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. There are no rivers flowing into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for by rain and snowfall at a rate such that the total amount of water is replaced every 250 years. With a depth of 1,949 feet , the lake is the deepest in the United States. In the world, it ranks ninth for maximum depth, and third for mean depth.Crater Lake is also known for the Old Man of the Lake, a full-sized tree which is now a log that has been bobbing vertically in the lake...
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  • 2. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Boothbay
    Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in Boothbay, Maine. Opened in 2007, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens invites visitors of all ages and abilities to create and to explore meaningful connections to plants and nature at their own pace. The Gardens has been named one of Maine’s top attractions . Its gardens and landscape include nearly a mile of tidal saltwater. As the largest botanical garden in New England, the Gardens comprises 295 acres, 17 of which are gardens featuring native plants of Maine and other plants suited to northern coastal conditions. Yearly, the Gardens sees on average 200,000 guests from throughout the United States and 63 foreign countries.
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  • 3. Schoodic Point Winter Harbor
    Acadia National Park is an American national park located in the state of Maine, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park reserves most of Mount Desert Island and its associated smaller islands along the coast of Maine. Initially designated Sieur de Monts National Monument by presidential proclamation in 1916, the park was renamed and redesignated as Lafayette National Park in 1919. The park was renamed Acadia National Park in 1929.More than 3.5 million people visited the park in 2017. Acadia National Park is the oldest national park in the United States east of the Mississippi River and is the only one in the Northeast United States.
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  • 4. Wildlife Safari Winston
    Wildlife Safari is a safari park in Winston, Oregon, United States. It is home to hundreds of animals that wander freely over the 600-acre park, which guests can drive through. The park also includes a walkthrough exhibit displaying some of the park's smaller animals. It has Oregon's only African elephants and maned wolves as of 2009.The safari has been member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums since 1986, one of only three such animal attractions in the state.
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  • 5. Wizard Island Crater Lake National Park
    Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The top of the island reaches 6,933 feet above sea level, about 755 feet above the average surface of the lake. The cone is capped by a volcanic crater about 500 feet wide and 100 feet deep. The crater was named the Witches Cauldron by William Gladstone Steel in 1885, who also gave Wizard Island its name at the same time. The land area of the island is 315.85 acres .
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  • 6. Rogue River Gorge Viewpoint Prospect Oregon
    The Rogue River in southwestern Oregon in the United States flows about 215 miles in a generally westward direction from the Cascade Range to the Pacific Ocean. Known for its salmon runs, whitewater rafting, and rugged scenery, it was one of the original eight rivers named in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. Beginning near Crater Lake, which occupies the caldera left by the explosive volcanic eruption of Mount Mazama, the river flows through the geologically young High Cascades and the older Western Cascades, another volcanic province. Further west, the river passes through multiple exotic terranes of the more ancient Klamath Mountains. In the Kalmiopsis Wilderness section of the Rogue basin are some of the world's best examples of rocks that form the Earth's mantle. Near the mouth ...
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  • 7. Union Creek Trail Prospect Oregon
    During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states. Also known as the Federal Army, it proved essential to the preservation of the United States of America as a working, viable republic. The Union Army was made up of the permanent regular army of the United States, but further fortified, augmented, and strengthened by the many temporary units of dedicated volunteers as well as including those who were drafted in to service as conscripts. To this end, the Union Army fought and ultimately triumphed over the efforts of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. Over the course of the war, 2,128,948 men enlisted in the Union Army, including 178,895 colored troops; 25% of the whi...
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  • 8. Mill Creek Falls Prospect Oregon
    Mill Creek Falls, is a waterfall located in the Rogue River Canyon within the Prospect State Scenic Viewpoint in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The waterfall is located at the south end of Mill Creek as it plunges into the Rogue River over a carved cliff surrounded by walls of petrified volcanic ash consequence of Mount Mazama eruption. Mill Creek Falls shares the same rock cliff with Barr Creek Falls. Both waterfalls can be seen next to each other from their respective viewpoints. With a height of 173 feet, Mill Creek Falls is among the tallest waterfalls in Oregon.
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