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95962 [2] Area code. 530. Oregon House is an unincorporated community in Yuba County, California. It is located 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Marysville, [3] at an elevation of 1526 feet (465 m). The settlement grew up around a travelers' rest stop built in 1852. [3] A post office was established at Oregon House in 1854, closed in 1902, and ...
Fourteener. Coordinates: 63.0690°N 151.0063°W. Denali (Mt. McKinley), at 20,310 ft (6,190 m), is the tallest mountain in the United States. In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 ft (4267 m). The 96 fourteeners in the United States are all west of the ...
List of California 14,000-foot summits. Coordinates: 36.5786°N 118.2920°W. Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91. ...
Josh Naylor hit two homers and drove in five runs, David Fry hit a tie-breaking three-run home run in the seventh inning, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Colorado Rockies 13-7 on Tuesday night.
Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century. The road was named for frontiersman Stephen Meek, who was hired to lead the first wagon train along it in 1845. The journey was a particularly hard one, and ...
Recreation is any human activity done for pleasure (or "play") during leisure time as opposed to those activities that are necessary for survival.Historically, this means that recreation only existed after human society reached the stage where leisure time existed, perhaps during the late stone age (Upper Paleolithic), as shown by the first appearance of cave paintings and musical instruments.
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That trail took them past Courthouse and Jail Rocks, Chimney Rock, Scotts Bluff, Fort Laramie, and Independence Rock. The Bartleson-Bidwell party separated from Fitzpatrick, and the missionary group, at Soda Springs on 11 Aug.: 8–12 The Trail. The western Emigration Society had resolved to follow the route suggested by Dr. John Marsh. As ...