Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later" "Mirror Lake, Oregon"

Includes ... Mirror Lake ... Young Creek ... Latourell Creek ... Rooster Rock State Park ... Crown Point ...

Click image to enlarge Mirror Lake, waterfall, and Crown Point as seen from Interstate 84, Oregon. View from moving car. Image taken April 9, 2015. Mirror Lake ... Latourell Creek merges with Young Creek (Shepperd's Dell) and flows westward across the flats of Rooster Rock State Park, forming Mirror Lake. Mirror Lake then flows past the base of Crown Point where it merges with the Columbia at Columbia River Mile (RM) 129, at the Rooster Rock boat ramp. "Mirror Lake" is depicted on topographic maps, however the U.S. Geologic Survey's Geographic Names database (2014) has no listing. Mirror Lake can be nicely seen from the eastbound lanes of Interstate 84. Better views can be had from the I-84 exit ramp to Rooster Rock State Park. From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ... Clark, ... Return to Menu

*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003 Sources:    All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.

/Regions/Places/mirror_lake.html June 2014