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 The Trail to Terwilliger Stroll a short and densely beautiful trail into Terwilliger Hot Springs, on the Aufderheide Highway between Oadkride and Blue River, Oregon. Oregon Lakes & Rivers Staff Photo |
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Good Clean Naked Fun Terwilliger Hot Springs on the Aufderheide Highway  I would have like to have been the explorer, Hirman Terwilliger, some 150 years ago, who stumbled upon the cascading pools of hot water that tumbled out of the mountainside near the McKenzie River.
What we now call Cougar, or Terwilliger, Hot Springs must have been a welcome sight for an adventurer long on a wet and chilly trail. The five-tiered springs gets its source from a small grotto and bubbles out at steamy 113 degrees. Overllow from the upper pool creates a waterfall that drops about five feet into the next pool. Each succeeding pool, resting on solid granite slabs, drops about five degrees in temperature. Get the details, links and maps, here
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Expanding Boundaries: The Colorado River
Eastern Utah: The land spreads out in low, muted rises, as if time has drained out all the color and any hint of plant life. Peaks rise up in worn geometrical shapes: squares, oblongs, rectangles, pyramids and slanting triangles, rubbed soft from the wind and rain.
In the far distance we can see the La Sal Mountains to the east. Dark purple, by contrast, these mountains rise high and grand into the sky, and seem to belong by nature to Colorado instead of Utah. To my mind, it is as if Utah alone has been singled out, and the elements of time and air that has drained its colors and softened its shapes has stopped near its borders. Read More.
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