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Central Oregon is best known for its recreational towns and lakes, as they offer the dryer more arid climate found along the eastern slopes of the Cascades. Bend is its largest community and is Oregon's premier destination offering 35 golf courses, access to more than 300 high lakes, and world-class fishing. Just south of Bend, sits the unincorporated, organized community of Sunriver. Sunriver specializes in recreation offering its 1,500 residents and many more visitors' year-round facilities.
Sisters, named after the three mountain peaks Faith, Hope and Charity, and the Deschutes River area, is another popular destination for visitors. Nearby Warm Springs Indian Reservation is an austere desert landscape where ominous ravines, lonely pines and brooding solitary buttes are guarded over by the snow-capped peaks of Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson.
A one-hundred mile scenic Cascade Lakes Highway winds through the central Cascade Mountains exposing a pageantry of spectacular craggy peaks. Stunningly beautiful Sparks & Elks Lakes, Hosmer Lake, Lava Lake and numerous other sparkling lakes and streams along the route offer good hiking, camping, canoeing, and fishing. In the winter, rustic ski resorts keep the area alive.
Twenty-two miles southwest of Bend, sits Mt. Bachelor, one of the northwest's largest ski areas offering skiers and snowboarders ten lifts (7 high-speed). 71 lifts run 3,100 vertical feet of dry-powder and groomed slopes. |
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