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Mickey Basin

April 7, 2015 by Oregon Photo

Mickey Basin is a 4-mile long depression in the dry desert playa in the shadow of the Steens Mountain in Southern Oregon. Mickey Hot Springs and Mickey Butte are the two notable attractions in the basin. Located north of the Alvord Desert playa, the basin is split into two distinct valleys by a dark ridge that runs south from the Sheepshead Mountain Range. Mickey Butte is the highest point of this ridge at 6,294 feet. This alkali flat desert is […]

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Alvord Desert

October 8, 2012 by Oregon Photo

The Alvord Desert, located near the southeastern corner of Oregon, rivals the splendor and solitude of many of the better known desert playa landscapes in Nevada or California and is an under-appreciated jewel of the state of Oregon. With the Steens Mountain looming to the west, the alkali flat of the Alvord Desert is not only one of the largest in Oregon, but it is the most remote and sensationally wild. The flat stretches 6 miles wide and 11 miles […]

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