![]() ![]() mountain lakes, to have among the most chemically pure water known of all lakes on the globe. Several of the lakes were found, by 1980s-90s Environmental Protection Agency baseline study of acid-rain conditions in Western U.S. You'll find creeks and ice-cold springs, grassy meadows, and scores of clear sub-alpine lakes. All of southern Oregon seems to lie at your feet from the rugged summit of volcano Mount McLoughlin (9,495’), and then extends out northward into Sky Lakes' broad plateau-like ridges, dotted with many lakes. It includes three major lake basins as it stretches along the crest of the volcanic Cascade Mountains from the border of Crater Lake National Park on the north to State Highway 140 in the south: Seven Lakes, Sky Lakes, and Blue Canyon basins. Congress designated Sky Lakes Wilderness in 1984 which now maintains 113,849 acres.
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