View From Cascade Dam Of The North Fork Of The Payette River
by Robert Bales
Title
View From Cascade Dam Of The North Fork Of The Payette River
Artist
Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
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This beautiful view of the North Fork of the Payette River was taken from the the Cascade Dam just out of Cascade, Idaho. It is a walking distance from the Lake Cascade State Park.
The North Fork Payette River is a river in western Idaho in the United States. It stretches over 113 miles (182 km) from north to south, flowing from the Salmon River Mountains to near Banks, where it joins with the South Fork Payette River to form the Payette River, a tributary of the Snake River. Its watershed comprises more than 900 square miles (2,300 km2) of forested mountains and sprawling lakes and wetlands.
The river leaves the Cascade Dam at Cascade and 5 mi (8.0 km) later enters a gorge, leaving the Long Valley. Idaho State Highway 55 follows the river as it courses south-southwest through the canyon. The gorge starts out as a valley only about 700 feet (210 m) deep, but as the river nears the mouth, it attains its maximum depth below the rim at nearly 3,000 feet (910 m). The North Fork joins with the South Fork near the village of Banks, at an elevation of 2,825 feet (861 m). From there, the river is known as the main stem of the Payette and flows 62 miles (100 km) further west to its confluence with the Snake River near Ontario, Oregon.
It rises at the confluence of two small streams, Trail Creek and Cloochman Creek, in a meadow deep within the Payette National Forest. The river flows south into Upper Payette Lake then further in that direction through a deep valley into Payette Lake, which lies at the northern end of Long Valley. The river exits from the southern end of the lake near McCall and flows southwards through the broad valley into Lake Cascade, a huge reservoir formed by Cascade Dam. While part of the lake, the North Fork Payette River receives the Lake Fork, its largest tributary, which descends from the mountains to the northeast.
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Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #13 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.....L/F/Tw
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations on your wonderful artwork being featured in Camera Art! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive thread! group as well as any other thread in which it would fit! ! LF
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This beautiful image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Forests and Woodlands” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “Featured Images – February 2018” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. That you for your participation in the “Forests and Woodlands” group! ~Jan
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks so much Jan for the wonderful feature and being the feature of the week!! It is greatly appreciated!!