Fourmile Canyon ~ From I-84, take exit 137, then drive four miles south on Hwy 19, east onto Eightmile Road for five miles, and then two miles to the site on Fourmile Canyon Road. Sections of this route follow gravel roads. This segment of the Oregon Trail was part of the difficult transit of the Columbia Plateau.
Located in the continent of Europe, Bulgaria covers 108,489 square kilometers of land and 2,390 square kilometers of water, making it the 105th largest nation in the world with a total area of 110,879 square kilometers. Bulgaria became an independent state in 1878, after gaining its sovereignty from Turkey.
Bulgaria is located on the border between the Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean ecozones. Part of the country has remained unaffected by the Ice Age, a result of which was survived some very old relict species from the Tertiary.he namesake of the Balkan Peninsula stretches from the Timok Valley in Serbia curving southward towards the Sofia Basin and reaching east to the Black Sea. The Balkan Range is about 600 km long and 30 to 50 km wide and it informally splits Bulgaria into a Northern and Southern halves.