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.
The land area of Bulgaria is 110,550 square kilometres (42,680 sq mi), slightly larger than that of Iceland or the U.S. state of Tennessee. The country is situated on the west coast of the Black Sea, with Romania to the north, Greece and Turkey to the south, and Serbia and Macedonia to the west.Considering its small size, Bulgaria has a great variety of topographical features.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.