The Rock Corral on the Barlow Road is a
glacial erratic, on
Oregon's Barlow Road, itself a new route on the
Oregon Trail.
Its location
It is on the way to
Marmot, where the Barlow Road then goes southwest cross the Devil's Backbone and back across the
Sandy River Sandy River may refer to:
Rivers in the United States
* Sandy River (Chandler Bay), Jonesport, Maine
* Sandy River (Kennebec River) in Maine
* Sandy River (Mississippi River), a tributary of the Mississippi River in Minnesota
* Sandy River (Red Lak ...
.
It is in
Clackamas County
Clackamas County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City. The county was named after the Native ...
, and was at the end of the Oregon Trail's most difficult, most dangerous passage over the
Cascade Mountains. The Barlow Tollgate was once there.
References
External links and references
BLM siteGoogle site
Glacial erratics of the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Clackamas County, Oregon
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