Mount Pisgah (Lane County, Oregon)

Sign at base of Mount Pisgah Arboretum

Mount Pisgah is a hill in Lane County, Oregon, United States, rising 1,060 feet (320 m) above the surrounding Willamette Valley to a maximum elevation of 1,531 feet (467 m). It was named after the biblical Mount Pisgah.[1] It is situated between the Coast Fork and Middle Fork of the Willamette River, two miles (3 km) southeast of their confluence. Springfield is immediately north of Mount Pisgah, and the city of Eugene is a few miles west. It is the site of the 2363-acre (956 hectare) Howard Buford Recreation Area as well as the non-profit Mount Pisgah Arboretum at its base.

  1. ^ Lininger, Tom (8 May 2003). "Fee-for-all: watch out for new fees in lieu of taxes" Archived 2006-11-16 at the Wayback Machine. Eugene Weekly. Retrieved January 20, 2011.