![]() Instead, park on the gravel shoulder on the right, where a gated service road drops to the lake. The park access road curves left, across the freeway overpass. ![]() You can visit the modern lake by taking the eastbound Rooster Rock State Park exit. ![]() While a lake flanked on one side by a freeway and a railroad on the other might not seem like a promising hiking destination, the views of Mirror Lake are just as spectacular today as they were when the first photographers visited Echo Bay in the 1880s. Mirror Lake, itself, has become a surprising haven for waterfowl, with flocks of geese, ducks and white egrets resting and nesting there - a surprising and welcome twist in an area so heavily impacted by human activity over the past 150 years. The State of Oregon has since been restoring the Young Creek lowland to its former natural state as a wildlife reserve, with a lush mosaic of tree stands, meadows, marshes and ponds. 1950s view of the Young Creek lowlands east of Mirror Lake and the (then) new Highway 30.
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