Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway
Dutchman Flat, OR

Through nature's quirkiness, Dutchman Flat is an entirely different landscape than the rest of the byway and the area surrounding it: it's a small pumice desert which has not accumulated enough soil nutrients to sustain the growth of any plants except for a few extremely hearty plants such as pink-bloomed pussypaws and yellow-bloomed sulfur flowers.

Incidentally, parts of the movie How the West Was Won, starring Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum, were filmed in this area.