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Long before Crater Lake became a national park in 1902, visitors stopped on their way to see the nation's deepest lake at the only lodging and dining establishment along the Upper Rogue River: a Victorian-era house in Southern Oregon's remote Prospect.

Over time, the stagecoach stop and roadhouse grew to become the famous Prospect Historic Hotel Bed and Breakfast Inn–Motel and Dinner House, a resort destination for travelers, food and wine fans, as well as hikers, birders, cyclists and groups participating in classic car rallies, artist workshops and social clubs.

The Oregonian reports the historic property 21 miles southwest of Crater Lake National Park is for sale at $3 million, but lodging and homemade meals are still available.

The three-story, 5,492-square-foot main house, which includes the 10-room bed and breakfast hotel and a 50-seat dinner house, is surrounded by park-like grounds with evergreen and deciduous trees including a giant sequoia. Rooms in the hotel are named after famous guests: President Teddy Roosevelt, who established five national parks, including Crater Lake, as well as writers Jack London and Zane Grey, orator William Jennings Bryan and environmental advocate John Muir.

The property also has 14 motel rooms and a two-story, 2,700 square-foot log house with a wraparound deck built on its own tax lot in 1990. The log house with a detached garage could be a vacation or long-term rental, manager's residence or employee housing, according to the listing brokers.

The land, with grandfathered water rights, is adjacent to Mill Creek, which links to Mill Creek Falls and the Rogue River. Other outbuildings on the four tax lots include a large lighted gazebo with barbecue pits and a barn near a fenced corral.