Please critique my itinerary to WA/OR
We're planning a six week trip from western VA to WA and OR in Sept./Oct. There are some people we plan to meet up with out there, so our itinerary has to mesh with the times they are available. So I'...
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rp18104 wrote:
As part of my research, I did investigate the weather for the past few years during Sept./early Oct. in many of the areas in which we will be traveling. I found that the average temps and precipitation over the past few years (throwing out the extreme few days here and there, which are to be expected during the course of a month), were perfectly acceptable to us.
We will gladly take the cooler temps in Sept. to the crowds one would encounter a month earlier...
The beauty of having a flexible off season itinerary is that it can be altered if bad weather threatens.
Well, if you are ok with it...
Personally, I would do the inland mountain/desert part first, and the coast/Seattle part after. Your not going to have crowds anywhere, after Sep 1st when school starts. The northwest is not the Grand Canyon :). I would not think about crowds at all, except for sunny weekends on the coast. And even then.
As people have said, rain happens off and on in Oct. in the coast and valleys, but it's usually not real cold. Snow and ice in the mountain passes, though. And when does the road up to Crater Lake close?
