Oregon or what to do after Glacier
We're Floridians and try to head west every summer. We are teachers so we have the luxury of time. We've fallen in love with Colorado (RMNP, Ouray, Durango, Ridgway),Utah (Zion, Bryce, DHP and Moab) a...
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We did the coast from Crescent City, actually a bit south of there up to the end of 101 looping all the way around Olympic NP. A very good trip, rain is to be expected. We daytriped to Crater Lake and we started this by visiting Lassen Volcanic NP which is definately worth a 3 or 4 day visit.
We made zero reservations but we stayed at commercial cg all the way up. We'd just call ahead in early afternoon get a spot where we wanted to stop. Only had to call a second park once. But we missed out on what I understand are the excellent state parks along 101. For those, especially on weekends, you want a reservation probably.
Olympic is one of those parks with no thru roads, only roads which poke into the park from the outside. And it really rains around that park. We never got to Hurricane Ridge because of the continuous downpour. Anyway we stayed at two cg, one in Forks on the west side one one on the Hood Canal on the east side.
This summer we plan to do the east side of Washington and Oregon with a quick dip down into the Evil Empire to revisit Lassen. We'll be doing the North cascades and lots of state parks along with the Columbia.
We spent a good chunk of last summer in Idaho, went all the way up the west side of the state to Bonner's Ferry, almost in Canada, on US 95. Wanted to spend more time in the Sawtooths but again were defeated by the weather. We'll try again this summer when we will have more time.
We made zero reservations but we stayed at commercial cg all the way up. We'd just call ahead in early afternoon get a spot where we wanted to stop. Only had to call a second park once. But we missed out on what I understand are the excellent state parks along 101. For those, especially on weekends, you want a reservation probably.
Olympic is one of those parks with no thru roads, only roads which poke into the park from the outside. And it really rains around that park. We never got to Hurricane Ridge because of the continuous downpour. Anyway we stayed at two cg, one in Forks on the west side one one on the Hood Canal on the east side.
This summer we plan to do the east side of Washington and Oregon with a quick dip down into the Evil Empire to revisit Lassen. We'll be doing the North cascades and lots of state parks along with the Columbia.
We spent a good chunk of last summer in Idaho, went all the way up the west side of the state to Bonner's Ferry, almost in Canada, on US 95. Wanted to spend more time in the Sawtooths but again were defeated by the weather. We'll try again this summer when we will have more time.
