amandasgramma wrote:
I'll tell you the route we'd take if we were going thru Oregon this month.
Newport to Lincoln City
Lincoln City to Salem (hwy 20)
Salem to Bend (Hwy 20)
Bend to Ontario and then catch 84
Uhhhh...actually, the road from Lincoln City to Salem is Hwy 18. Hwy 20 goes east out of Newport over to Corvallis. Hwy 20 out of Newport has been under construction for several years and I think it is still not completed. So that stretch has a lot of curves. However, I still think it's better to take 20 than to have to go north to Lincoln City and then over to Salem as going through Lincoln city is always busy with traffic not to mention having to go through Salem.
Once in Corvallis if you continue on 20, it goes through downtown Corvallis up to and through busy Albany and then over to Lebanon. Better to catch 34 out of Corvallis (before you go downtown) over to Lebanon and then back on 20. But then you have to go up and over Santiam Pass...ugh...not good!
We usually take 20/34 to I5 and then north to Salem and take 22 over to Sisters and back on 20 to Bend and across Oregon to I84 in Idaho. 84 south to I15 and then east on I80 across to Wyoming and down to Colorado on I25.
works for us...
Ron