Blogs from Crater Lake, Oregon, United States, North America - page 6

We left Yellowstone National Park at 6:00am and went on the longest journey of the whole trip to try and reach our destination of Crater Lake in Oregon. Rob had read up on this area and was adamant that this was the place he wanted to go more than anywhere else. We were not disappointed. The journey itself was something out of Top Gear with some of the best roads and scenery I have ever driven with Mountainous ranges and very long straight roads (just like the movies). This was great fun for all three of us and was one of the best experiences of the whole trip. The one down point was that the ever reliable Prius was not a soft top which would of made the journey truly amazing. The one thing that surprised ... read more

Crater Lake, OR I must admit, I had never heard of Crater Lake, OR; maybe that made it even better. The water was an intense blue color and the views were spectacular to say the least or at least that is what the video at the visitor’s center said. It rained very heavy both night's and was very foggy in the mornings. We went for a ride but the visibility was about 20 feet so we headed back to camp and cracked a few bottles of wine and just relaxed…… The weather cleared a little by mid day and we hiked one of the trails near our camp site (after all that wine we could only walk ….no driving) WHAT A WONDERFUL TRIP ! ... read more

3rd July, 2008. On this first day of Ashadha - Ashadhamase prathama divase - the 3rd July, 2008, we started for a visit to Crater Lake which is at a distance of about 450 Miles from Fremont, CA. Another family, Mr.Sandeep Gandhi, a colleague of my son Sridhar, also participated in this tour. We, my wife(Girija), son(Sridhar), d-in-law(Anupama), and their two sons (kids of the ages of five years and three months old) started in our Honda Odyssey Van. Mr.Sandeep along with his wife Sheethal and two kids - one son aged 4 years and a daughter 2 years old - started in their Hyundai Ellantra Car, from their residence in Sunnyvale. The tour was planned on the eve of long week end, the 4th July, the Independance Day of USA falling on Friday. We started ... read more

On the way to Portland we decided to take a roundabout route to swing by crater lake. We felt slightly foolish when we realized there were FEET of snow on the ground and we were wearing shorts. Also, got extremely lost on our way out as multiple roads were closed due to the fact that apparently there june = winter (snow was blocking them) and had to drive hours out of the way to get to portland. We weren't quite driven to tears by its spectacular beauty (like many reviewers apparently were)... but it was really cool, and worth the extra miles! ....onwaaard!...... read more

We write from the Prospect Inn and Motel, a Historic Inn on route 62 to Crater Lake. We are in the Zane Grey Room (he apparently stayed here). I don't think I've ever read a Zane Grey novel but that wasn't a requirement. I thought I would recap our trip over the last week or so. After we left the Hoh Rainforest, home of the Banana Slug, we hit parts of the Washington coast on our way to Astoria, OR. The WA coast, where accessible, is mostly shallow inlets and mudflats, filled with Canada Geese, ducks and herons. Not quite as scenic as Oregon's. The area, in general, appeared somewhat economically hard-hit with shacks and trailer parks. Maybe the decrease in logging has caused problems (although you wouldn't know it from the number of trucks on ... read more