Northeast and Northwest tour

[gudmund]

enough on the two Vancouver's (we here on the left coast have the same "problem" with the two Washington's - there's Washington and there's Washington D.C. - enough said !!) Follow Brian's direction and you will enjoy it!! I have driven most of these roads he specks of here (was with him & Sandi on one of the trips - GREAT!!) You will enjoy it and the parks he speaks are also Great!! Madras is the real eye opener - drove by there off and on over the years and never knew it was even there until they showed it to me!! Take care and enjoy!!

[capnTelescope]

Madras is the real eye opener

OK, I'm looking at the Madras area on google maps and I'm not getting it. What's to see? The town itself looks ordinary. Is it the drive in & out? side trips? What am I looking for?

[Vedette]

OKay....Madras is just a town. And you don't even have to see it if you are coming in from the south.
Cove Palisades is 5 or 6 miles south of Madras in Culver.
Google "Lake Billy Chinook"
Brian

[Vedette]

Brad
Please PM me your e-mail address and I can send pictures (that don't do it justice"
Brian

[Vedette]

Have you googled the painted hills yet?
And the SP I spoke of for Sunday night, is Clyde Holiday 8 miles west of John Day $20.00/night very very nice!
I think Ted has a favorite over near Roseburg??
We always stay a little mom & pop campground on the river at McKenzie Bridge when we are crossing over the mountains (it is a bit pricy, but they are always happy to see us and they have a laundry?)
Brian

[Wolffarmer]

Wow, you have pretty good trip planed. If you through John Day Oregon try to included the fossil beds. That route will also put you through Burns Oregon where the recent stand off between some people and the Feds happened. In that area is the Alvord Desert. A pretty good sized dry lake bed. And the Frenchman's barn. I think Frenchman is the name, something like that. It is a big barn. Ok, why should someone include a barn in the desert on a trip? It is big, it is remote. but it is also round. Well it floats my boat.

If you are coming from the East you night be kind of on the track of Montana or Wyoming. Then instead of swinging south to meet up for the Mordor misadventure. Head to Arco Idaho, Then the highway to the northern part of Craters of the Moon for a visit to the tourist part of it. There is a camp ground there. Then head to Carry and toward Shoshone but at Richfield take the road to Dietrich and to Idaho highway 24. Hang a left to head east to the Kimama meeting area. That cuts off a few miles Richfield will probably be last chance for gas. I do not think Dietrich has a gas station. Richfield may not have gas either. If you don't find gas in Richfield go on to Shoshone for gas. That will add about 20 miles.

[Vedette]

Hi Randy
I thought you were coming too?
Are you going to the IRG?
I was trying to have Brad avoid 395 south of John Day, and come the "Pretty Route" via the painted hills.
Read back a few posts on the last page.
Brian

[capnTelescope]

Randy, are you going to IRG? Or did you schedule Mordor for the rest of us that are?

[capnTelescope]

Have you googled the painted hills yet?

Just did. It's pretty much as I expected from the name: a must see.

Then instead of swinging south to meet up for the Mordor misadventure...

There is no "instead" unless I'm unavoidably delayed.

[gudmund]

Madras got you to the right area for Cove Palisades - hey, I've only been there once and it was following Brian & Sandi and YES it was worth it!!!! along with the Painted Hills!! Can't say as much for Burn, Ore, The most exciting thing there was me looking down trying to read a map and looking back up only to realize Brian had turned left and I missed it. When the big "stand off" happened a few months ago, that getting lost incident was the only reason I even remembered that neck of the .....s?? - there weren't even any woods to remember, just a lot of nothing there, but we did talk to a nice lady at the Safeway store about her winged Shasta trailer she had just bought.

[Wolffarmer]

I guess I am not going to IRG. Haven't gotten a reservation. And I really should get back to work after Mordor. We are really behind this year.

[rowerwet]

If you are crossing NH on rt 95 during the day, take rt 1A and 1B instead, and see all 15 miles of the NH coast, with great views of the ocean along most of it. There are no other stretches of road with ocean views like it in new England.

[capnTelescope]

see all 15 miles of the NH coast

I'll be darned. I never realized NH was on the coast. It's on the way to Bar Harbor. Thanks for the tip!

Madras got you to the right area for Cove Palisades

I get it now. Madras isn't a destination, it's part of the journey. A place that if you're going there, you'll see interesting stuff along the way.

And I really should get back to work after Mordor.

Work is the curse of the camping class.

you might be kind of on the track of Montana or Wyoming.

I'll be cutting across the southern side of WY on the way to Mordor. A '71 road trip with the family took us through WY to MT. It was the year I turned 21, but that didn't happen until July, so it must have been a May-June spring trip. Elk in the pasture along the road out of Jackson Hole, bears in Yellowstone, Grandma and Aunt Lenore in Butte. Oh my!

[wildcatphotography]

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[capnTelescope]

one might consider Crater Lake.

I don't have anything planned after IRG, other than heading generally homeward, so one might consider that.