Roadside Oregon

Mt Hood from Hood River Valley above Parkdale looking towards the mountain.

I don’t have the exact location, but once you are in the area, you will see this view.  You can see the area in a Google Map here.

I think that these animals are Desert Mountain Sheep.  There are photographs of some at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center and these look like the animals in the photographs.  If these are not Desert Mountain Sheep, please let me know and I will update the information on this page.

We saw them crossing the Hwy-140 East of Lakeview in Central Oregon.  They traveled in a small herd of about eight animals.

You can see a view of the area here at Google Maps.

This view of theThree Sisters from a pullout along the Forest Service road is on the way to the Boy Scout camp ‘Camp Melakwa’. The Camp is accessed 14 miles up Forest road 2649 off Highway 126 near the McKenzie Pass Hwy-242 junction with Hwy-126 east of Eugene. This view is about 10 miles in. You can not miss this view to the right side of the road.

You can see a Google Map of the are here.

This is a view from Hwy-214 between Salem and Silver Falls State Park.  Depending on the time of year, the view can vary widely.

You can see the location here here at Google Maps.

Aufderheide Memorial Drive is reached from the Eugene-Springfield area either by traveling the McKenzie Highway (Hwy. 126) to a point 3.5 miles above Blue River or by traveling Highway 58 and then turning north to Westfir. The road travels along the South Fork of the McKenzie River and the North Fork of the Willamette River and through Box Canyon.

You can follow the road at Google Maps here. This road, formerly called Forest Road 19, North Fork Road, and sometimes called the “Box Canyon Road”, is now called the Aufderheide Memorial Drive or Aufderheide Scenic Drive.  Like many other scenic drives, it is worth the trip.

This is one of the views of he North Fork of the Willamette River taken from the roadside.

The North Santiam River near sunset one evening. This is the view from the side of the road. There a few miles/km where the river on the south/west side of the Hwy-22 between Detroit and Santiam Pass here (Google Maps). For about 10 minutes going in either direction on the highway, you will see views like this.
This particular photograph was a 30 second exposure.

Again, not a photograph of a particular place in Oregon, just a photograph that was taken in Oregon.

Tulips from our yard.