An overview of our trip to Crater Lake, N.P. in Oregon
We were visiting family in Portland, OR, so our trip began in Lake Oswego, OR - a pretty town just south of Portland. We drove a little over an hour to Albany to see the beautiful carousel and have a delicious lunch at Brick and Mortar. Albany is a cute town along the Williamette River. The downtown has many buildings from the early 19th C. that are restored and in use. We could have spent another hour or two exploring. We continued down I-5. We hit some traffic around Eugene. After about two hours, we stopped at Cascades coffee shop in Roseburg. Cascades is open later than many other coffee shops in the area. It is a little hard to find, because it is across the parking lot from a State goverment building which is what you notice first. Full of coffee, we drove another hour along Hwy. 138. It quickly becomes forest with only a few towns, such as Glide. The road is two-lanes and very well maintained and fairly straight an...
