Continuing on

We left off in Arco, ID and traveled through Burns, OR for a one night stop onto our next destination, Collier Memorial SP. This is our location for five nights to explore SW Oregon and visit Crater Lake.  Our first full day here, we drove down to Klamath Falls, visited the Visitor center for the area and picnicked at the Memorial park.  I had read that the Link River trail was a favorite destination here to walk, but after a quarter of a mile of the one mile trail we turned around as it was totally unimpressive.  There was a museum at the trail head I would have liked to explore but we had the dogs with us, so that didn't work as it is much too warm to leave them in the truck even for a few minutes. 

We arrived back at camp just in time to attend the Dutch oven cooking demonstration at the logging museum across the road, that is part of the park.  That was a complete waste of time.  The ranger was unorganized and very lacking in her presentation.  She could not give an informed knowledgable answer on any question that Dave asked her. We left after a half hour.  It was supposed to be a 3 hour demonstration but in the half hour we sat there only a few other people stopped by and none of them stayed.  I wanted to feel sorry for her, but with her whole approach or lack thereof, it was hard to feel sympathetic.  

The museum was also poorly done in my opinion.  They had lots of logging equipment set out in decent displays but no descriptions or naming, so unless you are a logger or former logger you had no idea what a particular piece of equipment was or how it was used.   

On our way to Collier, we drove through Bend, OR.  I would like to spend more time in that area in the future, but it may have to be another trip as our route will not take us through there again.  We stopped at the Newberry Volcanic National Monument and did the one mile loop.  There are quite a few additional walking trails but with the dogs this short loop worked the best.  It was quite hot, in the low 90's.

Crater Lake review is next.