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Date: 28 Mar 2005 18:16:51
From: longrider@spammsn.com
Subject: Trip to Crater Lake, OR / northern CA info sought
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I'm planning to go on a round-trip bicycle trip next
month from the Sacramento, CA area to Crater Lake National
Park in Oregon. Anybody have comments on what roads to
take or avoid? Thanks.
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Date: 02 Apr 2005 20:22:56
From:
Subject: Re: Trip to Crater Lake, OR / northern CA info sought
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Take all the interesting back roads! Oregon is a great ride.
Are you going to ride around the rim? About 35 miles and 3400 more feet
of climbing, takes another four to six hours so get an early start from
below. Look at the profile of the rim road so you know what to expect.
It's a long way to the top but if you know how to climb, it's just not
that big a deal, 5000 feet in 20-45 miles, depending on where you
start. The last 7 miles are the steepest.
You're planning this trip in May? The rim might be closed, the Rim
Village doesn't open till June so you won't have any facilities at the
top.
The problem you need to plan for is the weather, it changes by the hour
and I think they've recorded some of the yearly 44 FEET OF SNOW at
least once on every day of the year. Last September we started to climb
in spitting rain but in the 50s and got to the top in dense fog, sleet
and temps in the 30s. We didn't make it around the rim on Cycle Oregon,
too wet and cold.
You can find some books about the park at a library and visit the
park's Web site.
Mazama is a rekable and awesome geological feature. You've got to
see it.
david boise ID
>
>From Roseburg - route 138 east to the park's north entrance.
>From Bend - Route 97 south to route 138 west to the park's north
entrance.
>From the South:
>From Medford - Route 62 north and east to the park's west entrance.
>From Klamath Falls - Route 97 north to route 62 north and west to the
park's south entrance.
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The park is always open, but many of the roads and facilities are
closed during the winter.
Summer Hours --
Rim Village Visitor Center: Early June through late September, 9:30 AM
- 5:00 PM, daily.
Steel Visitor Center: Early April through early November, 9:00 AM -
5:00 PM, daily.
Winter Hours --
Steel Visitor Center: Early November through early April, 10:00 AM -
4:00 PM, daily
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Date: 02 Apr 2005 07:51:57
From: Freewheeling
Subject: Re: Trip to Crater Lake, OR / northern CA info sought
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Be careful as you go through Trail by car, on your way to the lake. It's a
notorious speed trap. My sister used to live there, and they got me a few
years ago. (Well, a lot of years ago, actually.)
<longrider@spammsn.com > wrote in message
news:42489063.6EBFFC4@spammsn.com...
> I'm planning to go on a round-trip bicycle trip next
> month from the Sacramento, CA area to Crater Lake National
> Park in Oregon. Anybody have comments on what roads to
> take or avoid? Thanks.
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Date: 29 Mar 2005 00:57:28
From: Lorenzo L. Love
Subject: Re: Trip to Crater Lake, OR / northern CA info sought
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longrider@spammsn.com wrote:
> I'm planning to go on a round-trip bicycle trip next
> month from the Sacramento, CA area to Crater Lake National
> Park in Oregon. Anybody have comments on what roads to
> take or avoid? Thanks.
For some useful and free maps, contact the Caltrans bike people at:
Bicycle Facilites Unit, MS1
CA State Dept Transportation
CalTrans
PO Box 942674
Sacramento, CA 94274-0001
and ask for the Bicycling Map for Caltrans District 2 and 3 ( and 1 and
4 if you want to swing out to the coast ).
Or you can call District 2 in Redding at 530-225-3426 and District 3 in
ysville at 530-714-4211. Ask for the Bicycle Coordinators.
Which route depend largely on how much time you have.
I live in Yreka, CA and you can email me for local info.
Lorenzo L. Love
http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove
"Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a
person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a
newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive there's something wrong with him."
Art Buchwald
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Date: 28 Mar 2005 15:58:04
From:
Subject: Re: Trip to Crater Lake, OR / northern CA info sought
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longrider@spammsn.com wrote:
> I'm planning to go on a round-trip bicycle trip next
> month from the Sacramento, CA area to Crater Lake National
> Park in Oregon. Anybody have comments on what roads to
> take or avoid? Thanks.
I can't help you to the Oregon border, but last year's Oregon Bike Ride
(http://www.oregonbicycleride.org/obr2004_gallery.html) and Cycle
Oregon (http://www.cycleoregon.com/co17.htm) both went to the rim of
Crater Lake. Oregon Bike Ride, in particular, approached from the
south, through Fort Klamath, along Highway 62. Very pretty. Either
organization may help finding good routes.
You're going next month? Check to make sure the roads are open- the
north entrance is typically closed by snow until June. The roads over
the Siskyous (southern Oregon) also get into the snow zone.
BTW: the tall goof in
http://www.oregonbicycleride.org/obr2004_photo_13.html
is me.
Jeff
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