O'Brien, OR

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Today we moved from Mt. Shasta City, CA to O'Brien, OR.  We drove I-5 north to Grant Pass, OR then took US 199 south to O'Brien, OR.  It was up and down most all the way.  At the border of CA-OR we went up to 4465 ft elevation; then down to 2500 ft elevation and back up to 4310 ft elevation at Ashland. By the time we got to Grants Pass we were down to 960 ft elevation.  We are at O'Brien now with an elevation of 1417 ft elevation.  It was a beautiful drive.

This is shortly after we left Mt. Shasta City headed north on I-5.  Beautiful valley!

This is our first big downhill almost to the CA-OR border.  It was a 6% grade for 5 miles.

This is more of the downhill.

Then we crossed into Oregon.

Here we are coming down from 4310 ft elevation into Ashland.  This was 6% grade for 6 miles this time.

Enough of the downhills.  We have arrived in O'Brien.  The main part of town is at one intersection.  The campground is just a few 100 feet off this intersection.

 We are staying at Lone Mountain RV Resort for the next 4 nights.  It is a smaller park but very nice.  We have a pull thru with full hook ups.  Escapees get a 15% discount.

This is our parking site.  The car is temporarily parked in the site next to us.

We walked to "The" intersection of town this evening.

This old restored police car was parked just outside the little food mart which also sold tacos.

This wooden Indian was on the porch of this little food mart.

This wooden old prospector or lumberjack (not sure what it was to represent) was standing next to the wooden Indian.

This beautiful flowering bush was not far from the building.

There were also several rose bushes.  This is one of the roses.

We found this giant gnome on the porch of a caboose at the back side of the food mart parking lot.  The Caboose used to be an ice cream parlor, but closed years ago.  I looked in the windows and it was full of junk.

Beautiful afternoon.  We plan to go see the Redwoods tomorrow.