Day 28 - (08/30) Diamond Lake, OR

Though the rushing waters were noisy outside, we could barely hear them inside the Airstream.  Maybe that's why we had a great night's sleep, started slowly and left late (10:15).  We're blessed with yet another sunny, beautiful day that only reached the mid-70s.

There's nothing quite like hitch-in up on a
sunny morning, by a flowing river, with a coffee

We're going to miss the river views

Our 207 mile trip took us from deep forest, to big city (Eugene), and back into deep forest.  We're camped 6 miles from the entrance to Crater Lake National Park.  The route: OR-128W to I-5 at Springfield, I-5S to OR-138E at Roseburg, OR-138E to OR-230W and the Diamond Lake Recreation Area.

We passed the Goodpasture Bridge on WA-128, near Vida.  Built in 1938, it's the 2nd longest (165 ft.) covered bridge in Oregon.

The scenery changed dramatically east of Roseburg.

We had a memorable lunch at The Original Munchies in Glide.  A few things you should know if you go there ... it was established in 1979, doesn't look like much from the outside, and our selections tasted great.  Also, they offer whole and half orders.  Dick found out why the hard way by ordering a whole "beaver burger".  Yikes!

We're at the Diamond Lake RV Park.  It's very nice, well run and deep in the woods (the antithesis of the KOA park in Missoula, MT).

Entrance to Diamond Lake RV Park

Diamond Lake is just a short walk away

Site W-38 is large and very clean

We explored the park facilities and grounds, went down by the lake, got huge servings of ice cream (it was called a 1 scoop cup, but was bigger than any 3 scoop serving we've seen) at a nearby camp store, watched a movie and went to bed.