We continued our trip to the south by picking up our stuff at the Bend/Sunriver TT and checking out. Soon we were southbound on US-97 but just a few miles south of La Pine we turned onto OR-31 eastbound toward US-395. OR-31 has poor paving and is quite bumpy but the scenery is gorgeous. Near US-97, OR-31 passes through pine forest. By the time we made it to Fort Rock, junipers were the surrounding scenery. As we approached Paisley, the terrain changed to giant basalt and lava cliffs bordering sage brush high desert. After a couple hours on OR-31, we merged with US-395 southbound.
About 10 miles further south, we turned off 395 onto Lakeview-Klamath Falls Highway near Lakeview and soon pulled into the driveway of Junipers RV Resort. This park is in the middle of a 6,000 acre ranch and about a mile from the highway up a gravel road. We can stand outside our trailer and turn all the way around without seeing any buildings other than the structures serving the park. The terrain is distant mountains on the horizons with rolling sagebrush prairie in the foreground. We reserved a site without a sewer hookup but there is shade, a 50 amp electrical service and a good water connection. Even better, they have great wi-fi and I got to spend some time today stumbling around the internet. If the clear, windy weather we have today continues until tonight, the stars should be spectacular since there is no light sources nearby and distant Lakeview surely cannot create much light pollution since only about 2,000 folks live there. Lakeview has a strange name since there doesn’t seem to be any lake to view around town.
We shot some pix along OR-31 and you can see some of them if you click here