The great escape - Crescent City, California - Oregon Coast road trip

We decided it was time for a mini - vacation. We only had from Saturday to Wednesday night to get away. Our goal - find a little sun and go to the coast.

We started Saturday, drove down I-5 to Woodland, Wa. We obviously didn't get very far the first day. The next day we drove to Grants Pass and took hwy 199 to Crescent City, California. Hwy 199 follows the Smith river. It is a very scenic route to get to the coast.

Waterfall along hwy 199

 It's been really wet this year and everywhere we went we heard how weary people are of the rain. When we got to Crescent City we found out that hwy 199 had been closed about a 1/2 hour after we got through it. A large tree had fallen across the road and completely blocked the highway. Whew were we lucky!

We found sun and warmth (at least to us) that evening.
(Click on any of the photos below to enlarge.)

climbing on a "scary" rock! ;-)

The next day we headed south and stopped at the Trees of Mystery, we had driven by many times on other trips, but had never stopped. We decided this would be a good time to be tourists. We enjoyed it much more than we had expected.

 They have a great "Tall tales" area of the short trail you can walk that is dedicated to Paul Bunyan. Wonderful.........



They have a Gondola that you can ride up and down, or you can just ride it up and then walk the "wilderness" trail down. The wilderness trail had a 45 degree down incline. They provided a rope hand rail for the steep sections.

They had a photo "op" area. So my husband stood by it so I could have a picture to remind me of his "Love"! So cute....

Time to head north,
we spent his birthday at the Dunes national recreation area and the Sea Lion caves. Here's one of his introspective moments of his special day.

The birthday man & his beast

"Us" enjoying? the rainy day at the beach

One of the things I enjoyed seeing was the Yurts at the Oregon State campgrounds.

Here's a peak at the inside

our beast enjoying some alone time

Elk herd just out of Astoria, Oregon

 All in All, it was a most excellent "escape"!