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We stopped off at La Pine State Park to visit the biggest Ponderosa Pine in Oregon. Well… it was until it lost its top a number of years ago. It still has the largest circumference and is truly massive.
It’s right along the Deschutes River and is in a very beautiful setting.
This part of the river would be nice to float on.
We went over to Benham Falls to check out one of the namesake cascades on the Deschutes river. I would not want to go down this in a canoe!
These falls are incredibly loud to stand next to.
It’s well worth the walk along the old railroad bed to visit these falls.
We tried going up Newberry Crater Road (NF-21) to go over the crater’s rim and onward toward China Hat but the snow started getting deeper as we went uphill so we decided to turn around since we were alone and I don’t have a Pul Pal or similar recovery gear yet.
You wouldn’t think there would be so much snow in mid June but up toward the top (we didn’t get photos up there), we were pushing through a couple feet of snow.