2018 Summer Road Trip Part 3

This was an epic road trip - 4 weeks and 6600 miles (11,000 kilometers)! The last leg took me to my sister's home in Fresno, then on to visit my friends' home in Alameda, California, when I found out that my younger son, Natan, was visiting his girlfriend in Berkeley. So, breakfast with Natan and Mia, a visit with Roger and Tom in Alameda, then north. It took 3 days to get to Seattle from Fresno, with stops at the national parks at Mount Lassen and Crater Lake.

Natan and Mia

Mount Lassen National Park:

Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California was designated a national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. It has the largest “plug dome volcano” in the world and the southern-most volcano in the Cascade Range. Mount Lassen Park still has boiling mud holes and hot springs. 

Crater Lake National Park:

Crater Lake National Park in South Central Oregon was established in 1902. It is the caldera of the volcanic Mount Mazama, which exploded about 8,000 years ago. Crater Lake is 1,949 feet deep (594 meters), which makes it the deepest lake in the United States. The road which traverses the rim of the crate is 7,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level.

View to the north