Side Note: In the photo above we are driving behind a truck from Wisconsin. But the problem is that you are so terrified you can’t take your eyes of the road for a split second to enjoy the view.Īlong the Ridge – This Photo Doesn’t Do Justice to the Narrowness of the Road, or the Cliff Really the scenery is quite beautiful as you are looking out over miles and miles of forest, it reminded me of some of the hikes that Jon and I have gone on around home. Did I mention the cliff and the lack of guard rails? You are on a tiny one lane road, driving along the edge of a ridge, with nothing but a drop off the side of the road. Every curve is sheer terror, because you don’t know if another car is coming. There are logging spurs turning off every so often, and still you have the blind curves. There were hairpin, blind curves, no guard rails and a sheer cliff drop off. Once you get up to the top of the mountain, the road has gradually narrowed down to one lane, with turnouts. At first, the road isn’t very narrow and there are other cars and you feel ok about it. Basically we were driving straight up a mountain – well really anything but straight. So, up we go – and it was paved – and we continued up and up and up. There are mile posts too – although that isn’t all that helpful when you don’t know which milepost will mark the end of this hell on earth, but we didn’t know that yet… I know nothing about how the BLM maintains its roads… The one thing that this road had going for it is that there are signs along the side quite frequently marking the Coastal Route. And then part of it is a Bureau of Land Management road. Which doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing, considering that the roads in the National Forests are Forest Service roads. At some point you hit the end of the county road, and end up on the National Forest Service road. We drove through some scenic countryside and then we got to the road… Bear Camp Road – aka the Coastal Route. So off we went on our way to Gold Beach – we stopped for gas, got some coffee for Jon and set out. She said, “It’s a small road, but it’s not a bad road. But given that the GPS had gotten us lost the day before, I double checked the directions the GPS gave us with Expedia directions. Even some of the highways are really more like country roads. I knew the road that went directly from Medford to Gold Beach was a smaller road – not a highway. But first we had to get there from Medford. This is further down the Oregon Coast than Jon or I had ever been, so it was a chance to see something new. The third full day of our short vacation, we made a reservation for a hotel on the beach in Gold Beach, Oregon.
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