Hiking Southern Oregon

by Art Bernstein, Victor Harris

Overview

Fully updated and revised, with over 90 hikes in the Southern Cascades and Siskiyou Mountain Range, this book is the most comprehensive guide available for Southern Oregon's diverse hiking opportunities. Featuring all of the trails in Crater Lake National Park, readers can traverse all routes through this iconic park. Also explore the Mount Thielsen, Sky Lakes, Mountain Lakes, Red Buttes, and Wild Rogue Wilderness Areas, as well as much more. Complete with maps, elevation profiles, and clear, informative hike narratives, this book is bound to be the standard against which all other guides for the area are judged.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493043248
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2022
Series:	State Hiking Guides Series
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Art Bernstein has written 16 other nature and hiking books. His most recent Falcon Guides was Best Easy Day Hikes - Eugene (with his wife, Lynn Bernstein) and Weird Hikes – Second Edition. An avid hiker and naturalist, with an M.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan, Art grew up in Detroit but has lived in Grants Pass, Oregon, since 1970.

Vic Harris is a graduate of Ohio State University with a major in Natural resources. He worked for many years as a Forester and later as Director of the Josephine County (Oregon) Forestry Department. A hiker and avid mountain marathon runner, Vic spends almost every outside-the-office moment exploring Oregon’s forests, mountains, and rivers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

How to Use this Guide 7

Backcountry Regulations 13

Zero Impact 14

All About Hiking: Safety, Hazards, and Fire 15

Trail Finder 15

Map Legend 23

Southeast Oregon

Steens Mountain Area 24

1 Wildhorse Lake 24

2 Big Indian Gorge 27

3 Little Blitzen Gorge 30

4 Pike Creek Canyon 32

High Desert 35

5 Crack in the Ground 35

Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge 38

6 DeGarmo Canyon 38

Gearhart Mountain Wilderness 41

7 Gearhart Mountain 41

8 Blue Lake 44

Klamath Falls Area 46

9 Crater Lake Pinnacles 46

Cascades-North of Crater Lake 48

10 Mount Thielsen 48

11 Mount Bailey 51

12 Thielsen Creek Meadows 54

North Umpqua River 58

13 Wolf Creek Falls 58

14 Yellowjacket Loop 61

15 Fall Creek Falls 66

16 Twin Lakes 69

17 Pine Bench 71

18 Toketee Falls 74

19 Watson Falls 76

20 Dread and Terror / Umpqua Ho Springs 79

21 Lemolo Falls 82

22 Miller to Maidu Lake 85

Upper Rogue River 88

23 Upper Rogue Canyon / Unnamed Falls 88

24 National Creek Falls 91

25 Natural Bridge / Farewell Bend 93

26 Takelma Gorge 96

27 Golden Stairs 99

Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness 102

28 Cliff Lake / Grasshopper Mountain 102

29 Fish Lake 105

30 Abbot Butte 108

Lost Creek Lake Area 112

31 Viewpoint Mike 112

32 Mill Creek Falls 115

Crater Lake National Park 117

33 Boundary Springs 117

34 Cleetwood Cove 120

35 Mount Scott 122

36 Garfield Peak 125

37 Annie Creek Loop 128

38 Union Peak 131

39 Plaikni Falls 134

Sky Lakes Wilderness 136

40 Middle Fork Rogue River 136

41 Seven Lakes Basin-West 139

42 Seven Lakes Basin-East 143

43 Devil's Peak 147

44 Blue Canyon Basin 151

45 Badger Lake 155

46 Squaw Lake 158

47 Nannie Creek / Puck Lake 161

48 Lower Sky Lakes 164

49 Upper Sky Lakes 168

50 Mount McLoughlin 171

Mountain Lakes Wilderness 174

51 Clover Creek 174

52 Varney Creek 177

Bear Creek Valley 181

53 Lower Table Rock 181

54 Upper Table Rock 184

55 Rogue River Greenway 187

Cascade-Siskiyous 190

56 Pilot Rock 190

57 Hobart Bluff / Pacific Crest Trail 193

58 Grizzly Peak 197

59 Mount Ashland Meadows / Pacific Crest Trail 200

60 Tunnel Ridge / Sterling Mine Trail 203

61 Wagner Butte 206

Red Buttes Wilderness 209

62 Tanner Lakes 209

63 Frog Pond 212

64 Azalea Lake 215

65 Red Buttes / Pacific Crest Trail 219

Grants Pass / Rogue / Siskiyou Area 223

66 Taylor Creek 223

67 Briggs Creek 227

68 Kerby Peak 231

69 Dollar Mountain 234

70 Limply Creek Botanical Loop 237

71 Grayback Mountain 239

72 Rainie Falls 242

73 Rogue River Trail-Grave Creek to Marial 247

Wild Rogue Wilderness Area 251

74 Rogue River Trail-Marial to Paradise Bar Lodge 251

75 Bear Camp Prairie 255

76 Mount Bolivar 258

77 Hanging Rock Trail 261

Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area (Illinois Valley) 265

78 Illinois River-East 265

79 Little Falls Loop 269

80 Babyfoot Lake 272

81 Magic Canyon 275

82 Eagle Mountain 278

Oregon Caves National Monument 281

83 Big Tree Loop 281

Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area (Pacific Coast) 284

84 Vulcan Lake 284

85 Illinois River-West 287

86 Windy Valley 290

Coast Ranges and Coast 293

87 Loeb State Park / Redwood Nature Loop 293

88 Coquille Falls 295

89 Humbug Mountasin 298

90 Boardman Scenic Corridor-Indian Sands 301

91 Boardman Scenic Corridor-Cape Ferrelo 304

92 Oregon Redwoods 307

Siskiyou Wilderness 309

93 Black Butte 309

94 East Fork Illinois River 312

95 Raspberry Lake 316

96 Devil's Punchbowl 320

Northern California Redwoods 323

97 Stout Grove 323

98 Boy Scout Tree Trail 326

99 Hatton Trail 328

Appendix A Hiker's Checklist 331

Appendix B References 334

Appendix C For More Information 335

Hike Index 337

About the Authors 339