Beautiful Lakes of Southern Oregon
Leaving Bend behind (at least for a few weeks) we headed to our next camping spot, just ½ hour away in La Pine, Oregon. We purposely wanted to be fairly close to civilization in case we missed something during our shakedown week. As it turned out, we needed to head back to Bend once to get a few essentials and to stock up on food for our week in Diamond Lake. Our campsite in La Pine was nothing to write home about--its best feature was the view of the meadow out the back. But the La Pine area presented a couple of good exploration opportunities! Our back window view First we set out on our bikes to explore LaPine State Park. The park is perched on the Deschutes River and has m any miles of little-used trails. We particularly like one trail that followed the river for quite a ways and ended up in the state park campground, which was pretty nice. There were many overlooks with spectacular...
