Hiking Southern Oregon A Guide to the Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures

by Bernstein, Art; Urness, Zach

• ISBN13: 9780762784813
• ISBN10: 0762784814
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-08-05
• Publisher: Falcon Guides

Summary

From the Idaho Line to the Pacific Coast, Hiking Southern Oregon describes 100 of the best hikes in the beautiful and surprisingly diverse bottom third of the state. Hikes are described for Steens Mountain, Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge, Crater Lake National Park; the Gearhart, Sky Lakes, Thielsen, Mountain Lakes, and Kalmiopsis Wilderness Areas; the North Umpqua, Rogue, Applegate, Illinois,  Chetco, and Smith Rivers; Cascade-Siskiyou and Oregon Caves National Monuments; and in California, the Red Buttes and Siskiyou Wilderness Areas and Redwood National and State Parks.

Author Biography

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.

 

Zach Urness is an award-winning outdoors columnist and photographer who’s been reporting on Oregon’s wild spaces for six years. He covers the environment and recreation at the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon, and previously worked in Southern Oregon for the Grants Pass Daily Courier. A hiker, biker, whitewater kayaker, fly-fisherman and climber, Urness spends almost every outside-the-office moment rambling the Beaver State’s forests, mountains and rivers.

Table of Contents

Southeast Oregon

Steens Mountains
1. Wildhorse Lake
2. Big Indian Gorge
3. Little Blitzen Gorge
4. Pike Creek Canyon

High Desert
5. Crack in the Ground

Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge
6. DeGarmo Canyon

Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
7. Gearhart Mountain
8. Blue Lake

Klamath Falls Area
9. Sun Pass Pinnacles

Northern Cascades
10. Mt. Thielsen
11. Mt. Bailey
12. Mt. Thielsen Creek Meadows

North Umpqua River
13. Wolf Creek Falls

14. Yellowjacket Loop
15. Fall Creek Falls

16. Twin Lakes

17. Pine Bench
18. Toketee Falls
19. Watson Falls
20. Dread and Terror / Umpqua Hot Springs
21. Lemolo Falls
22. Miller to Maidu Lake

Upper Rogue River
23. Upper Rogue Canyon/Rough Rider Falls
24. National Creek Falls
25. Natural Bridge/Farewell Bend
26. Takelma Gorge
27. Golden Stairs

Rogue Umpqua Divide Wilderness
28. Cliff Lake / Grasshopper Mountain
29. Fish Lake
30. Rattlesnake Mountain
31. Abbott Butte

Lost Creek Lake Area

32. Viewpoint Mike
33. Mill Creek Falls

Crater Lake National Park
34. Boundary Springs
35. Cleetwood Cove
36. Mt. Scott
37. Garfield Peak
38. Annie Creek Loop
39. Union Peak
40. Plaikni Falls

Sky Lakes Wilderness
41. Middle Fork Rogue
42. Seven Lakes Basin – West
43. Seven Lakes Basin – East
44. Devil’s Peak
45. Blue Canyon Basin
46. Badger Lake

47. Squaw Lake
48. Nanny Creek/Puck Lake
49. Lower Sky Lakes
50. Upper Sky Lakes
51. Mt. McLoughlin

Mountain Lakes Wilderness
52. Clover Creek
53. Varney Creek

Bear Creek Valley
54. Lower Table Rock
55. Upper Table Rock
56. Rogue River Greenway

Cascade-Siskiyous
57. Pilot Rock
58. Hobart Bluff/PCT
59. Grizzly Peak
60. Mt. Ashland Meadows
61. Sterling Mine Trail
62. Wagner Butte

Red Buttes Wilderness
63. Tanner Lakes
64. Frog Pond

65. Azalea Lake
66. Kangaroo Basin

Grants Pass/Rogue/Siskiyou Area
67. Taylor Creek
68. Briggs Creek
69. Kerby Peak
70. Dollar Mountain
71. Limpy Creek
72. Grayback Mountain
73. Rainie Falls

74. Rogue River Trail-Grave Creek to Foster Bar

Wild Rogue Wilderness Area
75. Rogue River Trail-Marial to Paradise Bar
76. Bear Camp Prairie

77. Mt. Bolivar
78. Hanging Rock

 

Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area (Illinois Valley)

79. Illinois River – East

80. Little Falls

81. Babyfoot Lake

82. Magic Canyon

83. Kalmiopsis Rim

 

Oregon Caves National Monument
84. Big Tree Loop/Bigelow Lakes

Kalmiopsis Wilderness area (Pacific Coast)
85. Vulcan Lake
86. Illinois River – West
87. Windy Valley

Coast Ranges and Coast
88. Loeb Park / Redwood Interpretative Loop
89. Coquille Falls
90. Humbug Mountain
91. Boardman Scenic Corridor - Indian Sands

92. Boardman Scenic Corridor - Cape Ferrelo

93. Oregon Redwoods

Siskiyou Wilderness
94. Black Butte
95. East Fork Illinois River
96. Raspberry Lake
97. Devil’s Punchbowl

Northern California Redwoods
98. Stout Grove
99. Boy Scout Tree Trail
100. Hatton Trail