Part 3. The Painted Hills. The tour route from Shaniko on OR-218 heads eastward through Cross Hollows into a remoteness that truly makes you feel as if you have been transported to another time and place. Today’s journey takes us east to Service Creek on OR-218 and then south on the OR-207 spur to Mitchell […]
Part 2. A Living Ghost Town. There are more than 80 ghost towns sprinkled throughout Oregon. The first stop on Oregon’s Journey Through Time Byway is 58 miles southeast of Biggs in Wasco County at the ghost town of Shanico. Shaniko traces its beginnings to August Scherneckau, a Civil War veteran, who began operating a […]
Part 1. Oregon has 29 designated Scenic Byways/Tour Routes which highlight the varied landscapes of the state. These routes fall into one of four designations – All-American Roads, National Scenic Byways, State Scenic Byways, and Tour Routes. This fall I have been exploring the Journey Through Time Scenic Byway, one of the nine State Scenic […]
Welcome to my blog which has sprung from a series of daily Facebook posts I made to entertain my friends during the COVID pandemic entitled “The World Through My Camera”. These posts were composed of a photograph along with information about either the place where it was taken or the wildlife subject. I am an […]