US NorthWest 2017 Travel (1) - Overview and Itinerary

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US NorthWest 2017 Travel (1) - Overview and Itinerary

Changde Wu 2017-09-03

My year 2017 travel visited the northwestern part of the US, including the states of Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Northern California and Nevada. This page is the overview and itinerary, and some representative photos. This series include the topics in detailed documentation:

Sketch map of Year 2017 Northwestern US travel route

Travel Itinerary

Date	Itinerary	Place of stay
6/24	Bear River NWR Arco ID Craters of the Moon NM	Twin Falls ID
6/25	Shoshone Falls Park, Twin Falls ID Hagerman Fossil Beds NM, ID Bruneau Dunes State Park, ID C. J. Strike Dam	Boise ID
6/26	Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey, Swans Falls ID Deer Flat NWR ID State Capital I84->OR Rt. 26 -> Bend Lake Gulch, Prairie City, John Day John Day Fossil Beds NM (main unit along) Rt. 19 Painted Hills Overlook unit of John Day Fossil Beds NM	Bend OR
6/27	Bend Area Tumalo Falls Pilot Butte Newbury volcanic NM (Visitor Center, Cave, East Lake)	Cascade Locks OR
6/28	Columbia River Valley Fruit Loop, Hood River (alos Rt 35 South - 281 North) Bonneville Dam Bradford Island Visitor Center Multnomah Falls and Upstream	Cascade Locks OR
6/29	Horsetail Falls Oneonta Tunnel Beacon Rock State Park, WA Bonneville Dam, WA side Multnomah Falls OR State Capitol, Salem Portland Japanese Garden	Woodland WA
6/30	Mt. St. Helens South (Rt 503) Cougar Ape Cave, Climbers Bivouac Trailhead Lava Canyon Trailhead Mt. St. Helens North (Rt 504) Mt St Helens Forest Learning Center Johnston Ridge Observatory	Mt. Rainier, WA
7/01	Mt. Rainier Paradise River Narada Falls Paradise Visitor Center Reflection Lakes, Louise Lake, Bench and Snow Lake Trail Box Canyon Cougar Falls Sunrise Point (Palisades Lakes Trail) Sunrise Visitor Center	Tacoma WA
7/02	Olympic NP Lake Cushman, Staircase Elwha river valley (along Olympic hot springs road) Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center	Sequim WA
7/03	Olympic NP Internal Lake Cushman, Staircase Sol Duc Falls Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center Olympic NP Coast Rialto Beach Ruby Beach Kalaloch Lodge at Olympic NP	Hoquiam WA
7/04	Washington and Oregon Coastal Willapa NWR, WA Cape Disappointment SP, WA (Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center) Astoria, OR; Lewis & Clark National Historical Park The Haystack Rocks (Cannon Beach) Lincoln City Newport OR	Newport OR
7/05	Oregon Coastal(Rt. 101 -> Rt. 199 ) Newport Lighthouse Thor’s Well Sea Lion Caves Heceta Head Lighthouse Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor	Grants Pass OR
7/06	Cascade-Siskiyou NM Hobart Bluff Little Hyatt Reservoir Klamath River Recreation Site Salt Creek Falls, Crescent, OR Lemolo Lake Stump Lake	Idleyld Park OR
7/07	Toketee Falls Clearwater Falls Diamond Lake Crater NP	Klamath Falls OR
7/08	Lower Klamath NWR, CA Tulelake NWF, CA Lava Beds NM, CA	Reno NV
7/09	NV State Capital, Carson City Basin and Range Provinces along Rt. 50 Lahontan State Recreation Area/li> Sand Mountain Recreation Area Cold Springs Station Austin - Stoke's Castle Eureka Ruth - Copper Mining	Ely NV
7/10	Great Basin NP Lehman Caves Wheeler Peak Lakes (Stella, Teresa) Sevier Lake, UT Lynndyl, UT	Salt Lake City UT
7/11	Antelope Island SP (include Fielding Garr Ranch) Butterfield Canyon Rd, Herriman, UT Salt Lake City	Airplane

* NP - National Park, NM - National Monument, NWR - National Wildlife Refuge,
SP - State Park

The Northwestern US is a vast area with dramatic terrain and landforms, from plains, to valleys, then to snow peaks, then to coast, from desert to rainforests, a lot lakes, waterfalls. There is a kingdom for wildlife, and an open laboratory for geology. We vosisted 7 national park or Monument that are for volcanoes or volcanic rocks on the way, listed in the following: