HAGER TRAIL LbNA #47586
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Add Location| Owner: | Calli-K  |
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| Plant date: | May 22, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Silver Lake |
| County: | Lake |
| State: | Oregon |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Camp-N-Stamp |
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| Last found: | Aug 15, 2015 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | May 22, 2009 |
Things to do in this area:
Camp at East Bay Campground – paved road all the way (East Bay Road, which turns into County Road 28) – nice lake with 10 mph limit on boats. Can also camp on the other side if you take a different route to Thompson Reservoir Campground. Nice day area at this reservoir/lake. We just squat-camped in the forest off to the right just past the Fremont Forest entrance sign, had a nice picnic table and giant fire ring and had the whole campground to ourselves on Memorial Day weekend.
Visit Fort Rock and find the two letterboxes that were there when I visited May 22, 2009. Worth the drive, this is an awesome structure.
Visit Crack-In-The-Ground and hike down in there where it’s very cool – also worth the drive on the dusty curvy road that takes you there.
Visit The Lost Forest – might be worth the drive, but when I went there were a gazillion people camped with their off-road vehicles – it was noisy and dusty, and I wasn’t impressed one bit. Maybe another time of year it might be more interesting.
Visit town of Christmas Valley and make believe Santa is coming to town.
Anything else you find googling Fremont National Forest – it’s beautiful there, and the Great Sandy Desert is a nice way to exercise your imagination as to what the area must have looked like when it was covered in a giant lake.
Driving directions: From Lapine go south a ways and take exit for highway 31. Travel to Silver Lake but just before you reach Silver Lake take East Bay Road south (paved) about 6 miles. At the 6-mile point the road turns into Forest Road 28. A little over 3.5 miles more you will see a small turn-out on the left for the Hager Trail. Park there.
CLUES: Take the Hager Trail up less than a quarter mile and look for the big pile of boulders on the right. Go off trail around behind them and look for the figures in perpetual postures of obeisance. Step under these two figures, turn to your left, step between them towards the trail a couple of steps until your way is blocked by a juniper. Look to the left at your feet for the black shelf, under which is the Hager Trail Letterbox.
I’m recovering from a foot surgery so couldn’t go further, but I believe the trail goes for miles and miles – didn’t bother to read up on it. A beautiful pine forest. There is a lookout tower at the top, not sure if the trail goes to it or not. I used up most the distance I can walk at this point hiking into the middle of Fort Rock.
Camp at East Bay Campground – paved road all the way (East Bay Road, which turns into County Road 28) – nice lake with 10 mph limit on boats. Can also camp on the other side if you take a different route to Thompson Reservoir Campground. Nice day area at this reservoir/lake. We just squat-camped in the forest off to the right just past the Fremont Forest entrance sign, had a nice picnic table and giant fire ring and had the whole campground to ourselves on Memorial Day weekend.
Visit Fort Rock and find the two letterboxes that were there when I visited May 22, 2009. Worth the drive, this is an awesome structure.
Visit Crack-In-The-Ground and hike down in there where it’s very cool – also worth the drive on the dusty curvy road that takes you there.
Visit The Lost Forest – might be worth the drive, but when I went there were a gazillion people camped with their off-road vehicles – it was noisy and dusty, and I wasn’t impressed one bit. Maybe another time of year it might be more interesting.
Visit town of Christmas Valley and make believe Santa is coming to town.
Anything else you find googling Fremont National Forest – it’s beautiful there, and the Great Sandy Desert is a nice way to exercise your imagination as to what the area must have looked like when it was covered in a giant lake.
Driving directions: From Lapine go south a ways and take exit for highway 31. Travel to Silver Lake but just before you reach Silver Lake take East Bay Road south (paved) about 6 miles. At the 6-mile point the road turns into Forest Road 28. A little over 3.5 miles more you will see a small turn-out on the left for the Hager Trail. Park there.
CLUES: Take the Hager Trail up less than a quarter mile and look for the big pile of boulders on the right. Go off trail around behind them and look for the figures in perpetual postures of obeisance. Step under these two figures, turn to your left, step between them towards the trail a couple of steps until your way is blocked by a juniper. Look to the left at your feet for the black shelf, under which is the Hager Trail Letterbox.
I’m recovering from a foot surgery so couldn’t go further, but I believe the trail goes for miles and miles – didn’t bother to read up on it. A beautiful pine forest. There is a lookout tower at the top, not sure if the trail goes to it or not. I used up most the distance I can walk at this point hiking into the middle of Fort Rock.