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Previa1994
伊利诺伊州芝加哥6,652 条分享
2022年6月 • 独自旅游
Long drive on unpaved road for a an easy hike. But the geology and scenery are unique. The trail is asphalt paved but narrow. Few people visit this place in The Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
撰写日期：2022年12月15日
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Shelly C
俄勒冈La Pine17 条分享
2020年6月 • 夫妻情侣
My husband is in a wheelchair and he was able to make the 1 mile paved loop around in his power wheelchair BUT a small caution to those that are not experienced with handling a power wheelchair as there are some very narrow spots and steep declines/inclines (depending on which direction you go from the parking lot). Overall it is a beautiful hike with lots of great information along the way!
撰写日期：2020年6月23日
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AnnElizabeth97123
堪萨斯威奇托1,083 条分享
2019年8月 • 家庭
Drive is about 9 miles on a gravel road, but worth it. An easy one mile loop hike on a paved trail. Lots of signs explaining the area. The lava cast trees are holes where the trees were. About 1/3 trail is probably doable with a wheelchair, but then it gets bumpy, narrow and moderately steep. A stroller is probably not advisable for the whole loop. Great views. Lots of ground squirrels and supposedly pika, but we didn’t see any pika.
撰写日期：2019年8月9日
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Anne T
2 条分享
2019年7月 • 家庭
Beautiful, a little challenge driving there but worth it. Awesome scenery contrasting flowers spread out through the lava. Nice paved trail easy to walk. Grandson really enjoyed it and was a learning experience.
撰写日期：2019年7月10日
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Calgary102 条分享
2019年6月 • 夫妻情侣
Long drive on a terrible gravel winding road. At the end you get rewarded with an uninspiring walk. The sites are technical in nature and the interpretative signs are lacking. Only do this you have done every other walk in the area
撰写日期：2019年6月8日
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Brian M
英国Montrose1,515 条分享
2019年5月 • 夫妻情侣
This is an excellent 1/2 mile trial through the lava covered forest area. It is possible to take buggies and wheelchairs most of the way but the last third may not be suitable. Along the trail there are many examples of tree mounds. This is where a tree had been surrounded by lava. The tree was destroyed but it's imprint remains. There are even imprints left when trees had been lying down on the ground when they where covered. This has left a tunnel, the length of the tree. Well worth a visit.
撰写日期：2019年5月27日
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MargaritaDoug
弗吉尼亚弗吉尼亚海滩1,419 条分享
2018年10月 • 夫妻情侣
Loved this short path through a very “alien” part of Oregon. The lava flow was incredible. Very much reminded us of our recent trip to Iceland.
撰写日期：2018年10月24日
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Kjay
俄勒冈克拉马斯福尔斯606 条分享
2018年10月 • 夫妻情侣
What would you expect to see at this remote mountaintop attraction known as the “Lava Cast Forest”? For me, it was a total surprise!
I had envisioned a jungle of “lava” trees towering skyward, standing like a magnificent assemblage of monumental soldiers – cast in stone.
Instead, a prostrate lava-rock landscape over 5 square miles sprawled before me, riddled with bizarre cylindrical hollows “drilled” into the ground, looking like cement-lined foxholes (= the tree casts, or “molds”).
Lanky armed tree ghosts also littered the area, seeming to be desperately clutching the earth with their fractured limbs. And “decapitated” trees with strangely twisted trunks reared up in contorted postures or lay coarsely splintered on the mangled rubble.
What an amazing site!
According to the Newberry National Volcanic Monument’s “Volcanic Vistas 2018” flyer, the Lava Cast Forest was “formed when a lava flow overtook an old-growth forest and cooled to form casts of the trees that once stood there.” Mostly we saw the remnant casts from just the base of the trees, which extended both above ground and several feet below-ground, and looked like mini sinkholes, but with a bottom.
Getting there took almost half an hour drive from the Highway 97 turnoff (Exit 153). It was slow going (20 miles per hour) past a dreary fire-scarred forest with unsightly slash heaps, stretching about nine miles on a washboard gravel forest road. But oh – what beauty began as we approached the mountain’s summit!
Bright yellow willow bushes blazed with golden light, and a grove of aspens burst in orange and red hues. At the top, there was plenty of parking in spacious lots, with two picnic tables near, and an outhouse at the start of the 1-mile-long loop trail.
And what a magical trail – beginning in a pretty fall-colored woodland, then opening onto the ancient landscape of the lava cast forest which was created over 7,000 years ago when scorching molten lava erupted from the Newberry Volcano (another area to visit to the south)!
Although all of the trail is paved, it is only wheelchair accessible part of the way, & then gets narrower & steeper. The spiraling path leads past quite a variety of eye-catching lava casts, with benches for resting & reflection, informative interpretative signs along the way, and scenic views of the hazy distant mountains.
As the trail narrows, with steeper pathways in a roller-coaster-like walkway, we spied scampering, cinnamon-colored, ground squirrels pausing to nibble mushrooms atop rocks, and viewed a lone hawk fleeing from a treetop. It takes about an hour leisurely stroll to hike the loop back to the parking lot.
This is a no fee area now, then fees start again in May - September. Be sure to bring warm clothes for walks at this near 5800-foot elevation where it can get really cold when the winds pick up. Also bring water and snacks if you want to spend more time here, or explore the adjacent trails.
Note that this volcanic attraction is off the beaten track, so you may find yourself on the “forest” trail with few others, especially mid-week, and off-season. For more details and weather/travel information, check the Deschutes National Forest website. For us, this is definitely a repeat destination, and worth the bumpy ride to the top!
I had envisioned a jungle of “lava” trees towering skyward, standing like a magnificent assemblage of monumental soldiers – cast in stone.
Instead, a prostrate lava-rock landscape over 5 square miles sprawled before me, riddled with bizarre cylindrical hollows “drilled” into the ground, looking like cement-lined foxholes (= the tree casts, or “molds”).
Lanky armed tree ghosts also littered the area, seeming to be desperately clutching the earth with their fractured limbs. And “decapitated” trees with strangely twisted trunks reared up in contorted postures or lay coarsely splintered on the mangled rubble.
What an amazing site!
According to the Newberry National Volcanic Monument’s “Volcanic Vistas 2018” flyer, the Lava Cast Forest was “formed when a lava flow overtook an old-growth forest and cooled to form casts of the trees that once stood there.” Mostly we saw the remnant casts from just the base of the trees, which extended both above ground and several feet below-ground, and looked like mini sinkholes, but with a bottom.
Getting there took almost half an hour drive from the Highway 97 turnoff (Exit 153). It was slow going (20 miles per hour) past a dreary fire-scarred forest with unsightly slash heaps, stretching about nine miles on a washboard gravel forest road. But oh – what beauty began as we approached the mountain’s summit!
Bright yellow willow bushes blazed with golden light, and a grove of aspens burst in orange and red hues. At the top, there was plenty of parking in spacious lots, with two picnic tables near, and an outhouse at the start of the 1-mile-long loop trail.
And what a magical trail – beginning in a pretty fall-colored woodland, then opening onto the ancient landscape of the lava cast forest which was created over 7,000 years ago when scorching molten lava erupted from the Newberry Volcano (another area to visit to the south)!
Although all of the trail is paved, it is only wheelchair accessible part of the way, & then gets narrower & steeper. The spiraling path leads past quite a variety of eye-catching lava casts, with benches for resting & reflection, informative interpretative signs along the way, and scenic views of the hazy distant mountains.
As the trail narrows, with steeper pathways in a roller-coaster-like walkway, we spied scampering, cinnamon-colored, ground squirrels pausing to nibble mushrooms atop rocks, and viewed a lone hawk fleeing from a treetop. It takes about an hour leisurely stroll to hike the loop back to the parking lot.
This is a no fee area now, then fees start again in May - September. Be sure to bring warm clothes for walks at this near 5800-foot elevation where it can get really cold when the winds pick up. Also bring water and snacks if you want to spend more time here, or explore the adjacent trails.
Note that this volcanic attraction is off the beaten track, so you may find yourself on the “forest” trail with few others, especially mid-week, and off-season. For more details and weather/travel information, check the Deschutes National Forest website. For us, this is definitely a repeat destination, and worth the bumpy ride to the top!
撰写日期：2018年10月6日
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Mary K
91 条分享
2018年9月
A fun unique family friendly loop hike. Only a mile and you are in another world. My three year olds had no problem doing the whole hike on their own. I went early in the morning to avoid the heat!
撰写日期：2018年9月21日
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Luther N
加拿大素里171 条分享
2017年8月 • 家庭
About 30 to 40 minutes drive to the south from the Lava Lands Visitor Centre - over half of which was gravel forest road. Once a ponderosa forest, now an unreal barren lava flow landscape. Molds of lava formed around incinerated tree trunks. Quiet and unbeaten. A short interpretive paved trail loops around the area.
撰写日期：2018年7月22日
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