Boat landing located here. By Way, one of the most beautiful loop drives in Oregon. This road leads into some of the most recent volcanic flows in the state, some as recent as 1,500 years old. Camp Yale, camping and RV spots in a natural setting is located here as well as the headquarters of McKenzie River Reflections Newspaper. This is the Lost Creek Trough area where waters disappear into lava beds and reappear further down the landscape.
Waterfalls dot the countryside with sparkling clear water falling hundreds of feet.
Be sure not to miss upper and lower Proxy Falls as well as those at Linton Lake. Always check with the Ranger Districts for seasonal opening and closing dates of this highway. Alder Springs Campground is located on this road. In early days it was sometimes called Ishom Corral. In the summer of 1898 Claude Branton and Courtland Green were helping a man named John Linn drive some stock from Sisters.