Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-07-12
A WONDERFUL AUTO TRIP

Myrtle Point, Ore, July l, 1922.
The Coast Highway from SanFran-
cisco to Bandon, connecting with our
new Marshfeld- Roseburg highway Of
fers the most attractive route for mo-
tor travel from Portland to SanFran-
cisco. In fact it is doubtful if there
is to be found any highway to equal
its scenic beauty on this continent or
any other. My travels have taken me
into all corners of the United States
and parts of MiXicO, yet nowhere have
seen such a vast combination of for
est, ocean lagoon, river and mountain
as this route offers. To my mind it
will be the main artery from north to
south when its features become known
to the motoring public. And its nat
uray summer and winter advantage
will, if for no other reason, divert the
travel through Coos county. Winter
means snow blockade near Shasta
and summer the intense heat of the
Sacramento Valley TO be endured if
the Pacific highway over the Liskiyous
is Travelled, while the coast te,when
completed, will be free from snoiw as
only low altitude passes are used and
summer simply means a touch of cool
ocean breezes for several hundred
miles through green forests and fertile
river valleys. Let us briefly touch the
high spots from SanFranciseo to Coos
county, or Roseburg. Leaving the
SanFranciseo ferry at Sansalito, a run
is made through the hills of Marin
county via Santa Rosa, through Son
ONE county, a vineyard and odchard
country for $50 miles. Just north of
Willitts in Mendocina county, a wood
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the unfenced open. On through Cum
ings TO Garherville over the pass into
/ the Eel River valley, ribbon of sill
Yer far below, set in a broad sweep
of forest green, but as you reach the
valley unless YOU are without sign
of feeling, you stop and marvel at the
! giant Redwood, the worlds oldest liy-
/ ing things, as they stand in cathedral
| like groves, through which you can
I drive in twilight, the sunlight merely
1 filtering through here and there on a
brussels carpet of redwood needles.
Spend a night if you are prepared
TO camp. There are fifty miles of Red
wood bordered highway along Eel Riy-
err to select from. CONSUMING north
into Eureka, Humbold's wide awake
county seat, then foar Crescent City
anu tlEi NOItt NhilG tllC AstA-
woods are not left behind for they are
with you to the Oregon line. You now
pass the lagoon country. Between the
highway and the ocean are miles and
miles of fresh water lakes surrounded
by wooded hills, while the Landslide
hills are a riot of laurels and other
blossoms until past midsummer. This
lagoon resembles the inside passage
to Alaska. Through Dirk to Regina
at the mouth of Clamath River is an
other forest drive. At Regina { h e
sportsman can realize his widest hope
while the salmon are running. So on
to Crescent City, north through the
Smith River country you pass into
Oregon near Brookings and set your
course for Gold Beach in Curry coun-
ty at the mouth of Rogne River. 1t
is here that you rise TO the greatest
panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean,
being most Of the time in open parks
or prairies as they are known in Coos
county. Ferrying the Rogne River, q
run is made to Port oxford near Cape
Blanco; the most westerly point in the
United States.
This district is largely a game sane
tuary and deer, wild pigeons and other
Leaving Port Oxford the highway is
nearly level into Bandon at the mouth
of the Cogville river. II is not all
over yet The trip on through Cog
vile and Myrtle Point to the beautiful
Middle Fork of the Cogville river and
through the lower divide into Camas
valley is reached via bridge, then drop
down into the Ur1pgna valley joining
the Pacific highway at billiard, only
seventy-five miles from the Pacific and
Bandon.
II takes little imagination to yisu-
alize the scene near at hand. Carsby
the hundreds will daily pass through
our doorway TO the wonders held lock-
ed from the casual tourists by the
absence of good roads. Yet il has not
been impossible, for the writer has
made the trip for three successive
years. The caravan leaves a trail Of
gold. Be prepared to sincerely well
come the stranger.
AL. BEZOSKY,
Coos County. Myrtle Point, Ore.