Oregon family weekend vacation number 2, rafting, camping, hiking and hotsprings

Southern Oregon family weekend vacation number 2 is.......

This a great adventure weekend for any active family looking to get out and work their muscles a little.
Start the Oregon family adventure weekend in Roseburg when you meet your guides for the day of rafting on the North Umpqua River. The North Umpqua is one of Oregon's best day long rafting trips with more rapids per mile than you can count, crystal clear water, and spectacular evergreen sceneryy. The North Umpqua is one of my favorites for paddle rafting (especially for families) or running in the inflatable kayaks (slightly more adventurous). The numerous class III rapids just keep the excitement coming. The day of rafting on the North Umpqua River includes lunch along the way and 6-7 hours of white water you will remember forever. If you have time, choose to do the 2 day rafting trip and have a night at the famous Steamboat Inn before another great day on a different section of the river.

After a day or two running the waves of the Umpqua you can head towards the mountains to catch some vistas and switch from working the arms to trying out your legs. On your way up into the hills stop and relax your tired muscles in some hot springs. However, if you are traveling with the family go with caution as in most hot springs people often like to get back to nature and soak in the nude. Continuing on your way up into the hills stop and take the 0.4 mile hike to Toketee falls before driving up to Diamond Lake. As you drive you will pass multiple areas to camp, but for the family trip a nice campground right on the lake is Broken Arrow.
After the night roasting marsh mellows with the family and laughing about the days rafting adventure wake up and head to Crate Lake National Park to see one of the worlds most spectacular lakes. Crater Lake National Park has something for everyone with great hiking, scenery, a historic lodge, and everything else you would expect of a national park.

Keep on the lookout for more great family vacation ideas in southern Oregon.

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Monday morning, perfect time for great Rogue River news

Most everyone knows the feeling of sitting down at your computer on a Monday morning. Hit the on button and wonder and wait what e-mails sitting sit there needing to expeditious response. Granted with modern phones it's not such a mystery what e-mails are waiting, but you get the idea. This was a great Monday with an e-mail highlight! It is always fun to read feedback from trips and hear comments about how great the trip was or how, "awesome" the guides were. However, by the time November rolls around most people have already sent in their feedback and people are looking towards next season. Well today we had a surprise e-mail that proved to be blog worthy. The title of the e-mail was G'day

"Hi,

It’s Troy and Michelle from Australia ! We came to you on a sunny day in September and we had a fantastic and memorable time, especially with our well trained and anything-but-lazy guide, Aaron. Please see attached photos we thought you might like to keep for yourself. Aaron, we tried to include photos of you working as well as the ones where you were relaxing so you wouldn’t get a hard time from the Boss.

We loved Aaron’s enthusiasm and love of life and all things natural. It was a real pleasure for us to spend the time we had in a beautiful part of Southern Oregon with a down-to-earth and relaxed guide as Aaron.

Having crapped on enough about how great Aaron was, we’d like to say a thank you to the rest of the staff for their warm welcome (even at the crack of dawn on a cold morning), positive attitudes and great advice. We’ll never forget the great experience we’ve had on the Mighty Rogue River and we have you guys to thank for that, so thank you.


Kind regards

Troy Lea & Michelle"

While all of the photos seemed to be Aaron relaxing, we will let it slide and assume he worked at some point during the day. Here is the trip they are talking about
Thanks to everyone this year who sent in great feedback, we always love hearing how trips went.