Camping at Lake Owyhee Oregon State Park in the high desert of eastern Oregon
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Camping at the McCormack Campground in the Lake Owyhee Oregon State Park. Also exploring the lake and the area around the lake by bicycle and inflatable kayak.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing your travels.
Thanks for watching and the nice comment!
Never been to this area. Another great spot you have found. Looks like a good spring campout. Ride my bike, kayak, and do some hiking before the summer heat. Thanks, you are giving me new options to go camp in my Sprinter. Loved the night-time time lapse.
Sounds great! Thanks for the nice feedback.
Check out Leslie gulch too! It’s amazing!
Wow, great enjoyable video. The area is now on my list. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the nice comment.
This is great, I was at the lake last Monday and Tuesday, from the Leslie gulch side. Epic. Want to go back and get on the water!!
Also, voice is very soothing, and your videography is beautiful!
Thanks for the really nice comment. Great place to get out on the water!
I live on the lower Owyhee river and grew up on the lake. Just for info the road to the dam and the tunnel is the old railroad bed used during the construction of the dam.
I really enjoyed your video it's my home.
Thanks for the info and the nice comment!
Beautiful place. Thank you for the video very much!
Thanks Slim. Glad you enjoyed it
Another enjoyable video. Thanks for sharing and I hope you will keep the content coming!
Thanks. More to come!
Very nice video of a truly magical place, that brought back fond memories of our 2-month stay as camp hosts a few years ago.
Thanks, I agree there is some magic in the Owyhee canyon.
Another lovely video. I particularly like your clear directions as well as your calm voice. I too have a Sea Eagle inflatable kayak I hope you get as much pleasure out of yours as I do mine.
Oh thank you! Yes, I think an inflatable kayak can provide access to interesting places and sights that would otherwise be missed. And it can simply be fun to be out on the water.
Pleasant video-thanks for not mentioning the hot springs, best kept somewhat of a secret.
Love your videos....thanks!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching.
awesome video. informative, great visuals, and soothing narration. Keep it up! #MOREOREGONPLEASE
Thanks, much appreciated.
Enjoyed the video and the short time we had to chat at the campground.
Thanks for the nice comment. It was great to meet someone who had seen some of my videos.
Another very interesting video! Never been to that lake, but was in that area more than once. If you get back there again, there's a nice little BLM campground at Antelope Reservoir. It's about twenty-eight miles almost due south of the south tip of the lake and just south of US95. Safe travels!
Ralph, thanks for the nice comment and the suggestion about Antelope Reservoir.
Leslie Gulch, Leslie Gulch, Leslie Gulch, a crown jewel of Oregon
Such a fun area, I just got back from visiting. The river is down a lot
Yes, a great area. I suppose that once water stops flowing out through the glory hole, the river drops a lot.
Nice camera work. Well done.
Thank you very much!
So different from Coastal Oregon! Thank you.
My pleasure, thanks for watching.
Beautiful area and beautiful video. I spent a week there last year camping and fishing. Isn't the dam at the north end of the lake?
I enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Thanks. And yes, the dam is at the north end of the lake.
LOCALS ONLY!
What iis the height of the tunnel? Can a normal travel trailer go through it? Really love your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for positive view. There is plenty of height for a travel trailer in the tunnel. People bring big Class A RVs to the campground, but I would think it might be a tight fit for the really big RVs if they met someone on the more narrow parts of the road.
Thanks for the great video. What time of the year were you there?
Thanks for the positive feedback. I was there 2 weeks ago. Time is year for visiting is an important factor. This area gets quite hot during the summer.
Nice video. Can a class c motorhome make it safely on the roads you showed?
Thanks for the positive feedback. The road is narrow and in some sections there is a steep drop off on one side. That said, later in my visit I saw a couple of trailers come into the park. The McCormack campground hosts apparently drove a big class A RV into the park. So it can be done. I am rather cautious and I would probably be nervous driving a long and wide vehicle into the park.
I don't see those two campgrounds on Google Maps? A search shows Spring Creek and McCormick at other locations in eastern Oregon.
First I apologize about my error in saying "Spring Creek Campground". The two campgrounds at Lake Owyhee State Park are "Indian Creek Campground" and "McCormack Campground". Both "Indian Creek" and "McCormack" campgrounds are indeed located in Lake Owyhee State Park. For some reason Google maps doesn't do well if you just search for Lake Owyhee State Park and then zoom in on the park to find the campgrounds. Fortunately it does fine at finding the park. If you search for "Indian Creek Campground Lake Owyhee state park" in google maps it will find the correct campground. Oregon State Parks has a brochure for Lake Owyhee State Park which shows the location of both campgrounds. You can find the brochure on the Oregon State Parks website.
Are drones typically allowed in Oregon State Parks?
It varies. Some of the state parks at the coast prohibit drones to protect nesting birds. At Smith Rock State Park in central Oregon, drones are prohibited part of the year to protect raptor nesting. There can be other reasons like proximity to an airport, for instance at South Beach State Park. It is always important to check.
Watch out for the lake monster
Yes, the rock formations can be scary.
It has been reported that and a siting of a lake monster I’ve read it on the sign at the lake
STAY OUT!
I can do without the added water lapping on the shoreline noise.
No need for it at all, and you can do better
I’m surprised you weren’t offended by the Glory Hole?
Don't watch!!! There's more of us who like the lapping water sound than grumpy peeps like you...
Totally agree...you should replace it with elevator Musak and blathering about the history and geology and biology of this area
@@festeCanuck even better still , there's lots of really horrendous generic , digital ( A.I.?) "music" that hurts one's ears , but is free , so lots of toobers use it............... good gawd , imagine complaining about the sound of water in an outdoor film