Buckey at Brevada
We’ll start with the last one I took. I ostensibly came to Klamath Falls for that Smoothie Bowl from Brevada tomorrow morning, but I also wanted my route to take me through Crater Lake National Park so I could take a picture of their post office. That is the next one in reverse order.
Crater Lake – I was lucky to get this close to the building that houses the park’s post office. The National Park was hopping on a summer Sunday. (8/24/25)
While I was in the park, I stopped at a couple of overlooks and a couple of visitor centers. I bought a couple of postcards and a sticker for Buckey’s trunk lid. At my last stop the morning mist and smoke that had obscured the lake was starting to burn off, but for the first couple of photos you had to imagine that deep blue the lake is famous for.
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- The Lake Is Starting To Look Good
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- Starting To See Some Blue
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- A Misty Wizard Island
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- Imagine Under That Is The Bluest Lake
Before I left to head south, I captured the last post office in Eugene. Then I had breakfast right next door to the last of the three post offices left hanging out there on OR-126 on a ninety-mile out and back.
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- Blue River – Note the naked trees on the peak behind the post office, this whole section of OR-126 along the McKenzie River looks like that. Must have been one big raging fire. (8/24/25)
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- Vida – Vida was originally named “Gate Creek”, but this caused confusion with a community of “Gates Creek” in nearby Washington County, so the name of the postmaster’s daughter was selected instead. (8/24/25)
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- Walterville – And people complain about nepotism in Hollywood, the Walterville post office was established in 1875 and named by the first postmaster, George Millican, for his son Walter. (8/24/25)
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- Eugene – Somehow I missed this Eugene post office back in February. (8/24/25)
Sdrawkcab Og Ew is We Go Backwards backwards.