A Drive Along The Crooked River Scenic Highway - Part 2

avatar
(Edited)

Resuming The Trek

Hello again everyone and welcome to part 2 of my trip through the canyon along the Crooked River Scenic Highway. Part 1 covered the first half of the drive out of Prineville Oregon. Part 2 will conclude as we climb out of the canyon at Bowman Dam that blocks the flow of the river to create Prineville Reservoir. With one last shot of the road home after we leave the canyon.

Click images for larger view
crcd1.jpg

As I said in the first post I love rock formations. Especially desert type ones. But I also try to keep an eye open for the other interests and beauty that might be nearby.

crcd2.jpg
This little guy was sunning himself on the fence post. I tried to switch to my macro lens to get a better shot but he was gone before I could switch lenses. At least I ended up with this heavily cropped wide angle shot.

crcd3.jpg

crcd4.jpg

crcd5.jpg
A few more views before getting back on the road.

Views At Big Bend

A few views of an area of the drive called Big Bend where the river makes a 180 degree turn. I guess that is one of the reasons why they call it the Crooked River. 😉

crcd6.jpg

crcd7.jpg

crcd8.jpg
A panorama from the side of the road about half-way through the bend. Chimney rock can be seen in the distance.

crcd9.jpg
There is a hike up tho Chimney Rock that I had hoped to do earlier this spring. Unfortunately with everything being closed down and the weather now getting warmer, I will probably have to wait for fall to do this hike.

crcd10.jpg
Some of the road side beauty at this little stop.

crcd11.jpg

crcd12.jpg
A couple looks back as we leave the Big Bend area.

The Last Stretch To The Dam

Here is a shot looking up river as we head toward the dam.

crcd13.jpg

A few last views of the rocks and cliffs before we leave the canyon.

crcd14.jpg

crcd15.jpg

crcd16.jpg

crcd17.jpg

crcd18.jpg

Bowman Dam

crcd19.jpg

crcd20.jpg
A couple shots of the dam we will cross to end our drive.

crcd21.jpg
Out of the canyon and heading for home we glimpse the Cascade Mountain Range. Broken top on the left followed by South, Middle and North Sister. Together the Three Sisters.

Please feel free to comment or ask any questions about this post.

Photos taken by me, @oldmans, with a Nikon D3300 and some Lightroom post processing.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your day!



0
0
0.000
17 comments
avatar

This post was chosen to be voted by THEUNION. theunion.png

0
0
0.000
avatar

Congratulations, your post has been added to Pinmapple! 🎉🥳🍍

Did you know every user has their own profile map?
And so does every post as well!

Want to have your post on the map too?

  • Go to Pinmapple
  • Click the get code button
  • Click on the map where your post should be (zoom in if needed)
  • Copy and paste the generated code in your post (Hive only)
  • Congrats, your post is now on the map!

0
0
0.000
avatar

Beautiful photos, especially that one shot looking up river as you headed towards the dam! That looks like a picture-postcard! Superb photo! 💚

0
0
0.000
avatar

Thank you very much! I really liked the greenish color in the river. I saw it a couple other places but didn't really have the time this trip to investigate. Oh well, a good excuse to make a return trip. 😀

0
0
0.000
avatar

Love the last shot of the mountain range. They were all great shots, and looked like it was a nice drive. Looks like at least one die-hard fisherman down in the river on that one shot.

0
0
0.000
avatar

Thank you, we are lucky to have quite a few snow capped peaks around to photograph.

It was a wonderful drive! There were several fly fisherman out that day. I think fishing just opened up again a week or so ago so they were probably happy to be out again.

Thanks for stopping by. 😀

0
0
0.000
avatar

Astonishing pictures once again especially the panorama view of the road.

0
0
0.000
avatar

Thank you @razeiv!

I was hoping to get the full double yellow line in the shot but when I went to stitch them together in Lightroom I was a little short. Should have got less sky or took 4 images. 😀

0
0
0.000
avatar

Hiya, @lizanomadsoul here, just swinging by to let you know that this post made it into our Honorable Mentions in Daily Travel Digest #866.

Your post has been manually curated by the @pinmapple team. If you like what we're doing, please drop by to check out all the rest of today's great posts and consider supporting other authors like yourself and us so we can keep the project going!

Become part of our travel community:

0
0
0.000