Picnic on the Umpqua River

One of the day trips I wanted to make was up Highway 138 to commune with nature and find some of the waterfalls I had read about. We packed a lunch, picked up Mae, drove to Winston where Helen & Terry live and followed them up Hwy 138 to our first stop; Deadline Falls. May through October you can find sea-run salmon and steelhead jumping this falls on their journey from the ocean to their spawning grounds. The trail to the falls is a beautiful easy trail

Lots of moss on the trees.

We made it to the falls and I was the first one to spot a salmon jumping up the falls.

This was the spot but alas Dick couldn’t get a picture of the salmon jumping out of the water. All 5 of us did get to see the salmon.

I can’t remember what made us so happy that we all got to see a salmon or that it was finally lunch time.

After we all ate too much we headed back to the cars and headed to the next falls we wanted to find.

Susan Creek Falls is 28 miles from Roseburg, the trail is .8 miles up Susan Creek to the falls. It is a scenic 50 foot waterfall that plunges over moss-lined rock cliffs.

The pond at the bottom is a good place to cool off your feet on a hot day.

It was not a hot day but a great place just to take it all in and rest for the trek down to the car.

On the way home we stopped at the Colliding Rivers viewpoint. a rare geologic phenomenon occurs at this site where the North Umpqua River and the Little river collide head-on.

Little River is coming in from the right hand side of the picture and the N Umpqua is on the left and makes a turn which causes the 2 rivers to collide.