Drove over the Cascades today to visit some friends back in Klamath Falls. When I got up to around 4,000′ there was snow on the pines and at 5,000′, the road had minimal shoulders because the snow banks were a couple three feet high. There was no snow on the roads, because the temperatures were above freezing so they were just wet.
Between getting off I-5 south of Eugene and before I got that high, along the way I stopped and took pictures of all the 5 Post Offices that are along OR-58.
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- Pleasant Hill – The sun was absolutely in the wrong spot, but when that happens the first thing I think is, ‘Oooh, lens flare.’ (3/29/25)
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- Dexter – The only legal parking for this post office was behind that hedge right behind the Miata which would have made seeing the car impossible. (3/29/25)
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- Lowell – Coming from the west, like I did, you can see the historic covered bridge and it looks like it is still in use. But when you get there it is just an illusion. (3/29/25)
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- Westfir – The Post Office is the flat roof part and, this is just a guess, the round roof is the community center, but there was no way to tell because the only signage is the ELCOME above the double doors. (3/29/25)
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- Oakridge – There was someone parked right where I am now when I first saw the post office so I slowly made a long slow circle around the block. When I got back, ta da! (3/29/25)
Tomorrow I am going to take a couple hundred-mile drive to capture a post office that when we lived in K-Falls, I thought it was a California PO because that is what Google says when you type in the address, but turns out it is physically located in Oregon. I have no idea what the folks in New Pine Creek, California do for their post office, use the Oregon one with a different Zip Code or the same Zip and a different +four. I won’t know and can’t ask the person behind the counter inside because it’ll be Sunday it isn’t open.
This will still leave one last post office in this neck of the woods, the one in Crater Lake Nation Park. It is located at the visitor center, while it is open I’m not so sure if I could get the Miata, with its all-season tires, up there. I’ll plan another trip down to Klamath Falls in the summer for another visit and catch it then.