Hosting at Collier Memorial State Park

One week now at our June assignment at Collier Memorial State Park.  This park differs some from a typical state park.  Some years ago, a local logging businessman collected and donated logging equipment to preserve the history of this important industry.  The state created a museum, with one of the country's largest collection of such equipment.

On the opposite side of the road is a very nice campground, with forestland all around, as well as confluence of two rivers.  So far, we've seen few campers here, thus an uncrowded and peaceful place to stay.

We work in the gift shop and information center.  For several days, the temperature hovered in the 40s by day and freezing at night.  Which holds more significance when your only source of heat is a wood stove from 1854.  In a building with gaps in the roofing.  It's authentic, after all.

We share duties with three other host couples, all of us in spaces close by.  Quite different from our first hosting experience at Fort Stevens, where the volunteers were spread out throughout a large campground, with little interaction among them.

Tomorrow starts our first two days off.  We plan on touring Klamath Falls, some 30 miles south.  With only 20,000 souls in town, it won't take long.  Nearby Crater Lake National Park reportedly has 12' of snow still on the ground after this wet winter.  Maybe we will get up there next week.

Bruce