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Traveling to Bend OR this summer. Camping/wheeling recommendations?

Kelvin

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Hey folks, does anyone have any recommendations on good camping areas or trails in Wyoming, Idaho or Oregon? A friend and I are going to go up to Bend in early August. I have been to the Sawtooth mountains and they are beautiful, so that is a likely destination.
 

Blindranger

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Yes, so many recommendations. Here are some amazing spots that are roughly a linear path from SW Oregon into Bend.
  • Coffee Pot Crater
  • Birch Creek
  • Alvord Desert
  • Fields Station (Burgers & Shakes)
  • Steens Mountain Loop
  • Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge
  • Crack in the Ground
  • Pine Mountain Observatory
  • Newberry Crater / Paulina Peak
  • Bend
 

60wag

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Haven't wheeled there but would rec' Smith Rock for hiking and climbing. There's lots of cool lava flows to explore, Lava Cast is a good one. And Deschutes Brewery is definitely worth a stop.
 
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