The Wild and Majestic Rogue River

CHERYL'S NEWS FROM CAMP WEBEGONE

These days the upper Rogue River is as wild as a river can be, sans migrating fish. 

The wild waters would be difficult for anyone or anything to cross - except that, near our campground, there is the Natural Bridge.

The Natural Bridge was formed from a lava tube. It really isn't a bridge per se, as there is no underside. That is, you can walk over the bridge just fine, but you can't pass beneath it. In other words, it is a walkway over a tunnel.

  

Visually, the Natural Bridge is not a formation that I would be able to call wildly beautiful. 

I was hoping - at the very least - that when the rock was wet after a rain, some majesty would emerge. But disappointingly, no. It still just looks like cold gray stone.  


If the Natural Bridge were not completely fenced off, you would walk from one side of the river to the other side here.

  

Where the Rogue River enters the lava tube is partially obscured by the viewpoint landing so I don't have a good photo of it, yet. 

 

This picture is of another lava tube entrance that is located downriver from the Natural Bridge lava tube entrance. A portion of this lava tube has collapsed, so some of the river water flows through and some flows back out the entrance. The power of the river flowing out the lava tube exit is not truly captured in this photo. You have to see it and hear it to really feel its power.

 

Rich and I look forward to seeing the changing beauty of the river as the water level changes over the course of the summer.