The Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers
and Karen Duquette's sister Ilse Blahak
at Oneonta Gorge in Oregon
July 28, 2013

The Oneonta Gorge is in the Columbia River Gorge in the American state of Oregon. The U.S. Forest Service has designated it as a botanical area because of the unique aquatic and woodland plants that grow there. The basalt walls are home to a wide variety of ferns, mosses, hepatics and lichens, many of which grow only in the Columbia River Gorge. Oneonta Creek runs through the gorge. There are four major waterfalls on the creek, but they are not short, easy hikes. It is a very tricky scramble over logs and boulders to get into the gorge, but several people were in the gorge at the time that the two RV Gypsies visited. The water was cold, so Karen, Ilse, and Lee did not go in the water, and they did not hike to the falls at Oneonta Gorge.

Below: Lee, Karen and Ilse were in awe at the lichen and jagged rocks on the side of the tunnel.

Below: The pedestrian tunnel

Below: A sign about the Oneonta tunnel

Below: The Oneonta tunnel from the other side

Below: A small bridge over the Oneonta Gorge and a view from each side of the bridge. There were people walking in the clear, cold, rocky stream below the bridge. They are hard to see because they were in the dark shadow of the bridge.

Below: The street and the railroad tracks both form additional bridges over Oneonta Gorge

Below: Ilse Blahak photographed the two RV Gypsies as they walked hand-in-hand back through the tunnel to their truck. "How Cute" said Ilse.

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