Lakeview Oregon

My favorite town was Lakeview. The town promotes itself as "The Hand Gliding Capital of the West." Lakeview is localed east of Klamath Falls on Highway 140. It is also known as one of the tallest town in Oregon. It's elevation is 4,800 feet above sea level. Read more about the events, maps, history and the town at: http://www.geocities.com/lakevieworegon, http://www.lakevieworegon.org, http://www.lakevieworegon.us/home.html, http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g51941-Lakeview_Oregon-Vacations.html
The town has a picture of a cowboy that looks a lot like the one in Las Vegas. It is found several places. At the town entrance, at the entrance to the fair grounds and even on the Safeway sign. I searched for a while to get the story on the cowboy symbol and finally found a blog that told all about the contravery over the two different ones. You can read about it at: http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/03/lakeview_to_vote_on_tallman_sy.html

I wanted to go visit this little local museum. I love to explore the small places that make up a town but it was closed. I will check it out next time I come through here.

We ate at the Queen Burger that was next to the museum. It was good and very hometown feel.

The water tank about the city say "1988 Finalist for All America City"

The best price on gas was at the Cheveron Station on the corner of the highway junction. It was hard to get used to the fact that you don’t pump your own gas in Oregon. There are servicemen that fill your tank. They tell you not to pump your gas they do it for you. One of the service men said that in Lakeview alone that created 20 plus jobs. So it was good for us and for them. He said they are one of two states that the service stations service includes pumping your gas. It was kind of fun to be waited on. He cleaned our windshield and offered to check the oil.

Hunters Hot Springs has Old Perpetual Geyser that goes off every 90 minutes or so in the rainy season. It shoots water up of 60 feet in the air. It is the only hot water geyser in the Pacific Northwest. You can stay at the resort and enjoy the hot springs and the Geyser Grill Resturant. Read more about Hunter Hot Springs, Oregon at: http://www.huntersresort.com