Name: Christmas Lights
Start: 2014-12-02T00:00:00-08:00
End: 2014-12-02T23:59:59-08:00

Past Activity

Christmas Lights

Start date: 12/02/2014
Start time: 12:00 AM
End date: 12/02/2014
End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

River Forks Park near Roseburg features a wonderful Christmas lights display that grows more spectacular each year. We will leave Shopko parking lot at 3:45, arriving at Applebees Restaurant in Roseburg for a nice dinner (cost included). After a brief tour of the Roseburg city lights, including a sweep past the Douglas County Courthouse, we will drive through the light display at the park and return home by 9:00 pm.
Cost: Members $57 Non-Members $59 Due Nov. 20
RESERVATIONS AND CHECKS TO: Liz Reanier (541) 687-1925
853 Ascot, Eugene, OR 97401

Event Leader: Verna Kocken
Event Leader Phone: 541-513-3501
Event Leader Email: VKocken@obsidians.org
Assistant Leader:
Event category: Bus Trips
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Departure Location: See Trip Description
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Season: 2014
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
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Member Fees: 57
Elevation Gain:
Non-Member Fees: 59
Committee: Bus Trips
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, a group of 26 Obsidians and guests left the Shopko parking lot in the afternoon and arrived at Applebee’s Restaurant in Roseburg at 5:20 pm for dinner. We used up all their available tables and tied up the kitchen for about the next hour. Then we took a driving tour down Northeast Stephens, past the library and the beautifully decorated Douglas County Court house. From there we went out Harvard Ave, Stewart Parkway, and out of town on Garden Valley Road to River Forks Park where the North and South Umpqua Rivers join and become the Umpqua. The light show there is spearheaded by the Rotary Club and sponsored by a variety of local businesses and organizations. Spectacular additions appear each year. The newest arrival is a 41 ft. tall nutcracker sculptured with chainsaws from a variety of felled trees. The working apparatus has enough force to crack coconuts (though we did not try it out!) The weather held for the trip through the light show, but the rain came hard and fast on the way home, stopping just short of Eugene for long enough for us to get to our cars.