Name: Shakesperean Theater, Crater Lake
Start: 2013-09-10T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2013-09-11T23:59:59-07:00

Past Activity

Shakesperean Theater, Crater Lake

Start date: 09/10/2013
Start time: 12:00 AM
End date: 09/11/2013
End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

ASHLAND SHAKESPEREAN THEATER, CRATER LAKE

Depart Shopko at 8:00 am, coffee stop at I5 rest area, lunch on your own in historic Jacksonville. We will check into the Best Western Motel in Medford to stow luggage and then board the bus again to Ashland, on your own for dinner. Attend the free show “on the (theater) green” and performance of Midsummer Night’s Dream ($60 tickets included) in the Elizabethan theater. Return to the hotel overnight with an included continental breakfast or breakfast on your own at the nearby Black Bear Restaurant. Load the bus at 9:00 am. Return via Crater Lake- lunch on your own there. Leave Crater Lake by 2:00 pm to be back at Shopko by 5 - 5:30 pm.

Cost: Members $190; Non- members $194; DUE AUG 7
RESERVATIONS AND CHECKS TO: LIZ REANIER

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: 2013
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
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Total Distance:
Member Fees: 190
Elevation Gain:
Non-Member Fees: 194
Committee: Bus Trips
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Our bus left Eugene at 8:00 a.m. and headed south on I-5. We enjoyed a coffee break at the rest area just north of Roseburg, resumed travel and arrived at Jacksonville about 11:30 a.m. The group of 24 had lunch on our own. Several of us rode the trolley tour and saw the creek where gold was discovered, heard the stories of the two town bells, and enjoyed the historic brick buildings of the town center and residences.

We checked into a Medford Best Western Motel for an afternoon rest, then left for dinner and exploration of Ashland. A contemporary band provided a concert on the green in front of the Elizabethan Theater. Our play, Midsummer Night’s Dream, was a production full of color- from the costumes, to the projected lighting, to the groups of intertwining characters and sub-plots. Thoroughly enjoyable and done with verve.

Though our theater night did not get us back to the motel until about 11:30 pm, our group was loading and ready to go at 8:45 am. We visited three spectacular Rogue River parks, lunched at Annie Creek Restaurant, and entered Crater Lake National Park. Our visit to Crater Lake was brief, but we saw the lake at its stunning best.

We exited Crater Lake Park through the north entrance and traveled the North Umpqua Highway with a pie and ice cream stop at the Steamboat Inn. We arrived back at the Shopko parking lot at a little after 6:00 pm.

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