On the way out of Wood Village towards Mount Hood, we stopped to visit McMenamins – Edgefield, a 1930s era poorhouse converted in the 1990s into a hotel.  Edgefield sits on 70 acres and has its own garden for its restaurant:

We had the overflow lot more or less to ourselves:

We visited the glass blowing shop, where the artist was fashioning a drinking glass:

The watertower is the tallest structure at the hotel:

The interior of the hotel itself has been maintained in its 1930s interior, so much so that the hotel rooms share a common bathroom just as the original residents did 80 years ago:

There’s also a pottery shop (closed today), a brewery, and a winery.  It’s a very interesting place!

We also did our first letterboxing attempt at Edgefield, but I’ll let Trish talk more about that:

Leaving Edgefield, we drove up to Mount Hood.  We are dispersed camped near Trillain Lake, on the southern slope of Mount Hood. The National Forests usually allow camping in campgrounds for free if they are “closed” for the season, so we first tried going to Trillain Lake campground, since the source I had seen said that it closed on 9/30. When we got there, the campground host told us that the campground would be open until 10/6, and that once it’s closed the gate is locked. Since the campground is open, we would have to pay $20 a night, so we settled for a nice clearing a few miles from the campground which is actually an abandoned airstrip. There are no services, but that’s fine as we are completely self contained in our RV, and you can’t beat the quiet solitude!   See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.