My dad was a teacher, a guard at Alcatraz for a while, but, his favorite job was as a surveyor for CalTrans, and he worked on I-5 for yrs. Killed a lot of rattlesnakes! Hot and dusty work. A beautiful road, so my dad helped build it. I'm proud of his part in it!
For a refreshing, super-scenic shortcut, take Siskiyou County road A-28 north from Grenada to Hornbrook. It's a good 2-lane highway which closely parallels the railroad, skips Yreka, and crosses the Klamath River at Klamathon Bridge. A certain politician named Collier pulled strings, and got I-5 built through his home town.
Sight for sore eyes... I just moved away from Medford, OR to miserably cold MT. I only lived 3 blocks from I-5 and loved attacking the Siskiyou Pass on a sunny day in my Lincoln Mark VII. Already can't wait to move back.
Weed is one of my favorite spots in the Shasta area. The views of Mt Shasta from inside of town are spectacular. I wouldn't wanna be around if Mt Shasta decided to erupt, though. I think it would be all she wrote. The hilly landscape you drove through between Weed Airport and Yreka was caused by a massive landslide down the north slope of Mt Shasta; it created countless hummocks that blanketed the entire valley. I don't have details on when it happened but one would assume it was the product of one of Shasta's eruptions over the last 10,000 years.
Great stuff. Really enjoyed the footage of the Siskiyou Summit though my favourite view was at 7:48, I love how the landscape there opens up like that 😁
On one road trip I took from Seattle to California, I stopped in Weed to pick up some snacks. I looked at the time on my phone: 4 : 20pm. Edit: But seriously, this stretch of I-5 is one of my favorite stretches of road on the west coast. The views of Mount Shasta on I-5 south are amazing.
Weed has a Quality Inn that is, in fact, a quality inn. I try to make Weed a stop on my itinerary whenever I drive from WA to SoCal; depends on whether I'm rushed or not. I prefer to drive along the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains and east slopes of the Cascades, but if I have to take I-5 I try to make Weed my last stop before returning home.
T 13:16 you missed the exit to All Sar Liquor... THE BARGAIN in booze in Nor Cal. To many Oregonians this is a MUST destination to escape obscene liquor prices.
@@Sacto1654 Hell yeah.. Just got back to J'Ville Or. from Carmel and stopped there at 11:00 AM on the way. Got Tequilla and Gran Marnier. Ripping deals.
Can't wait to see Eastern Oregon succeed from their state and join Idaho!!! That way they feel as if they are part of their state compared to Western Oregon totally different
This is 1 video that reminds me of how Oregon to me is like the Canada to California. The scenery changes going north, I find to be rather identical to traveling north from Western Washington up into British Columbia, Canada. Just too bad that Canada has very much closed its border to us over the past 20 years since 2001. But far northern California's Shasta Valley has been one of my top 10 favorite areas of all the 3 West Coast States. As A native Washingtonian who's attended college in Bellingham, near the Washington/Canada Border, I've gotten to know that isolated section of Western Washington which increased my craze for the northernmost county in California on I-5 to where it became my #1 hot spot for driving to and spending 2 nights plus at.
If I can't make it to the eastern Sierra Nevada along US-395 my concession is making a stop at Weed CA. The next best thing if you're into a more-or-less alpine setting and surrounded by conifers.
Nice video, and though you've shown this stretch of I-5 previously, it still looks like a good drive-ODOT work zones notwithstanding. What were all those semis doing parked just south of the Siskiyou Pass, though? A bit of trivia: the I-5 goes through an area north of Mt. Shasta where earthen mounds were spotted on satellite imagery-the Science Channel's What on Earth? show had this. What made the mounds? Gophers. Yep, gopher mounds that can be seen from orbit.
We have a few areas of these mima mounds in WA as well. Jury's out on the gopher theory, but it hasn't been ruled out either. There have been many explanations for these mima mounds, but because of the varied landscapes and differences in climate from area to area, it's difficult to attribute these mima mounds to anything common to them all -- except the possibility of a bunch of busy-ass prairie dogs or gophers.
Except that most of the southernmost counties in Oregon intended to become part of the State of Jefferson. I do wonder how far that movement would've gotten had it not been for Pearl Harbor and WWII.
