Modoc's Surprising Valley


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Our Modoc County road trip continued with a couple of delightful days in and around Surprise Valley. We base-camped in Cedarville which has a couple of good places to stay including a comfortable hot-springs resort a short ride outside of town. Many people stop there when traveling to and from the annual “Burning Man” event not far away in Nevada. Cedarville

also has, at least in the summer months, a nice café and a terrific little shop where I enjoyed some very good coffee. That’s a high priority for me. Only a few years ago you could drive thousands of miles up and down and back and forth across America in a futile and frustrating search for a decent cup of coffee. Now, thankfully, you can find coffee stands and espresso shops virtually everywhere, and little Cedarville did not disappoint. My crew and I were taken by the beauty of Surprise Valley. I could just imagine how surprisingly sweet its gentle landscape must have appeared to pioneers a century and one-half ago after their long, hot and bone-dry struggles to survive on their westward journeys across the deserts of Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. There were no lattés waiting for them in Cedarville, but there was good water, and cool forests beckoned in the nearby Warner Mountains. Then they had to cross the Warners on their way to Oregon, but that’s another and related story.

 



Cedarville and the Sandhill Cranes are waiting for your visit and little has changed since our stop in the summer of ’06. By the way, the very comfortable hot springs resort I referred to in my notes is (surprise) Surprise Valley Hot Springs. It really is a terrific, family-owned retreat, and the prices are quite reasonable. I suggest a late-night soak on your own private patio under a blanket of stars.

 




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