While staying in Klamath Falls we drove down to the Lava Beds Natl Monument.  It’s a really unique place!  There are several volcano domes that erupted over a period of several thousand years.  It also has a very huge lava flow field and dozens of lava tube caves.

One of the volcano domes that erupted created a large crater that you can walk down into a ways.

Some of the caves are open for exploring.  Most people do self-guided tours of the caves and people are required to have a flashlight and hardhat and sometimes knee-pads and gloves in order to tour caves.  One is lighted and has a paved walkway but several are moderate or difficult – the difficult ones you have to crawl a lot.  Not for me!!  We didn’t do any cave tours because we had Chloe with us and didn’t want to leave her in the truck for any length of time.

There was also a cliffside not far from the lava flow area where ancient people drew lots of petroglyphs.  Unfortunately over the decades lots of settlers and modern people have put graffiti on parts of the wall.  There is a fenced off area now protecting the petroglyphs.

Here are pictures we took: