Activities
Curtain’s Up at OSF
What’s happening behind the curtains? Find out with a backstage tour of all three Oregon Shakespeare Festival theaters. Check out props like fake food, silly hats, and jeweled swords. Watch flying walls, as one set magically changes into another. Tours are led by the OSF actors, who won’t mind if you ask questions like, “Ever forget your line?” or “Ever trip on stage?” Between the tour and this season’s “Comedy of Errors” (set in the Wild, Wacky West), you’ll know why it’s called a “play!”
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, www.osfashland.org
Lions and Tigers and Bears…
The animals at Winston’s Wildlife Safari are uncommonly busy in the summertime. The giraffes are showing off for the car-safari visitors, the tigers are finding shade for their catnaps, and the elephants… well, they’re busy with their artwork. It’s true––the abstract paintings produced by the talented elephants are for sale in the gift shop at Wildlife Safari, the
Pacific Northwest’s only drive-through wild animal park. Leave your pets at home.
Wildlife Safari, Winston, 800.355.4848, www.WildlifeSafari.net
Into the Caldera We Go
Get up close and personal with a volcano! Boat tours at Crater Lake National Park take visitors around the six-mile-wide caldera, or crater, created by the eruption and collapse of Mt. Mazama almost 7,000 years ago. A mile-long trail from the rim of the crater plunges down to the boat docks, where tours leave several times daily during the summer.
Crater Lake Boat Tours, 541.594.3000, www.nps.gov/crla
