Red Bluff KOA Journey (by Jordan)

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There are three ponds at this RV park. Two of them have fountains. The last pond has frogs and tadpoles! I caught some of the tadpoles, but I couldn't catch the frogs, because they were on rocks that are behind thick bushes. One night, around 9 o'clock, I caught eight toads and kept them for one night. 

There was also a pool and hot tub. The pool was kind of cold and the hot tub was too hot. In the pool mom dropped coins and we collected them.  The boys gave me their money. I bought a frozen push-pop in the camp store with them. 

I did a lot of cartwheels at this site. It was fun.



I liked playing bocce ball.

Subway Cave Trail was cool because it was dark and mysterious. It is a lava tube. We got our flashlights out when we got inside. I was not afraid. 




At Lassen Volcanic National Park we ate lunch in the Jeep after we walked around the Manzanita Lake. We saw goslings with their mother. 

Very volcano-like


Snow plants stand out a lot on the Lily Pond Nature Trail.



Dad's theory on Hot Rock was a person sat down on the rock and immediately jumped up and said, "Ow, this is hot! I'll call this 'Hot Rock!'" 


There was a slope on the part that I'm on and we slid down it

The best part about this park is the snow!

This is me doing a thumbs up, but it's kind of hard to do!

This is a slope Caleb picked to slide down! (We did it about 7 times and then we were done)

If you look closely, you can see sled-marks in the hill where we slid down

It was good snow for sledding down either on our butts or on a blue Ikea bag


The mud pots smelled awful

Location: Red Bluff KOA Journey, 100 Lake Ave, Red Bluff, CA 96080, USA

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