[paulat]

This is the map offered by the Lodge they were going to:

http://www.tututun.com/images/tututun_map.pdf

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thanks. See how the lodge is actually east of Gold Beach on the Rogue River? That is the road from Merlin I was talking about. Coming from Roseburg it would be the most direct route, and compared to going via Hwy 42 and Hwy 101, would be on winding 2-lanes for less than half the distance of going via those routes. In bad weather and based on my map I might have been tempted to take it, too, though not in icy/snowy weather.