Help plan my road trip? Tips appreciated!

I'm heading south beginning around Tonasket/Omak. The plan is to seek warmer temperatures and perhaps some sunshine while exploring lesser traveled parts of Washington and Oregon. I have about a week and a half to be back to the Canadian west coast.

I'm in a stock ACOR with upgraded tires. No lift, no winch, no chains, no aftermarket armor, and I'm solo. I do have 2 come-alongs and a variety of recovery gear though.

So nothing crazy, probably have to stick to lower elevations.

Tips for places to check out and visit would be sincerely appreciated.

 

Check out the Backroads Discovery Routes, there are routes for Washington - WABDR, and Oregon - ORBDR.

Basically they are routes that cross the entire state on mostly dirt roads. You don't have to do the complete route as they are broken down into sections. They are set up for motorcycles but I've done the southern half of the WA route and all of the OR route and didn't have any problems. Well... The Oregon route had a active fire that blocked a couple miles of the route and I had a hard time getting around that. Some of the Forest Service roads that showed up on my GPS map hadn't been used in years and petered out or were blocked.

There have been several heavy snow storms in the Pacific Northwest. Check your routes in either states for closures or heavy snow coverage.

 

A few years ago my wife and I worked for a company that was auditing roads for the BLM in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (mmm ... Trimble). Along with roads, we documented locations of culverts, fence lines, camp fire rings, etc. The place has some killer-view dispersed campsites as well as two notable lakes. If you're into hiking, the PCT passes thru there. There are many miles of dirt roads to go lose yourself. We stayed in nearby Ashland which is a cool college town.