So with Embry Riddle closing and going to online classes our daughter and her boyfriend are having to go from Prescott to Newport. With the current situation going on in the country how easy or not easy is this going to be for them? Could use some direction from you all on the west coast.

In contrast our son and his girlfriend are going to be coming home as he goes to college at Embry too. Prescott to Pennsylvania. Scary times for us as parents.

Are you talking about the drive?

Looking at my AAA maps of AZ, NV and OR I would go from Prescott north west on AZ Hwy69 to #89 and then north to I40 and then west to Kingman, AZ and then take AZ Hwy 93 north into Las Vegas ,NV to Hwy 95 and take that north to Fallon, NV, I would take NV #50 west to I 80 and take it into Reno NV to Hwy395 , go north on 395 to Susanville, CA . There are two ways from there to get into Oregon, one is take CA 139 north to Klamath Falls, OR and then north on OR Hwy 97 or go west out of Susanville to CA#89 and take it north to ! 5 and take it north up to Eugene, OR and take Hwy99W to Hwy 20 and take it west to Newport.
If they are going into Klamath Falls from Susanville, CA , take OR Hwy 97out of Klamath Falls north to OR #58, take it into Eugene and then take Hwy 99W up to Hwy 20 west into Newport This is the scenic route with less traffic and stops also
IHTHs
EDITED,: Caution them on NOT USING there smart phone GPS based navigation for short cuts , especially on this trip
My grandson drove form Florida to here in Bend,OR, he called me from American falls, ID and ask me how to get from I84 to Bend, I gave him instruction exact instructions from Burns, OR when he drove West on OR Hwy 20 from Burns to the east side of Bend. He ended up using his phone directions about 8 mile east of town at night and ended up on a dirt road which did ended up getting him to a paved road in Bend. it was in the late spring and there was no wet or bad roads he had to drive on, we have had several out of state people get lost and one died form getting stuck in the mountains in a snow bank and tried to walk out, DON'T DO THAT No short cuts Stay on the pavement

Thank you.
For now we are going to have them stay in Prescott or if they have to they'll fly to Portland for his parents to pick them up.

Why detour off the 99 west to the 5 when the 99 turns into the 5 in central Sacramento.
Way to many people on that route for me I've never seen snow or ice between las Vegas and Susanville, even in the middle of Feb. on the way to Tucson, AZ 5 years ago, same thing on attending the races at Las Vegas in this time of year either

Having to drive. Would rather they stay away from CA. But worried about the nothingness of the desert too

I have a friend who was a owner operator for a 18 wheeler that was only hauling here in Oregon for the last 5 yrs before he retired, he told that a lot of the truckers hauling north into OR and or WA will get off I5 at Weed and take 97 north to the 58 and take that into Eugene area to miss going over the pass on I5 into Ashland and Medford Maybe a good option in the future going south also

Agree, far better road wise. Weed to Medford can be nasty in the winter. On another note the reason I like 93 is I traveled from Yakima. Easy for me to hit I-84 from I-82 then south to PostFalls then south on the 93. 93 for the most part is nice road, not traveled as much by the big trucks. From Vegas it’s easy to run up the 93 to I-84 then on to Portland. Of course, again, not the best route in the winter. Really have to watch the weather. Those Sierra Nevada storms move real fast. Same holds true for the storms off the Rockies.

I had some work done on my current car trailer at the Pace Factory in Hurricane,UT, several years back after the MATS races in Las Vgeas. I left there and drove north on the 15 to Cedar City then took a Utah highway west to the NV #93, and then north to Ely, NV to go west to Fallon, NV and then home to OR I was looking for strange creatures and weird flying objects all the way to Ely on the 93
For those that don't know eastern NV,Groom Lake, area 51 is a little west of the 93 between the 15 and Ely, NV. A lot of that area is restricted to nonmilitary aircraft from flying through that area also

Drove it one time at night. After riding up that long grade outside of Ely you could see the lights from aircraft flying in and out of Groom Lake. Some of the lights didn’t look quite right moving quickly across the sky.

Ely....Hotel Nevada...and that's all I'm going to say about that area lol.

Me thinks the "secret" would be flown at night with no lights like the Air Force did around AFB plant #42 and Edwards AFB
I've heard more than one person talk about being outside at night in Boron, North Edwards,Mojave and other places close the Edwards AFB base hearing low flying things at night with no lights

Do you want to share the route they took with us, that might help someone up here in OR. or WA.. going to Prescott or central AZ sometime in the future