Those Young Guys – Finding Our Way
Campground: Tumwater National Forest Campground Location: Leavenworth, Washington (west of the town in the forest) Site: 6 Cost: $17 Services: Dry camp Comments: Nice, quiet campground with some private sites right on the river. Link to Map in “Where We’ve Been”
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Campground: Milo McIver State Park Location: Estacada, Oregon Site: A18 Cost: $13 Services: W/E Comments: A lovely hilly, forested campground with some big sites. Loved it. While you are there you can just feel Vortex I in 1970 happening all around you. Link to Map in “Where We’ve Been”
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Not far from the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. Well worth the trip! Campground: Champoeg State Park Location: Champoeg, Oregon Site: A10 Cost: $16 Services: W/E Comments: Nice, open, flat state park with lots of big sites to choose from. A few hiking trails around the park.
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Love this park and love the Willamette Valley in Oregon. So much to do there. Not only did we do a bunch of hiking in and around the falls at Silver Falls but we managed to find some time to explore the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. Beautiful! Campground: Silver Falls
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Campground: Nehalem Bay State Park Location: Nehalem, Oregon Site: B36 Cost: $16 Services: W/E Comments: Another of our favorite Oregon State Parks right on the beach. Some of the sites can be a bit small but the campground is quite large so you can probably find something if you not
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Campground: Fort Stevens State Park Location: Astoria, Oregon Site: 258 Cost: $18 Services: W/E Comments: We love this park and continue to return, over and over again. Lots of hiking and biking both on trails and on the beach. Great history, museum, fort, bunkers, batteries, shipwrecks, etc. You can watch
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We love to drive the Chuckanut Drive when we are visiting this area. Beautiful!. And stop at The Oyster Bar for fabulous views and great food! Campground: Larrabee State Park Location: Bellingham, Washington Site: T22 Cost: $28 Services: W/E Comments: A beautiful campground just south of Bellingham in a hilly,
Continue readingOur plans were to head eat on I-84 out of Portland and head up into the Blue Mountains to the Emmigrants Springs State Heritage Area for a while. Since this was early March we thought we would call to confirm they were open. Yep, no problem. This was about 2
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We encountered quite a bit of rain after leaving Sunset Bay so we decided to head indoors and discovered the wonderful Umpqua Discovery Center in Reedsport, Oregon. We ended spending almost the entire day there. No one else was there so we had the place to ourselves and just took
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We visited here in March during the winter storms. What great fun to watch the waves and see all the action in the Pacific. Just don’t turn your back on them! Campground: Sunset Bay State Park Location: Coos Bay, Oregon Site: D32 Cost: $16 Services: E Comments: Nice state
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