Finding Our Way
Welcome to Laughlin, Nevada – One of the lowest-lying communities in Nevada Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area sits on the Colorado River across from Bullhead City, Arizona. The campground has 24 sites with full hook-ups and is first come first serve. We love this campground. Campground: Big
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We departed Walker Lake and headed through Hawthorne and on through the empty desert via Tonopah with our final destination being Goldfield. Hawthorne is the home to a very large Army ammo depot (“they” say the world’s largest) and you can see the bunkers throughout the country side. There are
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Walker Lake Recreation Area is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed recreation area which offers camping, boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking, and wildlife viewing. Walker Lake is about 12 miles by 5 miles and is located just north of Hawthorne. Sportsman’s Beach has 34 campsites with cabanas, picnic tables, and
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The drive from Cape Blanco State Park over the hills to I-5 was a beautiful drive with great weather. It was a bit slow going due to the nature of the road (highway 42) but it was still a beautiful drive. We made it over to I-5 and headed south
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On our way from Newport to Cape Blanco we passed through Bandon, a cute little coastal town which is the center of cranberry production for the area. Most of the cranberries had been harvested already but we managed to see one field where they were working away. The Bullards Beach
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Welcome to Ft Stevens State Park – where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Ft Stevens campground is quite large with more than 8 loops and almost 500 sites. Yes, it is large but each loop feels quaint and small (albeit it can feel crowded on weekends and during
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Our next destination was Mt St Helens so we choose a campground which had good access to the national monument. We found a cute little campground (11 RV sites and 11 tent sites) with some good reviews called Harry Gardner County Park. This park sits along the South Toutle River
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As we made our way from Vantage to Glenoma we drove through Yakima and on to Highway 12 where the Schneider Springs wildfire was burning. The sky in Yakima was a bit overcast and smokey but not as bad as we have seen before with wildfires. As we entered Naches
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Our next destination was Mount Rainier National Park with a one night stopover at a national forest campground along the Naches River. A few weeks earlier we had received an email from Recreation.gov notifying us that our reservation was cancelled with a full refund due to the campground being closed.
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Farragut State Park is about 40 minutes north of Coeur d’Alene and is one of our favorite state parks. Since we used to live in this area we are very familiar with the park and have not only stayed here many times before but have hiked every trail multiple times.
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