A great place to spend some time especially when needing to drive through the hub-bub of Seattle. Some place to get away from the maddening traffic and crowds. Close to Chuckanut Drive and the water. Campground: Larrabee State Park Location: Bellingham, Washington Site: T21 Cost: $28 Services: W/E Comments: Another
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Tumwater National Forest Campground – Leavenworth, Washington
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”
Continue readingMilo McIver State Park – Estacada, Oregon
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”
Continue readingChampoeg State Park – Oregon
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.
Continue readingSilver Falls State Park – Silverton, Oregon
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
Continue readingNehalem Bay State Park – Nehalem, Oregon
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
Continue readingFort Stevens State Park – Astoria, Oregon
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
Continue readingLarrabee State Park – Bellingham, Washington
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 readingPendleton KOA – Oregon
Our 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
Continue readingCarl G. Washburne Memorial State Park – Florence, Oregon
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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