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05-25-2010, 11:40 PM
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3 Rivet Member
1974 25' Tradewind
Lake Oswego
, Oregon
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 218
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Please help me find fun camping in Oregon!
Hi! I live in Portland and would love to find a place to go for an easy trip to take the girl out for her first time of the season. I don't want to venture too far, but would like to find something that feels like I am 'camping'. It doesn't seem like it should be too hard
Thanks, Pam
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05-26-2010, 12:06 AM
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Aluminum in 3-D
1968 28' Ambassador
Seaside
, Oregon
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 580
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Pam, Our favorite place to camp is Vernonia, both the city park and Airport park for boon docking. We hope to get out to both parks this summer. The city park has full service and is just 2 blocks from the grocery store so no worries about stocking the refrigerator.
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Wally Byam Airstream Club
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05-26-2010, 06:11 AM
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4 Rivet Member
2004 30' Classic Slideout
Between Here
, And There
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 379
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Camping Around Portland
Not sure how far you want to travel but Island Cove Park at Sauvie Island is a nice little RV park with several Airstream always parked there. We have also camped at an RV park on the Washington side of the columbia at Hood River. The drive down highway 14 to Hood River is beautiful. And of course if you like the beach Cape Lookout State Park in Tillamook is not that far.
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05-26-2010, 07:47 AM
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3 Rivet Member
2006 34' Classic S/O
Parkdale
, Oregon
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 144
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There's a nice park in Hood River County (county park) called Toll Bridge Park. We lived about a mile from this park for almost 40 years and in nice weather it is beautiful. When our house sold last fall we camped there for almost 2 weeks while we finished up cleaning out our house and shop. Lots of tall fir and cotten woods. River right close by. Lots of hiking close by. Nice little town near by, Parkdale, with a nice little store if you want something in the grocery or hard ware line. We were up there about a week and a half ago and it was beautiful.
Anne Marie
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05-26-2010, 01:49 PM
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Ready-to-Travel
2012 30' International
Walkerton
, Virginia
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 3,166
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You can take it from your neighbor in Virginia - Ft Stevens SP is the bomb. Mouth of the Columbia, shipwreck, bombed in WWII, Lewis & Clark site.
Pat
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05-26-2010, 05:00 PM
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4 Rivet Member
1998 28' Excella
Dolores
, Colorado
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 324
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Pam;
I agree with Pat. Fort Lewis, a little west of Astoria is a great site. You can go on line under Washington and Oregon State Parks and you will find several up along the Columbia Gorge as well as up and down the entire coast line. We try to get up in that area whenever we can. We were in Astoria a couple years ago and stayed at Ft. Lewis.
Happy Camping
Bob
Four Corners Unit/CAC
TAC CO - 7
WBCCI # 10105
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05-26-2010, 10:14 PM
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2 Rivet Member
2007 16' Bambi
Bend
, Oregon
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 89
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Yes, Fort Stevens! It's a ways to drive but so much to see and do around there. Some pics and links to the park at fort stevens | 'STREAMING
Closer to home is Timberlake Campground, on the Oregon side of the Gorge near The Bridge of the Gods. Not very rugged--nicely groomed, close to civilized things like Maryhill Museum and Skamania Lodge--but a beautiful drive and easy to get to ( leroy’s place | 'STREAMING)
Let us know where you went! I'm always looking for new spots close to Portland for a quick overnight getaway. This is a good topic : )
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05-29-2010, 08:50 AM
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3 Rivet Member
1974 25' Tradewind
Lake Oswego
, Oregon
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 218
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thanks!
Thank you all for the replies! Looks like I have some investigating to do...
I would really like to find some place to go where everyone is not right on top of each other. Is that a realistic dream? A little bit of outdoor heaven in my Airstream...
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05-30-2010, 09:56 AM
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3 Rivet Member
1975 Argosy 24
West Linn
, Oregon
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 241
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Hi, Pam!
You're getting some good suggestion here! We're at the Nehalem Bay State Park campground this weekend, and think it's just beautiful. Just a short walk to the beach, but the camp sites are behind a sand dune so it cuts down on the wind. We also like Ft. Stevens, and Silver Falls State Park is a short drive from Portland that has some beautiful hiking trails around the waterfalls. I've also heard that Champoeg Park just south of Wilsonville off of I-5 is a nice one, but haven't been there myself. Good luck & happy camping - we'd love to see pictures too!
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AIR #: 27389
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06-10-2010, 07:34 PM
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1 Rivet Member
2009 23' FB Flying Cloud
Seattle
, Washington
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 9
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If you feel like taking a longer drive, we recently stayed at Tumalo State Park in Bend. Very nice park and helpful park hosts. Enjoy.
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06-10-2010, 09:39 PM
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4 Rivet Member
1961 22' Safari
Union
, Oregon
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 477
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Here's another choice, about 3 hours east on I 84. Boardman Marina and RV Park right on the Columbia River (541-481-7217). Large grassy sites, well kept, clean, full hookups if wanted, rest rooms, showers, dump station. Mostly back-ins, but a good number of pull-thrus. They take reservations, but I've never found it necessary midweek. Watch the tugs and barges travel by and maybe the sternwheeler, too. Well east of the mountains, so you are in a different world than the valley.
Sam
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06-17-2010, 05:09 PM
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1 Rivet Member
Currently Looking...
Portland
, Oregon
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 9
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One of my favorite quick weekend getaways is Spruce Run Campground, located about 5 miles south of MP 20 on Hwy 26, on Lower Nehalem River Road. It's a nice campground that has several sites that back right up to the river and there's a small lake just two miles up a logging road that is stocked with trout! It seems to fill up quick in the summer, but if you go on a nice weekend in late fall or early spring, there's always sites available.
My second choice is Nehalem Falls Campground if Spruce Run is full. This campground is just 14 miles down the same road as Spruce Run. Unfortunately a bridge got washed out a few years ago, so you now have to backtrack all the way to Hwy 26 and come at it from Hwy 53; doubling the mileage and time it takes to get to Spruce Run. The advantage is this campground doesn't see near the visitors as it used to because of the washed out bridge, so finding a site here is a pretty good bet.
Enjoy!
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'96 F250 7.3 Powerstoke, 5-spd manual, 4x4, EC, SB
'94 KIT Companion Sunchaser 23XT
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Portland, OR
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