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  • Marcia's place
  • private business Portland OR
  • funky little place in a really nice part of town - thanks M!

  • Grand Hotel
  • McMenamin's, McMinnville OR
  • cool old place with all the usual McMenamin's amenities. Parking is two blocks away. Downtown McMinnville is pretty cool, nice restaurants, nice coffee spots

  • Aspen Motel
  • private business Oakridge OR
  • Crummy little place, but nice tv and good wifi. Oakridge has a real Appalachian feel to it, not in a good way.

  • Sutton Campground
  • Suislaw National Forest, Florence OR
  • Nice clean bathroom, no shower, near 101 but quiet, 20 yards out of the campground you're in the sand dunes

  • Chickahominy Campground
  • Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Hines OR
  • What a welcome place! There is a lot of nothing between Boise and Bend. I saw some RVs just pulled off at the side of the road, and a couple at the rest stop, but there's no real place to stop for 100 miles except a couple of high-end RV palaces in Burns. So thank goodness for this pleasant stop.

  • Edgefield
  • McMenamin's, Troutdale OR
  • Disneyland for adults! many bars, three restaurants, weekend concerts, historical buildings, free coffee, beautiful grounds, and warm soaking pools with groovy little shower thingies and complementary bathrobes. deee-LUX! There are men's and women's dorms at opposite ends of the third floor, so one can stay relatively cheaply.

  • Wetmore Campground
  • Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Unity OR
  • Developed yet rustic and primitive, if that makes any sense. It's laid out nicely, but seems terribly underused and under-maintained. There are non-working no water spigots and a "No Water" sign. The fact that the Forest Service charges only $5 tells you what you need to know about the condition of the place. I however am liking it just fine and am happy to be here! Yellow Pine Campground is 1/2 away, much bigger and more open, but also underused and under-maintained. Six campers in a 40 site place on Fourth of July

  • Boice Floras Lake Campground
  • Curry County OR, Langlois OR
  • Real name is Boice Cope Campground, but that hides its coolest feature, that it's on a sweet little freshwater lake! Site T-2 also looks awesome. Turns out you can park on the grass. This place is crazy popular with kiteboarders and windsurfers, of which there are many in Oregon. Floras Lake is a pretty little jewel of a freshwater lake separated from the Pacific by just one little sand dune. Crowded though the place is, I am angled away from it all pointing at the lake so I can pretend I'm all by myself.

  • Jackson Wellspring
  • private business Ashland OR
  • right outside Ashland, dusty little hippie place near the fancy Lithia Hot Springs Resort. The pools were excellent and clean, as was the pavilion area with wifi and electrical outlets. But the rest of the place was third world and had a weird vibe.

  • Patrick Creek Road
  • Smith River Recreation Area, Cave Junction OR
  • This is Saturday of Labor Day weekend, and every site in all three campgrounds along Route 199 is taken. Somewhat depressed, I turned on the newly paved road on the other side of the creek from Patrick Creek Campground, and surprise, there was an area where clearly folks had camped before a few miles up the road. It's quite nice, right by the creek, and no one has bothered me - woo!

  • Odessa Campground
  • Fremont Wimena National Forest, Klamath Falls OR
  • a real find! On a stretch of road otherwise bereft of camping, maybe 3 rarely traveled miles off the busy highway. Not a soul has been here in my 18 hours or so of residency. Sites are primitive. There is a place to put a kayak into the slough. The site is right on the edge of USFS property, there are barns and farm buildings 1/2 mile away. Bathroom is unlocked!

  • Four Winds Motel
  • private business Depoe Bay OR
  • pretty cheap, had a coupon in the coupon book, on the hill north oflovely downtown Depoe Bay. I enjoyed my stay!

  • Whittaker Creek
  • Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Florence OR
  • pleasant, quiet campground. off the road across a little bridge, on the creek.

  • Harris Beach State Park
  • Oregon State Parks, Brookings OR
  • deluxe state park. Almost close enough to walk to town, beach and tidepools and trees and grass, pretty much everything

  • Chinook Winds Casino
  • private business Lincoln City OR
  • a little blessing for us budget RVers, a casino right on the ocean with a parking lot dedicated to (free) RV parking. The lot is not close to level, which is annoying, but everything else is very user friendly. Can walk to the beach, or any kind of amenity you might want.

  • Lookout Campground
  • Willamette National Forest, Blue River OR
  • mostly fisherman, got a great spot at the dead end right by the lake, a few miles from Terwilliger Hot Springs

  • Marion Forks Campground
  • Willamette National Forest, Detroit OR
  • Glad I stopped here, really nice campground at a cool place, behind a State of Oregon trout hatchery. The campground is pretty deluxe, there are heavy wooden fences lining the roadway and each campsite, I guess to clearly delimit where people should walk and where they shouldn't. So the forest ares are pretty pristine. The campground is either new or recently renovated. The hatchery has been around for a while.

  • Le Page Campground
  • Army Corps of Engineers, Umatilla OR
  • At the mouth of the John Day River. Mostly families with big boats and big RVs. Like Army Corps campgrounds in general, it's a highly controlled place. I-84 is 1/3 mile away and it is line of sight with nothing but water between it and you, so it's pretty noisy. Quite pretty though, looking right out on the bay ... between the parallel parked big rigs and all their big toys.

  • Herman Creek Campground
  • Mt Hood National Forest, Columbia Gorge OR
  • on the steep hill overlooking the Columbia River. Kind of a gloomy spot, but handy in the heart of the gorge area

  • Sisters Campground
  • private business Sisters OR
  • handy city-run campground, easy to walk to everything in town.

  • Rock Creek Campground
  • Siuslaw National Forest, Yachats OR
  • east of the highway, by farther than I thought! No hint of the ocean nearby, just the peaceful babbling creek and the mid-growth coastal redwoods. Site 12 is super-sweet as long as no one takes site 11. Those people will cut into my buzz :)