In early June 2023 we took a trip down to Portland for the NASCAR Xfinity race held here. We took our travel trailer down and stayed trackside from Thursday, and left Sunday morning. The Xfinity series ran Saturday afternoon, and an semi-pro Miata series and Arca West ran on Friday. The race was good and …
Cape Disappointment State Park
This trip was over Thanksgiving Weekend 2022. We went to Cape Disappointment State Park, on the Long Beach Peninsula of Washington, located about 10 minutes outside of Illwaco, Washington, half hour out of Astoria, Oregon, and about hour and a half out of Portland, Oregon. We enjoyed staying here, and would come again. Only downside …
Fort Townsend State Park
This trip was over Labor Day weekend 2022. This park is located on the back side of Port Townsend Bay, about ten minutes from Port Townsend, Washington. This is a great park to stay at if looking at staying near Port Townsend. Its a smaller campground, but is great if Fort Worden or Fort Flaggler …
Mossyrock Park
This trip took place in May, 2022. I took a week off work and came out here for a stay. I had an okay site out in the Smores loop. It was unlevel for my truck camper, so it took some leveling of the truck, and did not have a lot of privacy. The unlevel …
Seaquest State Park – July 2022
This trip to Seaquest State Park, we did it over Fourth of July weekend 2022. We decided to book a different site this time that was a lot more level than our last site in 2021. The problem with it though is that you are staked in pretty close, and we were right across from …
Lake Quinault
This trip was took place during the last weekend of April 2022. A long almost three hour drive down there on a rainy Friday night, we set up camp at Wilaby Campground. At this point raining hard and it being pitch black (we showed up right past twilight, about 9 pm), we set up the …
Millersilvania State Park – January, 2022
This trip was to Millersilvania State Park south of Olympia, Washington. We have stayed here before in June of 2020 and years prior (2008 area, can’t remember exact time). The last two trips was rainy the whole weekend, both times staying in a tent. This time we took the camper, and of course it was …
Ike Kinswa State Park
This trip was over Thanksgiving weekend 2021 down to Ike Kinswa State Park near Mossyrock, Washington. The weekend was a little rainy, but that was expected for Washington in November. The state park is maintained decently, but can be confusing to get into. The day use, boat launch, and campground all have separate entrances in …
Lake Sylvia State Park
This trip was to Lake Sylvia State Park just outside Montesano, Washington. This is a park that dates back over a century, as it use to be an old logging camp. The logging camp built a dam that created Lake Sylvia, which for a time provided power to Montesano and that logging camp. That camp …
Fort Flagler State Park (2021 Version)
This was a mid-August trip to Fort Flagler State Park. There is another post from 2019 from when we tent camped here. This trip we took our truck camper up and stayed in the RV loop down near the beach. We come here fairly often and always enjoy our time here. The tent loop is …