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Florence Keller Regional Park
Crescent City, CA
2207 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Drove through, walked about, decided not to stay"
Sites are very tight indeed. If you are a #VanLife person or have a very short trailer or motor home, you can probably make it work. Sites here with no hookups are $15. There's one site, #14, which has full hookups with 30 amp service for $20. ...
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Jedediah Smith Campground
Crescent City, CA
2208 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Fantastic camping experinece at Jedediah Smith / Redwoods NP"
This is a wonderful campground, though it has zero hookups. Don't count on making much solar power here either, unless you get lucky enough to camp in one of the few small sites along the river and hit a sunny day. As others have noted, the roads...
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Ameri-Can Trails 55+ RV Park
Quartzsite, AZ
2350 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Clean quiet convenient RV park in Quartzsite."
We've been on the road since Labor Day, and are finally heading back to Seattle. At this point it's mostly about the miles, so we were happy to find a convenient place to stop for the night. This RV park, like most in the middle of a desert, has...
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Trail of Tears State Park
Jackson, MO
2419 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Nice campground on the bank of the Mississippi River"
Reserved and camped in Site 9, with full hookups. Arrival was easy, though the sites are numbered a bit confusingly. We started backing into site #8 by mistake until the host gave a an encouraging shout, causing us to pull forward and then back...
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Gateway RV Park
Carbondale, CO
2422 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Nice though road-noisy camping on the Rio Grande bike trail from Aspen to Glenwood Springs"
This is a city-owned campground just outside Carbondale, CO, right on route 82, which runs from Glenwood Springs through Carbondale, to Aspen. The campground itself is great. They have generous gravel, some trees, and some grass. They also have...
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Wanapum Campground
Vantage, WA
2569 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Camping on the western shore of the Columbia River"
This is a great little campground! Of the two loops, sites 1-31 have more trees around them, though both loops have plenty of open space for playing Frisbee, playing tag, tossing footballs, etc. While this state park / recreation area is on the...
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Fort Stevens State Park
Hammond, OR
2801 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Wonderful, though huge, campground, lots of activities"
Our particular site is quite close to the rest rooms and showers, but that turned out to be a good thing. Also, the main walking path to the rest rooms goes right by our site. Another good thing, as it happens, because that meant nobody was...
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Ike Kinswa State Park
Silver Creek, WA
2886 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Very nice campground on Mayfield Lake (Reservoir)"
We like this campground a lot and recommend you come for a visit! It's on a spit of land that sticks out into the lake. Lots of trees, spacious sites. Some pull-thru, some back-in. There are even a few cabins and primitive walk-in sites, so...
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Dungeness Recreation Area
Sequim, WA
3213 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Fantastic campground in Dungeness, though no hookups"
Spent two lovely nights here at the Dungeness Recreation Area. It's a great campground with plenty of trees and shade, though a few spots are open with lots of sun, if you prefer that. Sites are comfortable and reasonably spacious.
No hookups...
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Quarry Pond Campground
Oak Harbor, WA
3235 days ago
Casa Rocinante 22 reviews
"Wonderful park and campground, indelibly marred by extreme jet fighter noise"
This is a beautiful state park, right at the northern tip of Whidbey Island. The campground here is wonderful.
Everything about this place says, "Camp here!" That is, until the EA-18G Growlers from nearby Whidbey Island Naval Air Station...
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Whitewater Township Park Campground
Williamsburg, MI
"Peaceful average campground on a nasty dirt road."
The RV Resort at Carolina Crossroads
Roanoke Rapids, NC
"Very nice campground great for one or several nights."
Jedediah Smith Campground
Crescent City, CA
"Fantastic camping experinece at Jedediah Smith / Redwoods NP"
Gateway RV Park
Carbondale, CO
"Nice though road-noisy camping on the Rio Grande bike trail from Aspen to Glenwood Springs"
Quarry Pond Campground
Oak Harbor, WA
"Wonderful park and campground, indelibly marred by extreme jet fighter noise"
Rasar State Park
Concrete, WA
"Pleasant, well-shaded campground with large sites near the Skagit River"
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Whidbey Island Deception Pass
You may be wondering...what exactly did we grab at the last possible minute? Deception Pass State Park, after all, has a pretty big and very popular campground. Not an easy place to get into, given ...
Lake Crescent August 2015
In addition to camping, Log Cabin Resort has a nice collection of human-powered watercraft for rent. The list includes canoes, kayaks, pedal boats, and hydrobikes. The bike looks completely silly. It...
Salt Creek Rec Area 08-2015
Watching the wildlife This was our third visit to Salt Creek Recreation area, which should be some indication of how much we like the place. Each time we manage to see something new and different whi...
Nehalem Bay State Park 2015-09
On this trip we suddenly discovered we've become kite nerds. Over the past many years, we've periodically bought and then lost one cool kite after another. While cleaning out the house in recent month...
Champoeg State Park 09-2015
Pronounced Sham-POO-ee We found this park, south of Portland, OR, because friends were camping there to participate in a half-marathon event. It's actually very nice indeed, on the banks of the Willa...
Seaquest State Park WA 09-2015
Near Castle Rock, WA To begin another fun, fabulous six nights seven days of camping, we decided to stop off and spend a couple of nights at Castle Rock, WA, the gateway to Mount St. Helens. This wou...
Dungeness & Salt Creek July 2015
Stuff to do while camped at Salt CreekThere are lots of opportunities for walking around this park on the various trails. There is also a fun and mysterious WWII bunker that's worthy of exploration. ...
Dungeness & Salt Creek July 2015
Stuff to do while camped at Salt CreekThere are lots of opportunities for walking around this park on the various trails. There is also a fun and mysterious WWII bunker that's worthy of exploration. ...
Whidbey Island Deception Pass
Fort Casey State Park is another interesting location on Whidbey Island. It's a much larger WWII gunnery emplacement which has since been converted into a state park. The old fortress structures and...
Whidbey Island Deception Pass
Fort Casey State Park is another interesting location on Whidbey Island. It's a much larger WWII gunnery emplacement which has since been converted into a state park. The old fortress structures and...
Whidbey Island Deception Pass
Fort Casey State Park is another interesting location on Whidbey Island. It's a much larger WWII gunnery emplacement which has since been converted into a state park. The old fortress structures and...
The Leap for Home 04-2015
MIssoula, MT 04/19 Having successfully escaped the grasp of that spring snowstorm, we were on a roll and determined to get home. So our travel days grew longer and our stops shorter. The distance f...
The Leap for Home 04-2015
MIssoula, MT 04/19 Having successfully escaped the grasp of that spring snowstorm, we were on a roll and determined to get home. So our travel days grew longer and our stops shorter. The distance f...
Billings MT KOA
America's first KOA We had some time to make up after being stuck in Denver for a few days, so we took the opportunity of better conditions to make up a bit of time. This is a theme that will continu...
Escape from Denver 4/17
Escape from Denver! So, Friday morning, we cancelled our plans to stay in Golden and started driving north. We figured we'd stop whenever the weather dictated, otherwise aiming for the KOA in Dougla...
Snowed in! Denver, CO
Here are two road condition resources we began to reference:* Colorado road conditions - which you can see in the picture here. Those blue and red roads? Not good! * Wyoming road conditions - for whi...
KC East KOA and Wilson SP
Kansas City East KOA, April 12th We arrived at this KOA in Oak Grove, MO, late in the afternoon after a long, though happily uneventful, day of driving. The KOA is just off I-70, close enough to hea...
Carlyle, IL 04-2015
Lost (temporarily) in translation After a lunch that couldn't be beat, we headed north from Evansville with Rocinante. Our chosen target was a Core of Engineers (COE) campground at the south end of C...
Hard Labor Creek & Lookout Mountain
Hard Labor Creek State Park, Rutledge, GA Our first stop, per our discovery via the All Stays app, was to be at this interesting state park in Georgia. It's a great campground, though slightly rustic...
Hard Labor Creek & Lookout Mountain
Hard Labor Creek State Park, Rutledge, GA Our first stop, per our discovery via the All Stays app, was to be at this interesting state park in Georgia. It's a great campground, though slightly rustic...
Charleston, SC and Colleton SP
Colleton State Park Located in Walterboro, about 50 miles east of Charleston, Colleton is a nice little state park in the low country on the Edisto, a blackwater river. If you're feeling adventurous,...
Blythe Island, Brunswick, GA
Historic Jekyll Jekyll Island started out as a ridiculously exclusive club for the richest people in America. The island was purchased, and then the Jekyl Island club was built, drawing some of the m...
Orlando and Kissimmee, FL
After nearly a month on the road with Rocinante, we made it to our initial destination - Orlando, FL, where our son works at Sea World as an Educator.The biggest challenge for our visit was to actually...
Lake City, FL
Quick stop - no niceties Between Henderson Beach State Park and Orlando, we needed a quick and hopefully pleasant place to stop for the night. We got the first, not so much of the latter, at Casey Jo...
Henderson Beach State Park
State park full of wonderful After working our way across New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana via a series of private RV parks, we were overjoyed to get a last-minute reservation at Henderson Beach State...
Lafayette, LA 03-2015
Dinner and Zydeco at Randol's GIven we arrived on a Sunday night, we had to think fast if we were going to get a genuine Cajun meal. The front desk at our campground suggested Randol's, since the pla...
Robertsdale, AL - Azalea Acres RV Park
Halfway between Houston & Lafayette Bottom line, we needed a place to rest our heads, as it was too far to drive all the way between Houston and Lafayette in a single day. So, we stopped at an RV par...
Houston, TX 03-2015
This road toll's for thee We had very wet, though otherwise uneventful, drive from San Antonio to West Houston, where we had planned to say for the night. However, we arrived much earlier in the day...
San Antonio, TX 03-2015
As we mentioned earlier, the winds of New Mexico had thoughtfully removed the antenna from our wireless rear-view camera. This made driving a little unnerving, as people could now hide in our blind sp...
Junction, TX 03-2015
North Llano River RV Park After a long, dry and relatively relaxing day of driving across East Texas, we arrived in Junction and headed to our destination for the day, the North Llano River RV Park. ...
Fort Stockton, TX
NM 720, Black River Village Road Upon exiting Carlsbad Caverns National Park, we turned north on US Highway 62, towards Carlsbad in a vigorous rainstorm with a chill wind and the idea of quickly conne...
Guadalupe Mountains and Carlsbad, NM
Carlsbad RV Park After a long and interesting day of driving, we stopped for the night at this RV Park, which proved to be interesting. Campgrounds are few and far between as you get closer to Carlsb...
Las Cruces, NM, 03/2015
While driving from Tucson to Las Cruces, we faced some of the strongest headwinds we've seen to date. One might say Rocinante broke wind in huge quantities. Our average gas mileage fell by nearly two...
Tucson, AZ, and Pi Day
Picacho, we choose you! As we drove south of Phoenix on our way to Tucson, we drove past an interesting mountain peak, which was clearly visible from the highway. Picacho Peak State Park - obviously...
Phoenix and Lake Pleasant AZ
Sunset and evening star We had a lovely evening at Lake Pleasant, with a spectacular sunset and a short walk along a path by the Visitor Center. The latter is a nice path clearly marked to tall you w...
Joshua Tree NP 03 2015
Grumpy Reviewers? As an FYI, a few of the grumpier reviews of Black Rock will cast various multiple aspersions, but we decided it's because they want to keep it for themselves. The reviews on Trip Adv...
Cloverdale, Chowchilla, Mojave
We stopped in Ukiah, as planned, to visit with the AAA folks and came out with a more organized plan for our trip from there to Orlando. Step one was to either head north a bit to Route 20 and work ou...
Cloverdale, Chowchilla, Mojave
We stopped in Ukiah, as planned, to visit with the AAA folks and came out with a more organized plan for our trip from there to Orlando. Step one was to either head north a bit to Route 20 and work ou...
Oregon and NorCal Coast 03-2015
Sunday, March 1st Sunday 3/1 was a big mileage day, considering our route. We started early, having hitched up the night before in Cannon Beach. Found a lovely Oregon State park at Beverly Beach and...
Sunny Saturday in Cannon Beach
Bluebirds, breakfast, and walks on the beach We got a bluebird today - a beautiful sunny day in Cannon Beach, OR. The morning started out cool and clear, with lots of promise for the coming afternoon...
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