PerĪ plaque, we learned that the area was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the greatest programs EVER, one that shows why the government is more than just passing laws and rubber stamping what corporations want. Stabilized and locked up on the camping trailer, we started walking around the mostly empty campground to get our bearings. She has to stay on the leash at all times, no only because it's the rule, but also because she is so freaked out she might run. Lucy freaks out for the first hour when we arrive anywhere, and so we go on a hike as soon as we can. Stabilized it, I got Lucinda out of the car and took her on a very short Stefan backed in the square drop into our reserved spot, unhooked it and, as he North Fork of the Trask River, and the sound of that river drowns out any conversations from adjacent campgrounds - not that the other campers were loud at all. With just a few steps, you can look over the It's right by a little parking area for day use, which no one used. Were in A7, the first campsite on the right as you enter, and it was perfect. I'll get into which those are, and how to stretch your options for camping, later in this review. The web site apparently allows you to reserve just four sites, through a few more are available for one night. We slowly realized it was going to stay mostly empty because the campground wasn't fully booked after all, as the web site had shown instead, most of the campground is closed for the winter. The reviews of the campground were also not so great - lots about how loud other campers were, particularly out in the big common area.Ĭampground at about 4 in the afternoon on a Friday and were surprised that it was mostly empty, with justįour other campers in three other campsites occupied. I booked it but I was dreading it: from the online map on the county's, it looked like the campground was fully booked, and this last available site looked like it was right next to the road. We had never seen the campground - it's not on a road either of us have ever been on, which is surprising, because we have explored so much of this area by motorcycle. Stefan asked me to book the only available site at Trask River County Campground in Tillamook County ( easy County campgrounds in Oregon can be quite nice, but they vary hugely in quality - some have bathrooms with flushing toilets and showers, some have just pit toilets, and some can be overrun with locals in RVs, running their generators all night with kids on bicycles everywhere or running through your campsite. So we starting looking at county campsites relatively close by to where we live. Plus, we needed something relatively close to home and on a paved, two-lane road. That's not at all good for my mental state.īut camping in Oregon is a challenge - it was before the pandemic, but now it's even worse: state park campgrounds are fully booked nine months in advance, and just-show-up campgrounds often fill up by 3 p.m. The Alsea River and the Oregon Coast in 2021). We wanted to take Stefan's new, custom-built "square drop" camper on its maiden voyage, camping in it for the first time, and I was desperate to go camping - I had been on just ONE short trip since the start of the pandemic ( along Review of Trask River County Campground, Tillamook County, Oregon, March 2022 Review of Trask River County Campground,
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