White River West Sno-Park is one of many “Sno-Parks” in Oregon. These are effectively parking lots, or roadside parking areas, where people can park their vehicles and enjoy time playing in the snow. Sno-Parks are operated by the U.S. Forest Service and many of them are kept closed during the warmer months. However, there...
Memaloose State Park Campground is located on the Columbia River Gorge, about halfway between Portland and The Dalles, along I-84. It’s perhaps one of Oregon’s busiest state campgrounds. I arrived Sunday, September 2, 2018, on a Labor Day Weekend. I was fortunate to find the last remaining campsite, for just this night, on the...
Fishtrap Recreation Area is a built around Fishtrap Lake, located in eastern Washington State, about a few miles north east of Sprague. The Recreation Area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. While there aren’t any dedicated campgrounds at Fishtrap, with the exception of a lone private RV park, the entire Recreation Area...
Homestake Pass refers to a 6,300+ foot mountain pass along I-90 about 10 miles east of Butte, Montana. Right at the pass itself is Homestake Rd, which leads you past Homestake Lake, and finally Homestake Pass Campground. The campground itself, which I refer to as the “Front” campground, lies at 45.926345, -112.405241. The campground...
About 12 miles of Bismarck, North Dakota, along the I-94, is a small lake that seems insignificant enough for a state so out of the way for most Americans, but yet offers some great RV boondocking that all RVers should pin on their map. Sweet Briar Lake is operated by Morton County’s Department of...
Big Rock Campground is owned and operated by the County of Kane, Illinois, as part of their Forest Preserve District. Opened in 2013, it’s the county’s newest campground. They also operate Paul Wolff Campground to the north. Sash and I came here on Monday, August 13, after leaving the 2018 ATC Toy Hauler rally...
I dropped Sash off at O’Hare International Airport last Friday (today’s Sunday). She’s in Anchorage, AK by now, visiting clients there. I’ll be on my own for three weeks. By then, I will pick up her at the airport in Portland, OR. I’ll be towing the trailer through Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana,...
The 1st Annual ATC Toy Hauler Rally was held in Bremen, Indiana, from August 9-11, 2018. Turns out, it was a huge success, on many levels. The rally was located in Pla-Mor Campground, which is about a few miles outside of Nappanee, the headquarters for ATC (Aluminum Trailer Company). ATC paid for the campground,...
Riverside Casino & Golf Resort is located in Riverside, Iowa, about 12 miles south of Iowa City. Probably the best thing about it for RVers is that it has no policy on overnight camping in its parking lot. Sash and I parked our toy hauler there for 16 nights, and wasn’t bothered by casino...
Late afternoon winds finally picked up, bringing with it a 15-degree (F) temperature drop from the low-90s that had lingered for much of the day. A dark grey loomed to the west. The smell of rain could just barely be detected following behind the flocks of ducks pushing east towards Nebraska. Our trailer sat...