#Reeder beach rv park full#

#Reeder beach rv park full#

That little blue card has saved us more than once in full parks at the last minute.Īrriving at Champoeg, we saw the dreaded “Campground Full” sign, but continued in, hoping for a cancellation or an ADA site. We found Champoeg (pronounced Shampooey) State Park on the map and headed east, hoping for an opening, or at least a spot in a handicap site. This kind lady pointed me to the nearby state park suggesting they might have an opening on a rainy, out of season, Monday night. I started calling around, and after a few parks with no openings, found one for 80 bucks a night, with this caveat, “Oh, by the way, we have some construction going on but the framers don’t get loud until after 9am.”. I would expect that an RVr who has traveled for any length of time has had a similar experience. It seems we somehow made a reservation in Dayton, Nevada instead of Dayton, Oregon. Finally in the small print somewhere I found the phone number of the RV park and called.Ī sweet lady answered the phone and gladly offered the address, yada yada yada…Dayton, Nevada. I dug out the reservation papers, which also had no address for the park, then went to the park website and discovered that there was no address listed there either.

Searching Google again for the actual address of the park, I was redirected to several other RV parks, but no Dayton RV Park. We breathed a sigh of relief as we entered the actual valley toward the community of Dayton and our reservations at the Dayton RV Park. Looking south toward Dayton from the hills Somehow I had no clue that the Willamette VALLEY had steep curvy snowy mountains here and there on the perimeter. And no, I don’t have a single photo of this experience. In one short section, within a distance of no more than 2 miles, we saw 4 newish SUV-type vehicles smashed into trees and telephone poles, some appeared to be climbing the poles. We kept on going, and climbed a narrow road into some steep hills (which felt like mountains) to an elevation of 2,000 feet or so, with fairly deep snow on either side of the road. Eighteen Percent?!! I think the steepest sign we have ever seen was 16 percent on the road into Calistoga in California. All was well until we saw a sign for an 18 percent grade ahead. The alternate route I chose seemed to be a bit less curvy and hopefully, we could navigate a way to Dayton that would be a bit less challenging. Google is notorious for sometimes routing over impassable roads, and when I saw an extremely curvy road on the projected route I said, “No No! Keep going straight, that road is too curvy”. We were aghast at the wall-to-wall row houses and apartments that seemed to extend for miles around Hillsboro and Aloha on the western perimeter of the city of Portland. We crossed Highway 26, the main route to the coast from the city. The density of housing in parts of Aloha is surprising Even though Mo was driving, the roads required navigating to the extent that I didn’t have the opportunity to open the phone camera for photos. I checked the webcams, read the Facebook Group for Cornelius Pass, and declared that we could take that route and avoid returning south via Highway 30 and Interstate 5. Google suggested route from Bayport to Dayton When the morning arrived for our departure from Bayport RV Park on Scappoose Bay in Warren, Oregon, the skies were threatening, but there was no snow predicted for the route we chose.Ĭornelius Pass is a decent route that passes by the main urban area of Portland to the west, crossing a low mountain as it approaches Highway 26 and continues south toward the upper portion of the Willamette Valley where we planned to spend two days in Dayton.