Newport, Oregon

IdaD wrote:
Thanks for all the tips, guys. The others want full hook ups so I think we'll shoot for the Port park. Not generally my idea of camping but being next to the brewery will make it tolerable. Rogue makes some pretty good brews.

How long are you planing on staying? South Beach SP is just south of the bridge. True no full hookups,but a great park, with a dump station.

We stayed in South Beach State Park a year or so ago. As I recall we had water and electric hook-up at site, but no sewer. It is a very large park with multiple loops. Only small negative I remember is the fact that there was only one dump station for a very large number of sites. Still, we had no problem when leaving.

IdaD wrote:
Rogue makes some pretty good brews.

Dead Guy Ale is my favorite....along with their Kobe cheese burger!

Ron

lanerd wrote:

IdaD wrote:
Rogue makes some pretty good brews.

Dead Guy Ale is my favorite....along with their Kobe cheese burger!

Ron

They also have a distillery and make a Dead Guy Whiskey. :)

rhagfo wrote:

lanerd wrote:

IdaD wrote:
Rogue makes some pretty good brews.

Dead Guy Ale is my favorite....along with their Kobe cheese burger!

Ron

They also have a distillery and make a Dead Guy Whiskey. :)

Yeah, we did the tour last year. Very interesting.

FWIW, my wife and I stayed at the Whalers Rest TT campground. The only good thing we can say about it is that the membership fee was free. We called ahead, made a reservation, told them what we had, size, etc. Book reservation. Arrived early afternoon, told them we had a reservation then asked about site number. Gate "guard" told us "just drive around till you find something". So we did. Sites are jammed together, power connections about to fall over. Site we ended up in had dog poop all over it (general condition of CG was poorly kept up. Kids played area looked like an accident waiting to happen. "Store" and "community" center were rarely open. Never did see anyone from the CG going around cleaning things up. I am not a Thousand Trail fan, but was really disappointed in this place, so much that we cut our stay short after 1 night. There are lots of other campgrounds around the area, especially the State Parks which are much better and much cleaner. The whole Oregon coast thing is hard to get sites lately and you really have to book ahead. You may get lucky just pulling into one and find a site for a 1 or 2 day stay that is not continuously booked. We are getting a new MH now and again, we get the free TT 1 year membership. Not sure if or how much we will use it again.

We only stayed 2 days as we were on the move but we enjoyed and would stay at the Marina RV Park at The Port of Newport again when in the area.

Our Trip Report

Did you try the 3 group camps at Beverly Beach??

Ed C wrote:
Pacific Shores is about 3 miles south of Beverly Beach and is beautiful! It's a little pricey but nice

P.S. is motor homes only!!

Don't expect any CGS to be available in August on the Central OR coast this year. The expected eclipse center line will be just north of Newport on Aug. 21!! To the best of my knowledge all cgs have been booked solid for that time period.

X 2 on this one.

We were not set up more than 5 minutes when we get greeted by the camp host with a handful of brochures, coupons, bus schedule & a wealth of info.