Buffalo, NY to Seattle and back suggestions
Hello! You all give great advice so I thought to ask for this years summer trip. We have 6 weeks traveling in a 35 foot travel trailer with two teenage daughters, a cat and dog. Every summer we trav...
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A good stopover for a night or two in Western Montana: Jim & Mary’s Campground in Missoula. Very clean. Lots of good, long pull throughs. Very clean, functional Laundromat plus beautiful flower displays throughout park. On the West edge of Missoula at the turnoff to Kalispell right off I-90. We always stay there to rest up when heading east or west.
Campgrounds on US-12 in the heart of Mts. Rainier/Adams/St. Helens: my advice is google Campgrounds in and around Randle and Packwood, WA. We stay at Maple Grove Campground in Randle, but we are KM members...you might give them a call and see what they say. Maple Grove RV Pk is a clean, centrally located campground to those 3 mountains. You need 4-5 days in this vicinity to do it justice.
Some excellent WA State Pks east of the Cascades, google: Riverside SP in Spokane, Sun Lakes SP near Coulee City, Lake Chelan SP, Pearrygin Lake SP near Winthrop, Confluence SP and Lincoln Rock SP which are each in/near Wenatchee. West of the Cascades and north of Seattle and on Whodbey Island: Deception Pass SP, Ft. Ebey SP, Ft. Casey SP. Camano Island SP on Camano Island which is next to Whidbey Is. On the Olympic Peninsula a short ferry ride away and at or near Pt. Townsend, WA: Ft. Worden SP and Ft. Flagler SP. Arriving in Pt. Townsend gets you on the route to Hurricane Ridge and rest of Olympic NP. This Peninsula is worth a good week all by itself.
You gave your destination as Seattle. No doubt you will want to visit it to be to say, “We’ve been there”, but I recommend you plan way more time seeing nature away from the congested I-5 corridor, which is roughly the 100 mile stretch from Olympia to Smokey Point north of Everett. You will waste lots of time in LA-style traffic.
I am a teacher (retired) who loves to research also. The above will get you started on your planning of this trip to the NW corner of the USA. You will no doubt get lots more info from others along your route. I envy you as I find that the Anticipatory Stage of a trip can be more fun than the Participatory Stage of a trip. You’re planning a humongous trip with smalll sample bites along the way...you will find plenty of places you want to return to after you retire. Have fun.
Campgrounds on US-12 in the heart of Mts. Rainier/Adams/St. Helens: my advice is google Campgrounds in and around Randle and Packwood, WA. We stay at Maple Grove Campground in Randle, but we are KM members...you might give them a call and see what they say. Maple Grove RV Pk is a clean, centrally located campground to those 3 mountains. You need 4-5 days in this vicinity to do it justice.
Some excellent WA State Pks east of the Cascades, google: Riverside SP in Spokane, Sun Lakes SP near Coulee City, Lake Chelan SP, Pearrygin Lake SP near Winthrop, Confluence SP and Lincoln Rock SP which are each in/near Wenatchee. West of the Cascades and north of Seattle and on Whodbey Island: Deception Pass SP, Ft. Ebey SP, Ft. Casey SP. Camano Island SP on Camano Island which is next to Whidbey Is. On the Olympic Peninsula a short ferry ride away and at or near Pt. Townsend, WA: Ft. Worden SP and Ft. Flagler SP. Arriving in Pt. Townsend gets you on the route to Hurricane Ridge and rest of Olympic NP. This Peninsula is worth a good week all by itself.
You gave your destination as Seattle. No doubt you will want to visit it to be to say, “We’ve been there”, but I recommend you plan way more time seeing nature away from the congested I-5 corridor, which is roughly the 100 mile stretch from Olympia to Smokey Point north of Everett. You will waste lots of time in LA-style traffic.
I am a teacher (retired) who loves to research also. The above will get you started on your planning of this trip to the NW corner of the USA. You will no doubt get lots more info from others along your route. I envy you as I find that the Anticipatory Stage of a trip can be more fun than the Participatory Stage of a trip. You’re planning a humongous trip with smalll sample bites along the way...you will find plenty of places you want to return to after you retire. Have fun.
