Oregon trip

garyhaupt wrote:
Just tossing this out...I know it wasn't the question...in your planning, if you go from north to south, you will not regret that. That direction of travel will enable you to leave the highway to oohh and awww and then pull back into traffic withput risking life/limb. Going south to north is just plain dangerous, for the mentioned reasons. Even other RV'rs accelerate to try and get ahead of an RV driver trying to get across two/3/4 lanes of traffic.


Gary Haupt

I agree completely with Gary. Same if your going on 1/101 in California. Much easier access to turnouts.

rhagfo wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
We drove up the entire state on 101 the day they were closing all the parks, view points and state line. Now that was some weird. Left Brookings about 7am and until then, hadn't spent much time with the radio on. We were kind of dumb-founded. As we drove along...no traffic...no people...and we could see the barriers going up, the tape being run from post to post. It was like they were closing the doors, behind us. With zero traffic and cities so quiet, we decided it might be in our best interests to boogie straight thru. We drove over the Astoria Bridge about 7? so..a 12 hour drive..a drive that usually takes us days. We pitched up at the Dismal Nitch rest area for the night and as we drove out at 9am, Washington Highways was closing THAT. Just a really weird drive. In fact..now that I am remembering, we drove thru Seattle that day about 2pm..and never took it out of cruise.


Gary Haupt

GARY, didn’t see you wave or hear you honk as you passed Beachside SP, just south of Waldport!

You didn't? Darn..and I was on the radio yelping for you and everything.

Gary

garyhaupt wrote:
We drove up the entire state on 101 the day they were closing all the parks, view points and state line. Now that was some weird. Left Brookings about 7am and until then, hadn't spent much time with the radio on. We were kind of dumb-founded. As we drove along...no traffic...no people...and we could see the barriers going up, the tape being run from post to post. It was like they were closing the doors, behind us. With zero traffic and cities so quiet, we decided it might be in our best interests to boogie straight thru. We drove over the Astoria Bridge about 7? so..a 12 hour drive..a drive that usually takes us days. We pitched up at the Dismal Nitch rest area for the night and as we drove out at 9am, Washington Highways was closing THAT. Just a really weird drive. In fact..now that I am remembering, we drove thru Seattle that day about 2pm..and never took it out of cruise.


Gary Haupt

GARY, didn’t see you wave or hear you honk as you passed Beachside SP, just south of Waldport!

We drove up the entire state on 101 the day they were closing all the parks, view points and state line. Now that was some weird. Left Brookings about 7am and until then, hadn't spent much time with the radio on. We were kind of dumb-founded. As we drove along...no traffic...no people...and we could see the barriers going up, the tape being run from post to post. It was like they were closing the doors, behind us. With zero traffic and cities so quiet, we decided it might be in our best interests to boogie straight thru. We drove over the Astoria Bridge about 7? so..a 12 hour drive..a drive that usually takes us days. We pitched up at the Dismal Nitch rest area for the night and as we drove out at 9am, Washington Highways was closing THAT. Just a really weird drive. In fact..now that I am remembering, we drove thru Seattle that day about 2pm..and never took it out of cruise.


Gary Haupt

Curly2001 wrote:
The Oregon coast is supposed to open up some of the campgrounds tomorrow.
Curly

Sorry have not heard that from Rangers.

OPRD has opened some of the day use parks south of Newport, those north of Newport are still closed, but may open soon.
Camping not likely to open until sometime in June currently.

OPRD WEB Site

I saw some Oregon Forest Service campgrounds open in Deschutes NF today on my work travels to Central Oregon. KEN

The Oregon coast is supposed to open up some of the campgrounds tomorrow.
Curly

ORbiker wrote:

Skipg wrote:
We will be on the Oregon coast June,July, and August. Is it necessary to have some sort of dehumidifier to reduce the moisture in our RV. Thanks

You will need campground reservations IF they ever open. KEN

Just stayed in Oregon a couple weeks ago. Campground was full.

Just tossing this out...I know it wasn't the question...in your planning, if you go from north to south, you will not regret that. That direction of travel will enable you to leave the highway to oohh and awww and then pull back into traffic withput risking life/limb. Going south to north is just plain dangerous, for the mentioned reasons. Even other RV'rs accelerate to try and get ahead of an RV driver trying to get across two/3/4 lanes of traffic.


Gary Haupt

I'd say it depends. Oct-early may our trips to the coast mean including the dehumidifier. Summer, occasionally it is needed. My advice, Many of the places you are likely to camp near will have a Fred Meyer, Lowes, Home depot nearby. You could just wait and see what the weather is like and if you decide you need one, stop in a get a small compressor driven dehumidifier around $100. When it is humid ours will pull about 5 gallons out the first 12ish hours, then drop down to 1-2 gallons/day.