Welcome to Laughlin, Nevada – One of the lowest-lying communities in Nevada Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area sits on the Colorado River across from Bullhead City, Arizona. The campground has 24 sites with full hook-ups and is first come first serve. We love this campground. Campground: Big
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Wine Ridge RV Resort – Pahrump, Nevada
On to Pahrump! Pahrump is a town of close to 40,000 people in Nevada close to the California border. It is about 60 miles west of Las Vegas and sits in the Mojave Desert. A bit of trivia is that Pahrump was the location of the 1996 movie “Mars Attacks”
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We departed Goldfield and drove south to Beatty, Nevada which is the gateway to Death Valley (but yet 20 degrees cooler). Beatty is located just 7 miles east of the border of Death Valley National Park and about 100 miles north of Las Vegas. It is advertised to have 108
Continue readingClarks Custom Camp – Goldfield, Nevada
We departed Walker Lake and headed through Hawthorne and on through the empty desert via Tonopah with our final destination being Goldfield. Hawthorne is the home to a very large Army ammo depot (“they” say the world’s largest) and you can see the bunkers throughout the country side. There are
Continue readingWalker Lake Recreation Area – Hawthorne, Nevada
Walker Lake Recreation Area is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed recreation area which offers camping, boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking, and wildlife viewing. Walker Lake is about 12 miles by 5 miles and is located just north of Hawthorne. Sportsman’s Beach has 34 campsites with cabanas, picnic tables, and
Continue readingShamrock RV Park – Reno, Nevada
We departed McCloud, California and headed towards Reno, Nevada through Lassen National Forest, along Highway 89 past Lake Britton. It was a beautiful drive through the forest with the autumn leaves starting to peak. We continued on to Highway 44 east to Susanville past areas where several bad wildfires were
Continue readingMcCloud RV Resort – McCloud, California
We departed Seven Feathers RV Resort in Canyonville, Oregon on a cloudy, misty, rainy day to head south on I-5. By the time we crossed into California we started seeing blues skies and the rain had stopped. It wasn’t long before Mt Shasta came into view. Then we passed a
Continue readingSeven Feathers RV Resort – Canyonville, Oregon
The drive from Cape Blanco State Park over the hills to I-5 was a beautiful drive with great weather. It was a bit slow going due to the nature of the road (highway 42) but it was still a beautiful drive. We made it over to I-5 and headed south
Continue readingCape Blanco State Park – Port Orford, Oregon
On our way from Newport to Cape Blanco we passed through Bandon, a cute little coastal town which is the center of cranberry production for the area. Most of the cranberries had been harvested already but we managed to see one field where they were working away. The Bullards Beach
Continue readingCoos Bay, Oregon – Out and About
Coos Bay (previously known as Marshfield) has a history with lumber and shipbuilding and is the largest city on the Oregon coast with a population of over 16,000. There are a variety of activities and state parks in the area that kept us busy for days and days! Coos City
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