Farewell Bend State Recreation Area

It was easy to find this park. It was pretty much isolated with nearest store was 40 miles away. Check in was easy. It was very windy during our stay at Farewell Bend S.P. When the wind would slow down, mosquitoes were everywhere and hungry! We stayed in Brownlee Loop and didn’t have hardly any Verizon Signal. The park was kept clean and maintained; however, I never used their bathroom facilities so I don’t know about these. I wouldn’t give a bad review for weather or bugs (they usually go along camping). The 2-star review is for the dump station that was the worst one my husband has EVER used (his words). “It was designed to fail.” Happily, he was able to finish the job without any problems, but it was really obvious that others had had problems!

It was easy to find this park. It was pretty much isolated with nearest store was 40 miles away. Check in was easy. It was very windy during our stay at Farewell Bend S.P. When the wind would slow down, mosquitoes were everywhere and hungry! We stayed in Brownlee Loop and didn’t have hardly any Verizon Signal. The park was kept clean and maintained; however, I never used their bathroom facilities so I don’t know about these. I wouldn’t give a bad review for weather or bugs (they usually go along camping). The 2-star review is for the dump station that was the worst one my husband has EVER used (his words). “It was designed to fail.” Happily, he was able to finish the job without any problems, but it was really obvious that others had had problems!

We intended to only stay for a night but liked it so much we stayed an additional night. We camped in the Catfish loop, site 119 as the antelope loop was not open for the season. The site was level and easily accommodated our 42 ft 5th wheel. It’s a partial hookup site with W/E inlay (30 amp). There is a walking path from several of the sites, including 119, to the river. We had limited cel service with ATT and Verizon even with a booster, but that wasn’t a deterrent. Note: we drove around to select our site and then used the self pay kiosk. There is firewood for purchase at the camp host site Self pay as well. Also there is some distant train noise but not horrible

Pretty big park with a lot of facilities. I stopped in to top off my water and empty my holding tanks before heading into more remote territory. Pretty quiet in the off-season, so I decided to stay the night and take advantage of their hot showers and nice big lawns to play fetch with my pup. $20/night for dry camping. 14 day limit. Good Verizon signal.

As hard as they tried, it seemed park staff could not keep enough water on the campground grass to keep it green. It was 100+ both nights we were there. Our RV A/C never turned off! The water level was so low, the river didn’t even look inviting. The only folks we ever saw were park staff and the poor soles that were tent camping. RVers were all inside with AC.
We’d consider staying here again... at a cooler time... for one night while passing through.

No AT&T service.

We saw snakes, lizards, squirrels, rabbits, frogs, an owl, and lots of geese out on the water.

We stayed one night on September 21st but would've stayed longer had we not been on such a tight schedule. Our site was out close to the Snake River; actually the first site to the right as you descend to the "outer" loop. (In front of recycle bins) True....hardly any trees and, true....windy. But also true....we had NO neighbors. The road down to the loop was on one side but far enough away that it played no role in disturbing our privacy. The other side of our site was all brush and small trees. There was a walking path down to the river next to our site and our little trailer blocked the wind. We liked Huntington because it was a tiny quirky village. Exactly what we wanted! Peace and quiet.

We came here after several weeks of busy exploring in Washington and Oregon. There is nothing to do in this area, but that is just what we needed... a week of downtime. There are not many stores or anything nearby so stock up before you come. The campsites in the C loop are large with generous spacing between sites. The Snake River was behind our site and we had a beautiful view. When we first pulled into our site my phone showed no Verizon at all so I was afraid we wouldn't be able to stay since we work remotely and rely on cell coverage. We put up the booster and got 4G that worked surprisingly well for the entire week. Phone was a little weak but still usable with one 1 or 2 dropped calls during the week. AT&T did not work at all even with the booster. The campground was very quiet and peaceful when we were there in late September.