Video: Guide to California State Parks
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Michael & Imkelina
Wheat Land Communities' Fairgrounds
Ritzville, WA
1052 days ago
Michael & Imkelina 55 reviews
"A pristine oasis of thick lawns surrounded by acres of wheat fields"
As we drove on Hwy 90, you gaze upon thousands of acres of wheat and alfalfa fields. Ritzville is known as a farming town offering fuel, groceries and eateries for the traveler and the fairgrounds provide an overnight stay for the weary. So after...
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LaPine State Park
La Pine, OR
1056 days ago
Michael & Imkelina 55 reviews
"We keep on returning..."
LaPine State Park and the miles of yet to be explored wilderness offers unlimited outdoor activities, i.e. hiking, fishing, kayaking, mountain biking and wildlife viewing. Located on the Deschutes River and surrounded by a lodgepole and ponderosa...
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Ochoco Divide Campground
Prineville, OR
1056 days ago
Michael & Imkelina 55 reviews
"The campground signature...peaceful, quiet and beautiful"
What a beautiful and perfect campground located in the Ochoco National Forest at the 4,700 foot elevation. This small forest service campground featured 29 easy access sites, pull through and back ins, with over half of those sites able to...
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L.L. Stub Stewart State Park
Buxton, OR
1656 days ago
Michael & Imkelina 55 reviews
"Thank you L.L. Stub Stewart, it is true life is best when you are camping."
Another Oregon State Park that is beautiful, very clean and exceptionally well maintained. A big shout out to the volunteer camp hosts who have embrace this park as their own and demonstrate daily pride of ownership making sure each site is...
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McKenzie Bridge Campground
Blue River, OR
1670 days ago
Michael & Imkelina 55 reviews
"This beautiful river is nature's life song..."
We were pleasantly surprised to find McKenzie Bridge, a small 20 site US Forest Service campground right on the bank of the McKenzie River, with a couple of sites large enough for our beast of a motorhome. Granted we needed multiple tries to get...
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Casey's Riverside RV Park
Westfir, OR
1686 days ago
Michael & Imkelina 55 reviews
"Let the river relax and soothe you..."
Before we share all the reasons you should love this park, let us say what has already been said. Yes, train tracks are across the river and pass my all during the day and night, you pass by a non 5 star trailer park as you enter and the pool is...
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Lost Dutchman State Park Campground
Apache Junction, AZ
1702 days ago
Michael & Imkelina 55 reviews
"Who's afraid of Superstitions?"
This park was high on our list of “need to see Arizona State Parks.” Have you ever seen the photos used to illustrate the Superstition Mountains? Well we were parked right in that viewfinder's lane... awakening each morning to the spectacular...
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Osoyoos Lake Veterans Memorial Park
Oroville, WA
"Very nice lakefront sites...with SHADE and very close to Canadian border"
Osoyoos Lake Veterans Memorial Park
Oroville, WA
"Very nice lakefront sites...with SHADE and very close to Canadian border"
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site & Campground
Dateland, AZ
"Stunning sunrises and sunsets from the comfort of your huge campsite!"
Wheat Land Communities' Fairgrounds
Ritzville, WA
"A pristine oasis of thick lawns surrounded by acres of wheat fields"
L.L. Stub Stewart State Park
Buxton, OR
"Thank you L.L. Stub Stewart, it is true life is best when you are camping."
Manzanita Lake Campground
Mineral, CA
"Wonderful National Park campground offering activities for everyone."
Movie Flat Designated Dispersed Camping
Lone Pine, CA
""You need to be here before you go there"...."
Henry Rierson Spruce Run Campground
Lukarilla, OR
"Henry Rierson Spruce Run Park is the official name of this campground...small, yet beautiful!"
Hendy Woods State Park
Philo, CA
"Wonderful campground nestled under the beautiful canopy of majestic redwoods."
Indian Bread Rocks Dispersed Camping
Bowie, AZ
"The perfect waypoint for some rock scrambling, hiking and no leash dog exploration..."
Bonita Canyon Campground
Willcox, AZ
"Hike through the pinnacles... what the Chiricahua Apache called "standing up rocks.""
Kartchner Caverns State Park Campground
Benson, AZ
"If you wanna see the Caverns...this is the place to camp!"
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BlaNicS Waypoints: Rivers, Rivers and More Rivers
"My favorite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveler into its embrace." Rory Maclean I believe each one of us h...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Rivers, Rivers and More Rivers
"My favorite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveler into its embrace." Rory Maclean I believe each one of us h...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Winterhavens in Arizona
Waypoints are sets of coordinates that identify a point in physical space. In our world, waypoints are sometimes abstract, often having no obvious relationship to any distinctive features of the real...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Lassen Volcanic National Park...A Hidden Gem of California East
"When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life"....
BlaNicS Waypoints: Tuttle Creek...Reluctant Homeward Bounders
"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. Th...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Getaway to the Gateway-Alabama Hills
"And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon the earth's shore. These mountains, which have...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Getaway to the Gateway...Fossil Falls
“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ev...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Hearst San Simeon State Park
"The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back' Wendy Wunder We returned to our Central Coast Hidey Hole, but unbeknownst to us at the time, for...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Washoe Lake State Park
"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and un-explorable, the land and sea be indefinitely, wi...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Lake Almanor...Where the Sierras Meet The Cascades
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness, weakness. Henry David Thoreau As we bid farewell...
BlaNicS Waypoints: The Hills, The Valley and The Desert
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot The Alabama Hills offer so much...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Them Alabama Hills
"You need to be here before your go there" the BlaNicS...(but I want to be everywhere) "Being" has always offered so many textures and colors of living for us to experience...and those experienc...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Salmon Harbor Marina
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind." Lucius Annaeus Seneca Winchester Bay has been one of our favorite travel stops over the last 8 years. We previously blogged a...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Rincon Parkway
"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul." Wyland Visualize being parked parallel with the ocean on a 47’ paved RV pad below Highway 101. Runnin...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Anza Borrego Desert
"Really, to appreciate the desert you must live close to its heart, walk upon it's unbroken soil, and camp upon it's clean sands." Edmund C. Jaeger Picture this plan…toodle out to a desolate sp...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Borrego Palm Canyon Campground
" A desert is a place without expectation." Nadine Gordimer For our last night in the Anza Borrego Desert, we decided to camp at the state’s Borrego Palm Canyon Campground in Borrego Springs. We...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Coyote Dry Lake
Prior to heading into Joshua Tree National Park, we elected to boondock out of the park until after the weekend. This area on north Joshua is known by rv'ers as a favorite place to camp near the...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Nehalem Bay State Park
"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much." Robin Lee Graham We left the state of Washington with reluctance, for there was still so much left on the plate to explore. I am su...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Sol Duc Campground
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Chesire Cat, Alice In Wonderland We left Salt Creek Recreation Area with no real plan of where we were going next. We only kne...
BlaNicS Waypoints: North Fork Campground
“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out to sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir This beautiful campground sits along the north fork of the...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Champoeg State Park
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." Ralph Waldo Emerson During this stay, there wasn’t a day that Imkelina and Sydney did not walk almost ten miles (occasionally with me in tow)...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Rufus Landing Recreational Area
"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error." Voltaire During our 8-week adventure we wanted to use every resource available in locating campsites. We visite...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Back To Where It All Began...La Grande, Oregon
"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me" Hermann Hesse Our brief visit with Melinda an...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Williamson River Campground - Fremont-Winema National Forest
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson As we traveled up the highway, I stare in wonderment at the endless miles of...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Joshua Tree National Park
"We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us." Neil deGrasse Tyson Total Solitude, and get this,...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Little Creek Casino-Resort
"There is an ancient legend of the Squaxin Island People that connects the humans with the sky people. The story is told of a strong (skookum) young man who had become captivated by the beauty of a y...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Quinault Beach Resort and Casino
"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul" Wyland After leaving Sol Duc Valley, we just could not get Olympic National Park out of our system. We w...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Salt Creek Recreation Area
"The language of friends is not words, but meanings" Henry David Thoreau RV living can be golden when your campsites mirror each other, i.e.beauty for beauty (and your rig easily fits your sit...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Highway 395
"Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood. Let the smell of the wildflowers flow free through my blood. Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves. Let me wa...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Highway 395
"Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood. Let the smell of the wildflowers flow free through my blood. Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves. Let me wa...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Cape Lookout State Park...the trail home.
"There's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away" Sarah Kay Along with Dick and Melinda, we departed Hen...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Nehalem River
"Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer." Radhanath Swami Nehalem River We had never heard of Clatsop State Forest....
BlaNicS Waypoints: Volcanic Tablelands
"The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the dust and blood of our ancestors. Chief Plenty Coups I have to believe the Paiute came to literally offer homage to these volcanic bluf...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Indian Bread Rocks Recreation Area
"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes." Henry David Thoreau We left Chiricahua National Monument with the exci...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Chiricahua National Monument
"I am alone in the world. I want to live in these mountains; I do not want to go to Tularosa. That is a long way off. I have drunk of the waters of the Dragoon Mountains and hey have cooled me; ...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Kartchner Caverns State Park
"The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for." Joseph Campbell Tombstone storefront prop WOULD YOU TRY THIS? The story of Kartchner Caverns star...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
"Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and then the borders bleed as we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red." Maryn Mannes...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Darby Well Road Boondockers
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one." Friends Dick and Melinda have shared many a conversation with us of camping on...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
"The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return...Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that come...
BlaNicS Waypoints: Sycamore Canyon Campground
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach“ Henry Beston When looking at the extende...
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