Bird/Wildlife Watching

Sun Outdoors Coos Bay

62 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 9 Tent Sites, 6 Cottages

Sun Outdoors Coos Bay in Coos Bay, OR, offers 62 full-hookup RV sites, 7 cabin and cottage rentals, and 9 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 87 feet. Sites come in six categories — standard and premium back-ins, concourse back-ins, standard and premium pull-thrus, concourse pull-thrus, and deluxe pull-thrus — all carrying water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. At 87 feet the deluxe pull-thrus take long coaches. If you booked here before, note the name change: Oceanside RV Resort & Campground is now Sun Outdoors Coos Bay. Open all year, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills and exchange, and a game room. Pets are welcome. An outdoor pool, a fitness center, and beach access fill the grounds, with hiking, swimming, fishing, birding, picnicking, and planned activities. The resort sits at 90281 Cape Arago Highway on the central Oregon Coast, where the Cape Arago headland, the Oregon Dunes, and the Pacific's most productive Dungeness crab fishery all converge. Rates by site category are on the booking page. Summer on the Oregon Coast books out early.

from $36/night

Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe

14 RV Sites, 8 Cottages, 1 Yurt

Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe in Junction City, CA, offers 14 full-hookup RV sites, 8 cottages, and 1 yurt, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 52 feet. Sites come in two categories, back-in 30/50-amp and pull-in 30/50-amp, each carrying water, sewer, and electric with WiFi across the property. The on-site cafe is part of the appeal — this is a resort with a kitchen, not a campground with a vending machine. A recreation center, walking trails, and a dog park round it out, and the property doubles as a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. The Trinity River runs along the resort, and that's the draw: fishing, kayaking, hiking, birding, horseshoes, and planned activities, with the river running cold and clear out of the Trinity Alps. Junction City sits in Trinity County, one of California's most remote and most scenically dramatic inland counties, well off the interstate grid. Rates for sites, cottages, and the yurt are on the booking page. Summer river season and fall steelhead runs book earliest.

from $62/night

Lakeshore Resort - Lakehead

39 RV Sites, 10 Cabins, 1 Cottage

Lakeshore Resort in Lakehead, CA, offers 39 full-hookup RV sites and 11 cabin and cottage rentals, with 30 and 50-amp service and a mix of back-in and pull-thru layouts. Site categories are straightforward: full-hookup back-ins, full-hookup pull-thrus, water-and-electric back-ins that also take tents, and water-and-electric lakeview sites. Full-hookup sites carry water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi and a picnic table. The resort is open all year. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, and a dump station cover the essentials, and pets are welcome. Check-in is 2pm for RV guests with an 11am checkout, while cabin guests check in at 3pm and out by 11am. An outdoor pool, a game room and arcade, a bar, and a playground fill the grounds, with lake access for swimming, fishing, and wildlife watching. Lakehead sits five minutes off Interstate 5 in Shasta County, on the banks of Shasta Lake — California's largest reservoir at 29,000 surface acres with 365 miles of shoreline in the Klamath Mountains. Rates for sites and cabins are on the booking page. Lakeview water-and-electric sites are limited and book first in summer.

from $53/night

Oregon Outback RV Park

11 RV Sites, 1 Tent Site

Oregon Outback RV Park in Lakeview, Oregon, offers 11 RV sites and a tent site on the Oregon Outback Scenic Byway, with 30 and 50-amp water-and-electric service and rigs accepted to 80 feet. Pull-through and no-hookup back-in categories serve a spacious, family-owned property at 4,800 feet with views of Abert Rim. Eleven sites run in pull-through and no-hookup back-in configurations, the serviced sites carrying water and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 80 feet, with picnic tables — note there are no sewer hookups, though a dump station is available. A tent site covers simpler camping. Laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and WiFi handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. A playground serves families, and the setting does the rest. Abert Rim rises directly from the alkali flat of Lake Abert's western shore — the longest exposed fault escarpment in North America at over 30 miles long and 2,500 feet tall, a geological display that recalibrates your sense of the Great Basin's vertical scale. Fishing, hiking, biking, birding, and hot springs are all accessible from the area, with skiing nearby in season. The elevation delivers crisp, clear air and genuinely dark night skies, which the Outback Byway's distance from any major urban center sustains. Lake County packs more geological and wildlife interest into its landscape than almost anywhere else in Oregon. The park serves the high desert season, with summer travel on the byway the peak and fall bringing clear conditions and quiet. With 11 sites, reserve ahead for summer weekends.

from $25/night

Hart's Camp

Hart's Camp in Pacific City, OR, offers full-hookup RV sites carrying water, sewer, and electric, with a fire pit and picnic table at each site. Both pull-thru and back-in layouts are available, and the camp is rated big rig friendly. The grounds are gated, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, firewood, propane fills and exchange, a clubhouse, a pavilion, on-site dining, and recycling. Airstreams and cabins are available for guests without a rig. Contact the camp for site count, amp service, and maximum rig length, since those specifics aren't published here. The recreation is genuinely coastal: an indoor pool, a hot tub, a spa, a fitness center, mini-golf, walking trails, a community fire pit, horseshoes, and corn hole, with surfing, paddle boarding, kayaking, boating, swimming, hiking, biking, birding, and winter storm watching on the doorstep. Hart's Camp sits directly behind Pacific City Beach, with Haystack Rock, Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area and its tide pools, the Nestucca River estuary, and the Pacific City Pathways Trail all within a short walk. Moment Surf Company and the local wine bars are minutes away. Rates for every accommodation type are on the booking page. Summer on the Oregon Coast books out early.

from $29/night