Canoeing/Kayaking

Honey Bear By the Sea RV Resort

97 RV Sites, 19 Tent Sites

Honey Bear by the Sea RV Resort in Gold Beach, Oregon, offers 97 RV sites and 19 tent sites at the mouth of the Rogue River, with 20, 30, and 50-amp full hookups, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Ocean-view back-in and premium pet sites join pull-through, pull-in, and partial-hookup categories, with a recreation center, koi pond, and beach. Ninety-seven sites span standard back-in, back-in partial hookup, ocean-view back-in, premium back-in, premium pet, premium pull-thru, and pull-in categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The ocean-view category is the one to request, and the dedicated premium pet sites are an unusual and practical touch. Nineteen tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, firewood, RV storage, and boat storage handle the practical side. A recreation center, game room, library, billiards, ping pong, basketball, and horseshoes fill the indoor side, with a beach, koi pond, walking trails, hiking, biking, and a dog park outdoors. Fishing, canoeing, and kayaking run from the river. Pets are welcome. The Rogue's legendary steelhead and salmon waters meet the Pacific here, with the Wild Rogue Wilderness inland and the Oregon Coast's most dramatic shoreline running north and south. Summer and the fall salmon runs drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $43 $37/night

Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe

14 RV Sites, 8 Cottages, 1 Yurt

Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe in Junction City, California, occupies the banks of the Trinity River in Trinity County — a riverside resort in one of California's most remote and most scenically dramatic inland counties, where the Trinity River flows cold and clear from the Trinity Alps Wilderness through a forested canyon that supports world-class fly fishing, whitewater rafting, and the kind of genuine wilderness character that Highway 299's remote corridor delivers for travelers willing to make the drive between Redding and the Humboldt coast. The resort's combination of cottages, a 30-foot yurt, pet-friendly accommodations, and full-hookup RV sites gives guests a range of accommodation formats suited to the river canyon environment, and the on-site café — built into a 2,000-square-foot straw bale structure overlooking the Trinity — provides the culinary experience that makes staying at Strawhouse a more complete destination than simply a camping infrastructure. Cottages including the Creekside Cottage and Suncrest House, the distinctive 30-foot yurt, and RV sites positioned across from the café with private fishing and direct Trinity River access give guests multiple ways to inhabit the same riverside setting. The resort's family-friendly orientation and the pet-friendly policy across multiple accommodation types make it accessible to the full range of traveling household compositions, and the private river access at the RV site level gives campers the direct Trinity River contact that motivated their drive to Trinity County in the first place. The café's organic coffee, full meals, and river view make it a natural gathering point for both resort guests and Highway 299 travelers. The Trinity River through Junction City and the Trinity County corridor is one of California's premier wild and scenic rivers — a designated Wild and Scenic River with exceptional water quality, substantial populations of summer and winter steelhead, spring chinook salmon, and rainbow trout in a river setting of old-growth Douglas fir and ponderosa pine forest. The Trinity River fly fishing tradition draws anglers from across California and the Pacific Northwest specifically to this corridor, and the combination of drift boat float fishing and wade fishing through the green-water pools accessible from the resort's private access makes Strawhouse the natural base for fishing-focused Trinity County stays. Whitewater rafting on the Trinity River, accessible through outfitters operating from the Junction City area, provides Class II through IV whitewater through the canyon sections that the river's gradient and volume produce in the right-season conditions — typically from snowmelt through early summer. Trinity Lake, formed by Trinity Dam upstream near Weaverville, adds flatwater recreation, bass fishing, and lake camping options to the broader Trinity County recreation available from a Strawhouse base. The Trinity Alps Wilderness, rising to over 9,000 feet above the resort's valley floor, provides trail access into some of the most alpine and least-visited wilderness terrain in Northern California. Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe operates through Trinity County's outdoor season, with the steelhead and salmon fishing windows driving the most fishing-specific visitor traffic — fall chinook from September through November and winter steelhead from December through March. Summer whitewater and general resort season runs May through September when the café operates at full capacity and river access from the RV sites is most actively used. Reserve accommodations ahead for fall fishing season and summer rafting weekends, when Trinity County's limited lodging inventory fills from the Redding, Sacramento, and Bay Area markets.

from $62/night

Umpqua's Last Resort

15 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 1 Glamping Site, 1 RV Rental + Campsite Package, 2 Vintage RV Rentals

Umpqua's Last Resort sits along the North Umpqua River in Idleyld Park, Oregon, deep within the Umpqua National Forest in the Cascade Mountains of Douglas County — a campground built at the intersection of two of the Pacific Northwest's most compelling outdoor experiences: the North Umpqua River, one of the most celebrated fly fishing rivers in the western United States, and the highway corridor that leads east through the Cascades to Crater Lake National Park, the deepest lake in America. The resort's RV sites and wilderness cabins give guests the accommodation infrastructure for extended stays in a forested river canyon environment that improves the longer a visitor stays with it. RV sites in forested settings along the river corridor and wilderness cabin accommodations give guests a range of accommodation comfort levels in a setting where the primary appeal is the river itself — the North Umpqua's marble-green water, the basalt formations along the canyon walls, and the old-growth Douglas fir canopy overhead create a river environment whose visual quality is matched in the Pacific Northwest by very few streams not in a designated National Park. The campground's position along this specific stretch of the North Umpqua makes it one of the most naturally distinguished campground sites in the Oregon Cascades. The North Umpqua River is internationally recognized among fly fishing communities as one of the great wild trout streams in the American West — a river where summer steelhead, rainbow trout, and cutthroat trout inhabit the cold, clear pools and runs below forested basalt canyon walls in a setting of extraordinary natural beauty. The North Umpqua's native summer steelhead run supports one of the few remaining wild steelhead fisheries in the Oregon Cascades, and the river's fly-fishing-only designation through much of its upper reaches protects the quality of both the angling and the fishery resource in a way that preserves the experience for guests arriving specifically for the fishing. Umpqua Hot Springs, accessible by trail a short distance from the highway east of the resort, provides open-air natural thermal soaking at a series of tiered pools above the North Umpqua's canyon — a geothermal experience rare in western Oregon and a restorative contrast to a day of river fishing or hiking the numerous trails in the Umpqua National Forest. The 79-mile North Umpqua Trail, running alongside the river from the resort area east toward the Diamond Lake basin, provides one of the most consistently beautiful hiking and mountain biking routes in the Oregon Cascades. Crater Lake National Park, accessible via Oregon Highway 138 east through the Cascades from the resort, is the defining regional landmark — the 1,943-foot-deep caldera lake left by the collapse of Mount Mazama 7,700 years ago holds water of such extraordinary blue clarity that photographs consistently fail to convey the actual visual experience of the crater rim overlook. Umpqua's Last Resort operates through the Oregon Cascade summer season, with the North Umpqua's summer steelhead run from July through September and the Crater Lake visitor season representing the property's dual peak windows. Reserve well ahead for the steelhead season, when North Umpqua fishing guides book their preferred lodging corridor months in advance.

from $45/night

Mendocino Magic

Mendocino Magic in Laytonville, California, is a multi-format camping destination in inland Mendocino County offering RV sites, glamping setups, and traditional tent camping — a versatile outdoor accommodation property in the US-101 corridor of the North Coast Range where the Eel River's wild and scenic stream country, the Cahto Wilderness, and the drive to the Mendocino Coast's redwood groves, sea stacks, and art galleries give guests the most complete North Coast camping experience available from a campground positioned between the redwood coast and the inland mountain valley. Laytonville's Mendocino County position on US-101, 45 miles east of the Mendocino coast and 50 miles south of Humboldt Redwoods State Park, gives the campground the specific North Coast corridor character of a property at the intersection of the coast road's scenic tourism appeal and the inland mountain valley's quieter outdoor recreation character. RV sites, glamping setups, and traditional tent camping give Mendocino Magic the complete spectrum of overnight outdoor accommodation in a single Laytonville property — the glamping format specifically gives the comfort-seeking non-camper the curated outdoor accommodation experience that the Mendocino County inland mountain setting sustains without the tent camping infrastructure logistics, and the RV site gives the self-contained traveler the hookup service for the North Coast leg of the US-101 coastal tour. The campground's multi-format accommodation reflects the specific Mendocino County market of the coastal artisan and agricultural heritage tourism that the North Coast's unique culture sustains. Pets are welcome. Humboldt Redwoods State Park, 50 miles north of Laytonville on US-101 in Humboldt County, protects the largest remaining contiguous old-growth coast redwood forest in the world — 17,000 acres of ancient Sequoia sempervirens forest in the Eel River's Bull Creek drainage where the Avenue of the Giants 32-mile scenic alternate to US-101 passes through the Rockefeller Forest's 10,000-acre old-growth stand, the world's largest preserved ancient redwood grove, in a grove of trees that include the confirmed tallest individual specimens in the forest. The coast redwood's maximum height of 380 feet and the 2,000-year age class of the Bull Creek drainage's oldest trees give the Humboldt Redwoods the specific scale and antiquity that no other temperate forest in the Northern Hemisphere matches. The Mendocino Coast, 45 miles west of Laytonville via CA-162 and CA-1 at Fort Bragg, provides the dramatic sea stack and headland coastline of the Mendocino Headlands State Park, the Mendocino village's Victorian architecture and artist colony character, and the Noyo Harbor's working fishing fleet and salmon charter boat operation that give the Fort Bragg-Mendocino corridor its specific combination of natural coastal scenery and North Coast cultural heritage. The MacKerricher State Park's 10 miles of beach north of Fort Bragg and the Glass Beach's sea-polished glass deposits give the Mendocino coastal day trip its accessible natural and geological attractions. Mendocino Magic serves guests through Mendocino County's North Coast camping season, with the spring whale migration from February through April giving the coastal viewpoints their spectacular gray whale observation and the summer fog season from June through August creating the coastal marine layer conditions that the inland Laytonville valley's warmer, clearer summer temperatures specifically complement for the guest who values the inland camp over the often-foggy coast campground in the summer. The Cahto Wilderness in the Mendocino National Forest gives the campground's immediate backcountry hiking access in the Laytonville area's inland mountain terrain. Reserve sites and glamping accommodations ahead for the summer US-101 coastal tourism season and the fall harvest season in Mendocino County's wine and apple country.