Stargazing

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

Ashland's Creekside Campground

9 RV Sites, 25 Tent Sites

Ashland's Creekside Campground in Oregon offers 9 RV sites and 25 tent sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 40 feet, open all year. Full-hookup RV sites join a water-only category, with an outdoor pool, clubhouse, game room, sports courts, and creek frontage. Nine sites run in full-hookup RV and water-only categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with site WiFi, sized to 40 feet. Read the category carefully — the water-only tier carries no electric or sewer and prices accordingly, which gives self-contained rigs a genuine budget option. Note the 40-foot cap before bringing a larger coach. Twenty-five tent sites, some with power and some without, make this substantially a tent property. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, firewood, RV storage, and boat storage handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a clubhouse, game room, arcade, sports courts, volleyball, basketball, billiards, ping pong, horseshoes, corn hole, a playground, dog park, and creek filling the rest. Wine tasting, mountains, a lake, and a national park area are nearby, and the stargazing is good. Ashland is the home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the largest regional theater companies in the country, which runs most of the year and fills the town. The Britt Music and Arts Festival, Rogue River rafting, Mount Ashland's skiing, and the local wineries round out the calendar, with Crater Lake about two hours northeast. Festival season from spring through fall drives demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $39/night