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Ashland's Creekside Campground

9 RV Sites, 25 Tent Sites

Ashland's Creekside Campground & RV Park offers a straightforward and comfortable place to stay for travelers visiting Ashland, Oregon. With full and partial RV hookup sites and tent camping options with and without power, our property is designed for guests looking for a convenient stop while exploring the area. Enjoy an inexpensive way to stay in Ashland, get back to nature, and camp under the stars. Relax in a peaceful park-like setting and take in the natural beauty that surrounds our property. Once you have stayed at Ashland’s Creekside Campground, you'll want to come back year after year.

from $39/night

Crescent RV Park

10 Tent Sites

Crescent RV Park in Crescent, Oregon, offers full-hookup RV sites and 10 tent sites operating year-round at the eastern base of the Cascade Range, with a big-rig-friendly layout, laundry, showers, and WiFi. The year-round operation is the distinguishing fact here — winter visitors get full infrastructure when the region's ski and snowmobile season is at its peak. Full-hookup sites carry water, sewer, and electric, with a big-rig-friendly layout for larger coaches, and 10 tent sites cover simpler camping. A dump station, restrooms, hot showers, and coin-operated laundry run year-round, and WiFi reaches the park. The Crescent commercial corridor is within walking distance — Ken's Sporting Goods, a gas station, a convenience store, restaurants, and a US Forest Service station — which removes the provisioning drive that most rural campgrounds require. Pets are welcome. On-site facilities are practical rather than recreational: the dump station, laundry, showers, and restrooms are what a year-round park in this climate needs, and the big-rig-friendly layout means long coaches can get in and out in winter conditions. National forest ATV trails start a quarter mile east of the park, which puts off-road riding within walking distance of your site. Fishing, boating, hiking, biking, and stargazing all run from the immediate area, with skiing nearby in season. Crescent sits in Klamath County where the pumice desert and ponderosa pine of the Oregon high desert meet the Cascades. The Cascade Lakes Scenic Highway is under nine miles out, Crescent Lake is 20 miles, and Crater Lake is 55 — with Waldo and Paulina Lakes and Salt Creek Falls in between. Summer brings lake and hiking traffic; winter brings skiers and snowmobilers to a park that stays open and fully serviced when others in the region close. Both seasons run steady, so reserve ahead either way, and expect the winter months to draw a different crowd entirely — sledders and skiers running the Willamette Pass and Mount Bachelor terrain rather than the summer lake circuit.

from $20/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.