Near the painted hills of Oregon! Not much to it, but there are restrooms with running water. Caught a ride from here to the hills for sunset.

Mitchell is a nice little town in central Oregon.

Campground doesn't have a formal check-in process. Reservations made online or over the phone only. There are no showers, and the flush-toilet bathrooms are minimally attended. During one of my stays here, bathrooms were closed and only the vault toilets were accessible.

Some campsites are amazing, and others are not so great. The good sites are spacious, secluded, and do not have a driveway. They are hidden in the brush 20-30 yards from where you can park the car. Others are small with little to no privacy, but these ones do have private driveways.

Great starting place for the a hike to the beach through the Oregon dunes. Note that in order to protect snowy plover nests, dogs are not allowed on this section of the beach during certain times of the year.

Stayed here once in 2020 when wildfires broke out. Had to go home early because smoke filled the entire state. Second time we stayed, it poured rain. Might not try my luck again.

There is a golf course right next door. Well-curated campground. Tent camping available here, but we stayed in a yurt. Yurts do not have much greenery for privacy, but you have walls, so I suppose that makes up for it.

Inside the yurt is a heater, a small table, a bunk bed, and a futon. Fire pit around the side. Hot showers and potable water everywhere. Camp hosts and staff were pleasant.

Short walk to a gorgeous beach and miles of hiking trails! Caution: dogs not allowed in some nearby parks.

Stayed numerous times in the hiker/biker section. Pre-COVID was $5, but price has been raised to $8. They do offer hot showers. Campground is huge. It doesn't offer close beach access. There are miles of dunes separating camp from the coast.

Stayed here again in July 2021. Camp area is clean. Potable water available right in hiker/biker section, which is separate from the car-camping area. Group fire pit and several picnic tables in this section as well.

No reservations. First-come, first-served. About a dozen campsites, plus a hiker-biker area. $10 for an individual campsite. $5 per hiker/biker. We stayed in the hiker-biker section.

Two pit toilets and potable water available. The area is well-maintained. There is no cell service in camp or along most of the 60-mile C2C (Corvallis to Coast) Trail. Camp is near a small town, but there were no amenities that I could tell.

The campground is right on the river. Good spot if you're in a pinch without reservations while passing through the area. Small day-use area and a handful of first-come, first-served camping sites.

Pit toilets only. No potable water here. Smith River is clean enough, so we filtered water from there.

I've stayed here twice on bike tours between Cottage Grove, OR and Reedsport, OR. It's a decent stop for touring cyclists who have minimal needs. We've never been bothered for camping here without registering.

Camped here on a bike trip (as with many of my other adventures). Not very dense in the green department. This was a nice departure from the campgrounds in the Oregon Cascades. A little more arid and desert-y. Some raccoons got into our panniers, though!

Smoky Bear greets you at the entrance. Don't forget to say Hi!

The usual state park backdrop to park a car and pitch a tent. What this campground has going for it is the surrounding hiking trails, and its proximity to Silver Creek Falls. You have to drive from the campground to the actual waterfall hikes, but it's a great jumping-off point.

Not sure what this area is like after the 2020 wild fires, but I had a nice time camping and hiking around the lake in 2018. Fantastic sunsets. The water is swimmable, but it's a really shallow grade. You have to walk out around 100 yards to even sit down in the water. Campground we stayed at was not fancy. But it was private.

This was a fun stop on Oahu. Keep expectations low as the amenities are few and far between. The beach shacks are pretty raw, but it's nice to have a place to keep stuff safe. There was no mattress on the bed, and the whole thing was crawling with ants. But it had electricity, a bit of privacy, and a porch to hang out on. Two-minute walk to the ocean from our site. They also had car/tent camping area for those with the gear. Outdoor shower with no privacy screen. Looking forward to staying here again.

This is the only place I will stay when I come back to Maui. Tentalos are a far cry from roughing it, but they're also awesome. Much cheaper than a hotel. Well-kept grounds are similar to a city park. Close access to the beach and water activities. You can rent surfboards, paddle boards, kayaks. Saw whales surfacing at sundown.

Glamp it up.

Great spot to get away from the usual busy family campgrounds and state parks. Nothing fancy here. Vault toilets. Don't remember if there is even running water. But Adjacent Brice Creek is refreshingly cold for a swim on a hot day.

First-come, first-served campground. We had plenty of privacy from our neighbors. Right next to hiking trails along the creek.

Stayed here twice on the same bicycle trip. Once on the way up the coast, and again on the way back down. It's not super-separated from the rest of the campground, but it's a huge area with lots of picnic tables and fire pits. Short walk to the ocean from here. Also, Manzanita is a short bike ride away. Decent Oregon beach town.

Loved camping here as a stop on a road trip along Oregon coast hwy 101. The entire campground isn't like this, but our site was directly beneath the highway and next to the beach. There are fun hikes that leave right from camp that go to a waterfall. Check out the actual decommissioned lime kilns nearby.

It's just on the edge of Big Sur. Not much oversight to the park, but that was OK. It allowed us let some traveling kids without a reservation share our site.

Stayed here on a bike tour. Typical group site for a hiker/biker group. The flaws were that the site was up a hill from the rest of the campground, and the showers/bathrooms were a fair distance from the campsite (down the hill).

Otherwise, they had hot showers, and the price was right ($5)!

Camped here on a bicycle tour. Hiker/biker site was not as tucked away as many are on the Oregon coast, but it's all one needs when traveling. Showers were hot. Price was $5. No reservations required. Caught a great sunset on the coast that night.

Stopped here on a bicycle tour during Memorial Day weekend, and there were no camp hosts, rangers, or attendants of any kind. Hiker-biker sites do not require advance reservation and are supposed to be reserved for folks who are traveling without cars. Because no one was managing the campground, car campers had taken over the hiker-biker area, and there were cars parked in the driving lanes with people were setting up tents along the foot paths to the bathrooms. It looked like music festival camping.

The campground is just outside Forks, Washington. After passing through the town, a truck full of men who had been drinking in a parking lot followed me out of town most of the way to the campground. Bad vibes all around in this area.

I don't know whether or not this is a nice campground when it is being serviced. It may be, but I had a bad experience here that doesn't give me the confidence to want to return.

Stopped here on a bicycle tour. It's nice that they have a hiker/biker section. The price was $6 (as opposed to $5 in Oregon), and showers cost extra (they are free in Oregon). That part was disappointing for a budgeting traveler.

Otherwise, campground was clean and well-maintained. Staff was friendly. The bike racks at camp were not ideal for actually locking up a bike. I'm not sure who comes up with the designs for these things.

The water is no-joke cold. Fantastic nine-mile hike into the forest. Stayed two nights. Elevation is ~8,000 feet. Got altitude sickness on day two.

No fires allowed. No amenities. Back-country hikers only. No cell service. Perfect getaway.

More city park than campground. Expensive for the amenities offered (no shower) and no privacy or greenery. Caters better to an RV passing through town than to someone looking for a camping experience.

It is on the McKenzie River, which is beautiful and cold.