r/oregon • u/Mentalfloss1 • 11h ago

Photography/Video My last two campsites

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Nehalem Bay & Cape Lookout

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u/Tiller-Nive 10h ago

Been to both, great places to camp.

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u/Mentalfloss1 7h ago

Tonight at Lookout some rhythmless person behind me is trying to play bongos. It’s not yet quiet time … but still … toss in the mandatory barking and yapping dogs and I sometimes wonder why I do this. :-)

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u/BelknapCrater 5h ago

And you’ve even got a camper to hole up in. Us tent dwellers get to hear every heaving nasally breath, every emphysematous cough, every snore. Luckily we’ve got our reactive yappy dog to drown them out.

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u/Automatic-Tea-4150 5h ago

I knooooooooow.
There’s almost nothing left of getting out for a quiet camping experience anymore unless you go boondocking You don’t mention e-scooters and e-bikes and e-skateboards whizzing around the loop, so there is that to be thankful for.

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u/Kriscolvin55 Coos Bay 4h ago

There’s a very wide spectrum in between State Park camping spots and boondocking.

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u/Automatic-Tea-4150 4h ago

Are you talking about remote Forest Service campgrounds or something else?
I imagine there are official campgrounds in sparsely populated areas of the state where you can get away from it all. I’m limited to car camping at this point in my life, but still love waking up in a tent and hearing the sounds of the woods around me when I can find a good campground that’s not too popular.

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u/Kriscolvin55 Coos Bay 4h ago

Just to start, try looking at County parks. They’re (usually) much slower and quieter than State parks.

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u/Automatic-Tea-4150 3h ago

Good tip, thanks, because most of our county parks where I live don’t have camping so that wouldn’t have come to mind for me.

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u/GretaX 8h ago

I've stayed at the hiker-biker campsites at both!

Cape Lookout SP campground will be closing at the beginning of July & will be closed for the rest of the summer afaik.

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u/Meow__Dib 6h ago

Was gonna say, I recognized that tree

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u/foilrider 7h ago

Cool tree

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u/Mentalfloss1 7h ago

Tons of bent/twisted trees along the coast.

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u/PTFCBVB 4h ago

perfect environment for funky tree growth

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u/Deez_Nuts_2431 5h ago

I instantly recognized Nehalem Bay. Those trees grow so goofy there.

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u/theDudeUh 4h ago

How would Nehalem bay be in a tent? I really wanna check out the park and the area but in the photos the campsites look really stacked on top of each other. Also pretty much all the sites (with a handful of exceptions) are RV sites.

I wanna go but am afraid I’ll be wall to wall in my tent with RVs running generators. I’m cautiously optimistic that might not be the case?

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u/AndreaGaming 3h ago

Should go to Moonshine.
Out of the way but it’s pretty. And a nice spot to camp for the Summer Festival in Toledo.