The Best in Tent Camping: Washington & Oregon, 3rd: A Guide to Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos [Paperback]

Jeanne Louise Pyle (Author)

Book Description

Series: Best in Tent Camping - Menasha Ridge | Publication Date: July 1, 2000

If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping: Washington and Oregon should be your constant companion. This is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs. The Best in Tent Camping Washington and Oregon will guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campground in the Pacific Northwest. Painstakingly selected from more than 1,000 campgrounds in the two states, each campsite is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness and cleanliness. In addition, each campground profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map, making the campground a snap to locate.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Best In Tent Camping: Washington & Oregon is a guidebook for tent campers who like their campsites to be quiet, scenic, and serene. It is the perfect resource for beginners and has much of value for experienced campers as well. The Best In Tent Camping: Washington & Oregon is a guide to the most beautiful, best managed, quietest, and most secure campgrounds in the Pacific Northwest. Painstakingly selected from more than 1,000 campgrounds in the two states, each of the top campgrounds is described in detail and rated for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, quiet, security, cleanliness, and insect control. Clear, easy-to-read maps make locating the campgrounds a cinch, and an information key provides vital information on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions. The Best In Tent Camping: Washington & Oregon is a splendid, "take-along" reference and guidebook for anyone planning a camping trip in two of the most scenic states in the country! -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping: Washington and Oregon should be your constant companion. This is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs. The Best in Tent Camping Washington and Oregon will guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campground in the Pacific Northwest. Painstakingly selected from more than 1,000 campgrounds in the two states, each campsite is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness and cleanliness. In addition, each campground profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map, making the campground a snap to locate. (6 x 9, 192 pages, maps)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 3rd edition (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897322983
• ISBN-13: 978-0897322980
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,270,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't leave home without it!, January 8, 2000

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ngc131 (Edmonton, AB, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best in Tent Camping: Washington & Oregon : A Guide for Campers Who Hate Rvs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Paperback)

This book saved me from spending my vacation in motels. I was driving around Oregon on a Saturday morning last August wondering where on earth I would find a campground that wasn't full. I checked the book and sure enough it listed some beautiful but not so well known sites. The directions were easy to follow and I found a place to camp for the weekend. The descriptions of the two places I camped at matched the book exactly. I'll never travel in the Pacific Northwest again without taking this book along.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes helpful; sometimes confusing; sometimes misleading, September 2, 2002

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Wray MacKay (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best in Tent Camping: Washington & Oregon, 3rd: A Guide to Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Paperback)

I used this book during a 45 day camping trip that included Oregon. The content is usually helpful, but sometimes misleading. The infomration about Page Springs was truly helpful and led to a delightful time, including a trip up the Steen Mouintains. The information about Two Pan, on the other hand, was misleading. Actually, beside the summary of Campgound Ratings, there is very little information. What is misleading is the description as five-star quiet and five-star cleanliness/upkeep. The campground is right next to a large parking lot with horses, donkeys and lamas all about and many, many cars and people. It is anything but quiet. It also looks quite unused and unkempt; no one was there when we visited it. Suggesting that is the "jumping off spot for extended backpacking" does not give an accurate picture.

In the front pages is a map of the campsites in Oregon and Washinton. The number then can be matched on another page with the name of the campground. That name can then be matched with a page number on yet another page! Not convenient or immediately obvious.

By all means use this book; but use it with care and intelligence.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent supplemental guide, July 24, 2000

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Robert Merivel - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best in Tent Camping: Washington & Oregon, 3rd: A Guide to Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Paperback)

Considering the multitude of campgrounds in Oregon and Washington that exist with the same qualities presented in this book, I'm not sure the 12 bucks will get you anymore information than you could get from a more comprehensive guidebook. But if you are a first time camper, it lists 50 of the finest campgrounds in the northwest.