Moon Pacific Northwest Camping: The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping in Washington and Oregon (Moon Outdoors) [Paperback]

Tom Stienstra (Author)

Book Description

Series: Moon Outdoors | Publication Date: May 31, 2006

If you are looking for the perfect place to camp in the Pacific Northwest, your trip starts with Moon Pacific Northwest. It's the ideal resource for finding campsites—from secluded alpine hike-in spots to convenient roadside stopovers—throughout the entire state. Join two-time National Outdoor Writer of the Year Tom Stienstra as he brings you: descriptions of camping options, ranging from state park campgrounds to RV parks; complete contact information and summaries of each campground's scenic features, facilities, and nearby recreation opportunities; expert tips on gear, safety, and first aid, weather, low-impact camping, and camping with kids; easy-to-use regional maps, driving directions to each campground, and details on fees, reservation services, and helpful websites.

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"A smart new look provides just one more reason to travel with Moon Outdoors. Well written, thoroughly researched, and packed full of useful information and advice, these guides really do get you into the outdoors."

Product Details

• Paperback: 896 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 9th edition (May 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566916976
• ISBN-13: 978-1566916974
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,070,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Our Favorite Campground Guide to the Pacific Northwest!, November 1, 2006

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Dave & Kay Corby "Food & Travel Writers" (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon Pacific Northwest Camping: The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping in Washington and Oregon (Moon Outdoors) (Paperback)

As indicated by reviewers of earlier editions, the Moon Outdoors (previously Foghorn Outdoors) series of campground guides is not without flaws. Even so, we know of no directories which do a better job of addressing campground aesthetics than these wonderful guides. In our experience, the look and feel of a campground is often the single greatest factor influencing the quality of a camping experience . . . and the factor totally ignored by nearly all other campground guides.

There are a number of directories which rate facilities, provide directions, tell you how to make reservations and give you an idea of the cost for a night's stay in a specific campground. This series gives similar basic information and then goes beyond that. This guides from Moon Outdoors actually gives you a feel of what it is like to stay in a specific campground - a bit of a narrative description and a "scenic beauty rating" for each campground plus information about nearby recreation opportunities. We like that a lot.

Have we found instances where we liked a campground more or less than the book's author? Of course. Tastes differ and things change over time. Even so, we would rather have an admittedly subjective rating of a campground's intangibles than to have nothing to go on but a recitation of facts and figures.

Are the Moon Outdoors Guides the only ones we use? No. But they are ALWAYS the first place we turn when selecting a destination campground.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the book to have, June 12, 2007

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K. M Merrill "justine" (Forest Grove, OR, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moon Pacific Northwest Camping: The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping in Washington and Oregon (Moon Outdoors) (Paperback)

If you camp this is the book to have, espcially if you tent camp and want to find all the small campgrounds. I love finding all the tent campgrounds, this is the definite book for the NW.
five stars is not enough for the work that went into thsi book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have book by a quality writer, October 2, 2007

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Theresa Anne Kelly "Happy Camper" (Thousand Oaks, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moon Pacific Northwest Camping: The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping in Washington and Oregon (Moon Outdoors) (Paperback)

My husband enjoy going on camping adventures, and we use all of Tom Stienstra's camping books like bibles. I have noted only one mistake on his California book, but on the whole they are useful and informative.
We plan a trip up the California coast to Oregon, then to Washington.
We plan to tent camp all the way using his books. We did it before a few years ago and it worked out great. I strongly recommend this book or any of his books to anyone who wants to have fun, cheap, exciting adventures camping!