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Pacific Northwest Camping Destinations: RV and Car Camping Destinations in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia (Camping Destinations series)

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I have traveled extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest and much of the U.S. This year travel will be limited to the Pacific Northwest. As a "native" Washingtonian and lifelong camper I've been looking for a new guidebook that combines travel info with the latest on campgrounds. There are new parks and new travel ideas - enough to generate enthusiasm and travel plans! Each listing has large icon keys that make it easy to find suitable camping spots, ie 50 amps, big rigs, activities and more. The book covers Washington, Oregon and British Columbia with everything from weekend to multi-week trip planning possibilities. Thank you to the authors for a great guidebook.

We live near Tacoma and have a motorhome that doesn't fit in many of the state and federal campgrounds in the Northwest. This newest Church book is very good at helping to find the right places for our rig. In a month, using their advice, we found three wonderful RV campgrounds that we didn't know about. One is next to a first class trout river and another is at an entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park. Maybe the best part is that this book is helping us re-discover where we can go without using a lot of fuel! This is a great book for those that have never been to the Northwest as well as those that live there. Buy it! You'll like it!

I ask myself why is the word CAMPING even part of the title? RVing would have been more appropriate. I wonder if Mike & Terri Church have ever been "camping" in there lives. Being from the PNW---and growing up in the 50's---camping had meant going out to be with nature and leaving the refinements home. It would seem in minds of the authors camping is whether or not a 40 footer fits (is this paramount to camping today?) The authors often list when tent campers are not allowed---(Do they see the tent campers as riffraff to keep out and away from those 40 footers? Who knows but their undertone seems...)

I don't really have a problem with RV's I just think the authors should replace the word "Camping" with RVing.

Another misnomer is how they have used "British Columbia". By using the province's name, with out further defining the area covered, one would that they are referencing the whole province. Well if that is what you concluded you would be wrong. The authors/publishers are not telling you everything. What has been left out of the title is that only the lower half of the province is covered. Would it really been hard to have placed the word LOWER in front of British Columbia?

Being that the book was not about camping and that it did not cover British Columbia, in its entirety, Amazon received the book back.

This is an excellent book, NO ads; just great info about all campgrounds.
I used the 'Alaskan Camping' book ,also by Mike & Terri Church, during my entire
camping trip to Alaska. I liked this book better than Milepost!! Milepost has
way too many ads.......its loaded with ads; not this book!
Highly recommended.

The delivery was a little slow with no tracking, but the item was in GREAT condition