Tahkenitch Campround
Date Visited: June 30,2012
Location: Beach south of Florence
Type of Campground: Forest Service
Reservations: Before July: Some sites can be reserved and the rest are first come first serve
Starting in July: All sites are reservable (for the summer I assume)
Description: We picked this campground near Florence because it was more of a tent camping campground with no hook-ups. None of us had been here before so we randomly reserved some sites-paid the reservation fees and headed south. When we arrived we found an almost empty campground- our reserved sites were seriously crappy-tiny and bumpy. We looked around and found some better sites and asked the camp host if we could switch. Basically they had no idea what was going on but we took charge and moved anyways. A few other bummers about this campground- a lot of the sites were tiny, the water was very rusty tasty, and brown so we had to fill our water in the bathroom, and then there were the mosquitoes. We hadn't really considered the number of lakes in the area but the mosquitoes were everywhere making it difficult to do much hiking in the dunes or play outside. Also camping at the beach in Oregon we found ourselves enjoying 18 hours straight of rain. Thank goodness for our fancy new rain shelter. Some good things about this campground were the lack of RV campers and a trail head down through the dunes to beach starts right from the edge of the campground. It is a beautiful but long trail-so it is a hike not a beach access. I didn't write down any site numbers for reservation purposes since my brilliant blog idea came later.
Pros: Trail access at campground, nice bathrooms, not crowded (but it was rainy and mosquitoey-so maybe people were just smarter than us:)
Cons: Mosquitoes, rusty water, weird hosts, some pretty bad tent sites
Activities/Hikes Nearby: Tahkenitch-Three Mile Trailhead, Discovery Center in Reedsport
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