Hammond, OR

On Friday, we stayed at Cape Disappointment until the 1 pm check-out time because our next stop at a KOA in Hammond, Oregon, was only an hour away.  We enjoyed one more bike ride around the park that morning before loading up the bikes and getting ready for our long one hour journey further down the coast.  :)

I kind of messed up when I booked our reservations for the next couple of weeks after getting back from Nashville and didn't space our camping locations very far part.  We usually like to travel from 2 1/2 to 4 hours when we are changing locations.  I was so focused on price and how nice the campground was that I forgot to see how far we would be traveling between the campgrounds when I made the reservations.

We traveled Hwy 101 for most of our one hour trip from Cape Disappointment which included crossing the Columbia River over a two-lane bridge that is about 4 miles long.  It is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America and was the last completed segment of Hwy 101 (Wikipedia).  As the bridge gets closer to the Oregon side of the river, it rises to a very tall 196 feet (at high tide). 

 

When you are riding in a motorhome and looking down at the Columbia River below, it looks like you are about 500 feet above the river.

We drove through Astoria to Hammond, Oregon, where the KOA was located.  Check-in went very easy particularly considering the size of this KOA (311 sites).  KOAs are usually our last choice; but this weekend all KOAs had a free night of camping on Friday, September 13th, if you stayed for at least 2 nights.  This particular KOA had good reviews on RV Parks Review and was also listed on the Big Rigs Best Bets Directory. 

The other reason for choosing this KOA is we wanted full hookups so I could get caught up on laundry and we wanted an open site where we could get good satellite reception.  Tennessee was playing Oregon this weekend and we didn't want to miss seeing that.  Plus there were some other good college football games this weekend.  We were probably the only people in the campground wearing orange on Saturday. 

Our site #O-6 was long but was a little low on the front but there was adequate space between the sites (more than we usually get at a KOA).

We walked around the campground a few times over the weekend.  This KOA is probably one of the nicest ones we have stayed in. 

UT lost.  :(  But I got caught up on laundry.  We're ready to move to Nehalem Bay which is a whopping 39 miles away.  Woohoo!  We're really moving on down the Oregon Coast now!  :)