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51st Stop - Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park (Klamath, CA)

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Blog Post #62 - Written April 13, 2026 Stay: September 12-14, 2025 So, when people talk about visiting the Redwoods, you might need to ask "which ones?",  because there is ONE Redwood National Park and THREE Redwood State Parks.  They are all part of one system, but I now know there are many different areas to visit.   Our first Redwood stop was Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.  We pulled into our campground, which definitely had posted old pictures on their website.  It was mostly vacant and almost looked abandoned, except for the construction crew that was borrowing the campground office.  in fact, you had to drive through the active construction site to get into the campground; Gary thought I had led us astray with this one haha.  Luckily, there were a few other campers that showed us the ropes and shared the best "hot tip" ever: to check out the mouth of the Klamath river (read to the bottom to find out why!). We felt a little bad for the un...
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50th Stop - Bandon-By-The-Sea (OR)

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Blog Post #61 - Written April 10, 2026 Stay: September 11, 2025 We stayed one night in our final Oregon Coast city, Bandon-By-The-Sea.  We headed out early in the morning to check out the beach before we had to leave the slightly sketchy, very tight campground.  But it had an apple tree with almost ripe apples, so the kids enjoyed it. Bandon Beach was a long stretch of undisturbed sand with massive rock outcroppings along the shore.  Gary and the kids climbed to massive heights to check out the views.        The other side of the beach held an enormous rock with its own ecosystem revolving round it.  While all the other rocks were barren, this one had fun tunnels through it that led to walls of mussels, sea anemones, fish, and sea urchins.  We hit this rock right as the tide was coming in, so we quickly ran back around the rock.  And we would have successfully done so moderately dry, but D decided she didn't want to keep running as ...
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