Silver Falls State Park

     Silver Falls State Park is another park that I've visited several times over the years to hike it's miles of trails and have never camped here.  I've been missing out.  There are two loops to the campground.  An older loop in which the trees are tall and numerous almost blocking the sun from hitting the campground, while the new loop has more open sites with smaller trees and lots of grass.  Both are great.  The campground also has several cabins as well.

        Our visit to the park started on a very rainy Friday morning.  On the way, we stopped and replace the deep cycle batteries in our coach.  Then headed up a windy twisty road to the campground.  We set up camp in the rain, not a big deal with our RV.  On our first walk around the park with the dogs, Jackie noticed a young woman struggling to set up a large tent in the rain.  She offered to help and the three of us got her set up.  She had a friend showing up several hours later and I guess, setting up camp was up to her.  Saturday after walking the dogs we went to town to find a bakery.  No luck, but we had a great lunch at Mac's in Silverton.

     Sunday it was lightly raining but decided to go hiking the falls trails anyway.  The weather cleared up some and we had a great hike. However, shortly after we ate dinner on Sunday night it started to rain, and rain hard all night.

      We returned to the campground a couple of years later.  This time, we volunteered to camp host for a month.  It was April and the first two weeks was rain and more rain, but the second couple of weeks the weather was better.  Camp hosting turned out to be a lot of fun and we wound up volunteering for another couple of months at another Oregon State Park.  As hosts, we were tasked with cleaning sites after people leave and before the next folks arrived.  I wish that all campgrounds took the time to prepare sites.  I can't say enough good things about state parks.  We've had similar experiences at state parks all across the country.