U.S. Military Campgrounds and RV Parks
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Westport Recreation Park, USCG Station Grays Harbor, Westport, WA |
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Editors note: This article was written by Barry Zander and is used by permission.
 With the help of the Military Campground website instructions [which we have updated], our GPS, two locals, a visiting surfer dude and a map provided at the Coast Guard station, it only took us 1½ hours to find the campground once we arrived in this remote, small, quaint, seaside community of Westport on Grays Harbor.
Should be easy to find, since we are looking for the observation platform and/or the tallest lighthouse in Washington State. It wasn’t because we were looking for the Coast Guard Station first, and the signage to the station and the lighthouse is on 105 Spur, not SR 105/Montesano St. The USCG map spells the name of the street we needed “Forest.” The GPS, local map and street signs spell it “Forrest.” But, the trick is that “W. Wilson” becomes Forrest, and our GPS directed us to “East Wilson,” which ends in a parking lot by the ocean. The GPS told us to “turn left off-road,” which would have put us in a grassy marsh.
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Last Updated on Monday, 04 October 2010 13:32 |
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RVing and PCSing Go Hand In Hand |
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Editors note: This article was written in February 2008 by Jim Twamley, www.rvtravel.com, and is used by permission.
 The Gustafson family is RVing from Alaska to Florida during this PCS move. I caught up with them this morning as they were preparing to head out. They spent the night here at the Gila Bend famcamp in Arizona. When they left it was snowing in Elmendorf as they hauled their toyhauler to Haines, Alaska to catch the ferry to Bellingham, Washington. They didn't take off their snow tires until they were well into California. The Gustafson family uses many of the military campgrounds available exclusively to active duty, retired military personnel and DOD employees. The kids love the adventure partly because of the travel but mostly because they have Dad all to themselves for a while. Dad is a busy guy flying F-15 jets and now he's going to be the Vice Wing Commander at the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base. I told the boys they have alligators in Flordia and they thought that was cool and were looking forward to living on the beach. Laughing, one of the boys said, "We're going from cold to warm!" So next time you have a PCS move consider doing it in an RV. I have a special place in my heart for military kids - we raised five of them.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 07 August 2010 10:24 |
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