Oregon's coast week begins at low tide on the Fort Stevens beach, where the rusted ribs of the Peter Iredale stand out of the wet sand near the mouth of the Columbia. It ends among the sea stacks off Harris Beach at Brookings, with the whole Oregon shoreline in between on the coast highway. Run north to south, it's the trip Willamette Valley families plan their motorhome week around, a different beach outside the door every night.
The coast highway from Fort Stevens to Harris Beach
Fort Stevens is the biggest hookup campground on the coast and the natural first night out of Portland. There's time left over for the rusted ribs of the Peter Iredale on the beach at low tide and a look at the Columbia bar. Its park page lists full-hookup and electrical loops and an RV dump station, but as of September 2026 it also says the South Loops are closed for utility upgrades, so confirm which loop your reservation sits in before counting on sewer at the pad. The Portland RV page builds a shorter north coast loop around this park and Nehalem Bay.
The next night is Pacific City, where the rig sleeps at Cape Kiwanda RV Resort. Just north of it, Cape Lookout State Park is the Three Capes base on the Hillsboro RV page, if you'd rather split the north coast into slower nights.
Farther south, the smaller-vehicle version of this coast stops at Newport, but South Beach lists electrical sites with water and no full-hookup line, so the rig keeps going to Honeyman at Florence. Honeyman has full-hookup sites and an RV dump station, the Oregon Dunes start at the edge of the campground, and it's the coast night closest to Eugene.
Bullards Beach, just north of Bandon, sets its loops in shore pine behind the sand, and Harris Beach finishes the run with sea stacks standing off the beach below the campground. The Bullards Beach and Harris Beach park pages both list full-hookup sites, and Harris Beach closes some of its loops for winter.
The dump stations at Fort Stevens, Honeyman and Harris Beach fall at the start, the middle and the end of the week, so the tanks never have to wait long. Pacific City is the night to ask about hookups when you book it.
Couples working the same shoreline in a smaller rig, South Beach to Harris Beach, will find that trip on the Oregon campervan page. The longer Seattle-to-California coast run passes through on the same highway, and its northern end is on the Washington RV page.
Crater Lake and the southern Cascades
From the rim, Crater Lake is a caldera full of water so blue it barely reads as a lake, with the cone of Wizard Island standing up out of it. The road in is Hwy 62, and the Park Service's RV page has you unhitch anything you're towing at the Mazama Village lot before the climb. The RV lanes at Rim Village fill early, so motorhomes do best getting up to the rim in the morning.
The snow-free weeks are short, and that's when everyone comes, so summer rim days, the campsites in the towns below and the rigs to reach them all book up together. Hold the campsite first. The rig spends its nights at a base below the park, and each RV page that orbits Crater Lake takes a different one:
- Diamond Lake under Mount Thielsen, on the Roseburg RV page
- Collier Memorial State Park and the Williamson River, on the Klamath Falls RV page
- Lost Creek Lake on the Rogue, on the Medford RV page
- Emigrant Lake above Ashland and its Shakespeare festival, on the Ashland RV page
North of the park, Sunriver and La Pine are Central Oregon's own lake week, pine forest with the Cascade Lakes a short drive from the site.
Mount Hood and the Gorge
Portland heads for Mount Hood whenever the weekend is clear, and a rig week under the peak runs between Welches, where Mt Hood Village RV Resort sits on the road up from the city, and the Forest Service loops at Timothy Lake on the mountain's south side. Timothy Lake is the parked-lake half of it, a reservoir with Hood standing over the far shore. Get the length limit from the resort or the Timothy Lake reservation before you choose a motorhome, because the site decides the size of the rig. The Mount Hood RV page plans the week around both, and the Portland page takes the rig east along the Columbia to Memaloose and the Deschutes River State Recreation Area.
Keep going east and the far northeast corner holds Wallowa Lake, a glacial lake with the Wallowa peaks rising straight off its south shore. It's a long haul for a week, and the reward is a parked one. Wallowa Lake State Park runs full-hookup loops with pull-through sites, and its site water shuts off from October to mid-May.
Willamette Valley wine week from Dundee and McMinnville
Out in the Dundee Hills the rig finally stays put, one campground for the week with pinot vines on the slopes and a different tasting room each afternoon. McMinnville adds the Spruce Goose at the Evergreen Aviation museum, and Champoeg State Park on the Willamette is the base the McMinnville RV page builds the week around.
Many of the towables listed around Dundee, and around Sunriver too, are delivered to the site and set up by their owners, so nobody in the family ever tows. Whether a listing does that is up to its owner, and the campground's reservation and rules still apply. For a lake instead of a vineyard, the Salem RV page runs up the Santiam to Detroit Lake under the Cascades.