Hood River camping

[rigitrite]

Can you still camp for free at Avery? (Washington side of the river just upstream from the Dalles dam.)
I used to camp there all the time, you can even launch and sail there if there's wind.

[isobars]

Yep, for up to 14 days in a 30-day period, but ya gotta be a choo-choo train junkie and insensitive to poison oak (unless "they've" cleaned it out) to like it there.

[bingenschool]

We've got $19 hostel beds in large rooms with private partitioning. Just bring your own sleeping bag and pillow.
Alumni rates ( long often returning friends) are as low $14. With that you get hot showers, access to the Gym, Television Lounge, Kitchen, laundry, plenty of storage options, and conversation with guests from around the world ( 53 Countries and counting)
The Bingen School Inn /Columbia Gorge Hostel,,,Gorge Home to the Worlds Windblown sin ce 1988.
Cedar & Humboldt Streets, Bingen Washington (check In hours are from 6-9Pm)

[boggsman1]

This was a great read. What started as a simple question turned into ISO's guide for insomniac windsurfers....funny. Where in HR can I get loaded for $15 and still make the dawn patrol at Arlington?

[mchaco1]

[tetiaroaxx]

I, personally, loved the trains when I van camped in HR. At worst you would wake, maybe once or twice, just enough to have some cool "laying on the tracks" kinda funky half-dream. With plugs, just a warm rumble.

But what earplugs didn't filter out was the high-pitched, raspy, urinal-cracking voices of the 5am jewelry/real-estate rants of wrinkled up HR Trophy Wives, standing around my van scratching their Virginias for what seemed like an eternity. It was a problem from street to pit to post.

It may be illegal to van camp in town, but I never heard of a cop bust. It's as if they leave the Trophy Wives and (as mentioned by iso) local managerial wimps (in commercial lots) to do the dirty work, which they do so well.

By the way, don't even think of getting drunk or 'mamas little helpered' in your ride, even if you throw your keys in the bush (or bush). Unless you have a paid camping site, you will be charged.

For those, I found Tuckers the best. I forget the names of all those state places (avery, melamose?) because they always had kinda provincial motorhome types walking around, scratching their Virginias (see Trophy Wives above) or Peeneyes depending on their sex, which is impossible to tell at best. They get dug in with their dogs and walking miscarriages. Tuckers will be busy, but you will be happy to see the Virginia-scratching there, if you be so lucky. Almost guaranteed to be some cross-border Rivergina scratch on some hot dumb canadien, wandering around aimlessly looking for 'her friends', a major canadien passtime/handicap. It's biased to women numbers because same would be reluctant to van camp on some 'road, then another road, then a turn in the bush' as they would surely run into some mountain-man-wannabe (see below). Great showers at Tuckers, but they run out of hot at night (or turn it low to damper the 'turning' - see Japaneze - yes it can be hardon a dude watching all that scratching).

Now if you do like the sounds and smells of mountain men, then a good trip to - hey now I remember Avery? Yeah previous poster was right. They don't play no instruments, just so y'know. If you saw one a fraction as talented as the Deliverance kid, you would be truly blessed. Same high-pitched voices as HR Trophy Wives (never figured out why, that, withda MMs - hafta Wiki it). They also scratch (hey, doesn't everyone when they camp) but it would be wise to cover your anneye when they do. Good conversation like on how they would bury a body. No sh! I had to listen to that tunnels dude one night.

Lastly, get some wingmen to camp with. A few rides will deter some trouble (not Trophy Wives though, see 'Gravel Pit').

[isobars]

[tetiaroaxx]

Oh, and if you do hear some 24h slappin' in the camper next to you, relax.

It may sound like some Mountain Man turning 'on you', vaseline and all, but it's likely just some old geezer typing away. Furiously.

Although pretty much the same thing, now that I think of it.

[coboardhead]

For several years, I would buy a fishing parking pass that allowed "camping" on the Klikitat River near Lyle. It was great for Doug's and the Hatchery. I think a season pass was $25. I don't know if these are still available. There were some good campsites several miles out of Lyle.

I have an eleven year old Bimmer. Best car I have ever owned. (including Subie that needed a suspension rebuild at 50k).

[mchaco1]