Explore...

Read and rate Travel Journal Entries for Rufus, Oregon, United States

Jul 11, 2012 - Rufus

Before we reached the John Day Dam, we crossed the river on the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge to Briggs Junction and continued eastbound on I-84 to the Rufus Army Corp of Engineers campground. The campsites were small and a little tight for us big rigs, but we made it. We had a nice view of the John Day River with 30amps to run our A/C since it was 105 outside. We were going to stay for 2 nights to enjoy the water, but not in this heat. Tomorrow we are going to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ahead of schedule to escape this heat.

 Jump to full entry

Aug 23, 2010 - Le Page campground, Oregon

An awesome find! A gorgeous campground on the Columbia river. We had a river front site -- if you took 10 steps out the RV door, you'd fall down into the river! See pictures (most taken from the RV front door). Jack enjoyed the swim beach, biking around the loop, and flying his kite. We did a quick trip into town for a few groceries (and beverages for Hood to Coast).

 Jump to full entry

May 9, 2009 - Dams, Stonehenge, Museum and Space

To visit this area we used the small Corp of Engineer LaPage campground on the confluence of the John Day River and the Columbia River. We were lucky to get a site right on the river. A great place for R&R. Our first day of exploring the area we stopped first at the John Day Dam, just west of our campground, on the Columbia River. Here we learnt how they had built diversions for salmon both going up the river at the spawning season and back to the sea of the young salmon. We then crossed the river into Washington State and stopped at their...

 Jump to full entry

Apr 1, 2008 - Rufus, Oregon

Today we traveled, oh, maybe 15 or 20 miles; very strenuous driving! Actually, we left the Deschutes River State Park and went further east on the Columbia River to stay at a Corps of Engineers Park. It wasn’t far away, but we like the Corps parks and this one didn’t open for the season until April 1 or we would have been here yesterday. As it is, we are the first and only campers so far this year, and we are totally enjoying a relaxing day all by ourselves. Lots of hiking, dog Frisbee and wood gathering, I washed the car and the front of...

 Jump to full entry


Advertisement
OperationEyesight.com