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Along Oregon's southern coast you'll find miles of beach for communal use and many gorgeous state park and Rv parks within a short walk of the Pacific Ocean. From Umpqua Lighthouse State Park in the north to Port of Brookings Harbor Beachfront Rv Park not far from the California state line there are fullness of campground choices. After setting up camp you can tour historic lighthouses, hike scenic coastal trails, surf the waves, study tide pools, or relax on the beach.

With scenery dominated by towering dunes and a lighthouse, Umpqua Lighthouse State Park offers a nice campground next to stunning freshwater Lake Marie. You can fish, paddle a canoe, or enjoy swimming from a small, sandy beach. You're also right next to Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.

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Are you customary with yurts? They are reservable soft-sided round cabins. Many Oregon state parks have them but Umpqua Lighthouse State Park offers six "deluxe" yurts faultless with kitchens, refrigerators, microwave ovens, televisions with Dvd players, and bathrooms and showers that sleep seven. This park even has 20 full-hookup Rv sites. Be sure and visit the lighthouse, which has an unusual red and white lens and is open for tours May 1 - October 30 (see cool pictures of the lighthouse lens at Campground-Search.com).

Only two miles away is William M. Tugman State Park. There are more campsites ready here including 16 accepted yurts. Unlike at Lake Marie which allows only non-motorized boating, the brush-lined shore of Eel Lake has steep underwater drop-offs exquisite for bass boats and bass fishing. The lake has a good habitancy of largemouth bass and other species including crappie, rainbow trout, steelhead, and coho salmon (which must be released).

Further down the coast you'll study one of the most scenic locations on the Oregon coast at Sunset Bay State Park. It has towering sea cliffs and an inviting, sandy bayside beach. A number of hiking trails connect Sunset Bay with close-by Shore Acres and Cape Arago State Parks. Hiking the trails will let you feel spectacular ocean views from atop the rugged cliffs with views of Gregory Point and the Cape Arago lighthouse.

If you prefer less-crowded camping continue south to Cape Blanco State Park. It has extra-large, private, sheltered campsites, hiking trails and appealing tours of a 19th century lighthouse and the historic Hughes House. Equestrians love this park; you can bring your horse and enjoy seven miles of horse trails and the facilities in the horse camp.

Humbug Mountain State Park includes one of the Oregon coast's top headlands; Humbug Mountain towers at 1,756 feet, and the campground enjoys some of the warmest weather on the Oregon coast due to the safety of its surrounding terrain. Beloved recreational activities at this park are windsurfing, scuba diving and particularly hiking to the top of Humbug Mountain.

Harris Beach State Park is also very scenic and its sandy beaches interspersed with eroded sea stacks are just waiting to be photographed. The park also has fullness of nautical vertebrate viewing opportunities with gray whales on their winter and spring migrations, harbor seals, and California sea lions.

The southern Oregon coast is truly spectacular. The campgrounds and lighthouses mentioned are some of the most scenic and Beloved but there are fullness of other communal and inexpressive campgrounds in the region just waiting to be discovered.

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