This is the longest leg of this trip at 366 miles. Google maps estimated 7 hours but when all was said and done, it took us over 8 hours to get to our final destination. The issue was not the drive cause it was straight up highway 101. By the time we got to Newport I was looking forward to getting the fiver unhooked and relaxing with a cold one or two. Alas, it was not to be. We had reservations at Harbor Village RV Park for 5 nights. I found this park on the internet and it was advertised to be across the Embarcadero Resort, Restaurants, and Marina. Lets just say that they chose to embellish the truth a bit. It’s kind of what they said except it’s located in an industrial park area and not the tourist locations.
view transit photos to Newport
So we get to the RV Park and the first thing I don’t see is the 104 wooded spaces but I do see sites nestled in hillsides. They had us scheduled for a site that was not much bigger than my GMC Sierra crew cab with the hookups on the wrong side of the fiver. So, I go to the office and inform them that this won’t work. She offers me their biggest site near the entrance but that would mean that I would be stepping out of the fiver and be on the driveway. I also quickly learned that about 2/3 of the park is occupied by full time residents. I’m glad we decided that this will not work and even though we didn’t know what we would be doing or where we would be going I decided to get a refund. To their credit I will say that they gladly refunded my fees.
So it’s now after 5 PM and we just decided to head north of Newport on Highway 101 to see what we could find. The chances of finding a Walmart to park for the night was not going to happen. To make a long story short, we were stuck in a traffic jam due to road work and we started calling anyone and everyone but no one was open cause their office hours are 8 to 5. Karen then found an Indian casino in Lincoln City and I called the Chinook Winds Casino Resort to see if they had an RV Park. Turns out they did but it was full. They referred us to the Devils Lake RV Park. We called them at 5:55 PM and it turned out to be open till 6 PM. The lady was really nice and said she would stay open until we arrived. It really was nice of her to do that for us. The park has 80 paved, 80 feet in length, RV sites. We were assigned one of the 47 pull throughs with free Wi-Fi, great cable TV, and the restrooms/showers are right across the street. I setup my Winegard Carryout and it found all 3 DishNetwork satellites in no time. I’m really liking this little guy and we’re trying to come up with a name for him/her. The pull throughs are kind of narrow and they could have made each space just a bit wider. Beggars can’t be choosy and all’s well that ends well.
view photos of Devils Lake RV Park site
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