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Moon Pacific Northwest Camping: The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping in Washington and Oregon (Moon Outdoors) | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Stienstra
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 208747
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 9th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 896
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 1566916976
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.9504
EAN: 9781566916974
ASIN: 1566916976
Publication Date: May 10, 2006
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Condition: Clean, unread paperback with modest shelfwear to the covers and a publisher's mark to one side - NICE!
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Product Description
If you are looking for the perfect place to camp in the Pacific Northwest, your trip starts with Moon Pacific Northwest. It's the ideal resource for finding campsites—from secluded alpine hike-in spots to convenient roadside stopovers—throughout the entire state. Join two-time National Outdoor Writer of the Year Tom Stienstra as he brings you: descriptions of camping options, ranging from state park campgrounds to RV parks; complete contact information and summaries of each campground's scenic features, facilities, and nearby recreation opportunities; expert tips on gear, safety, and first aid, weather, low-impact camping, and camping with kids; easy-to-use regional maps, driving directions to each campground, and details on fees, reservation services, and helpful websites.
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 Inconsistent and not enough information July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is not for tent users even though it pretends to be. The focus is mostly on RV's and fishing.
Also, it is frustrating how inconsistent the information is...for example on some campgrounds he mentions how much shade is available but on others he does not. So what am I to assume about the ones that he doesn't mention the shade at all? Also, with some he comments that there are mountain views but others he doesn't. How can the reader know if there are no mountain views or if he just didn't care to mention it that time or didn't have the space to do so in the book? I feel that editing for space has ruined this book.
Don't trust this book! He gives "Rogue Elk Campground" a score of 8 out of 10 for the scenic rating and he doesn't mention it's proximity to a medium traffic highway. We drove all the way there to find that it is basically on the side of the highway. The highway dropped the scenic rating down to a 2. The highway gives Rogue Elk Campground a ton of light and sound pollution and makes it feel unsafe. Stienstra didn't mention any of this.
Untrustworthy, inconsistent book!
The maps and lay out of the book are nice and user friendly though.
 A must have book by a quality writer October 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My husband enjoy going on camping adventures, and we use all of Tom Stienstra's camping books like bibles. I have noted only one mistake on his California book, but on the whole they are useful and informative.
We plan a trip up the California coast to Oregon, then to Washington.
We plan to tent camp all the way using his books. We did it before a few years ago and it worked out great. I strongly recommend this book or any of his books to anyone who wants to have fun, cheap, exciting adventures camping!
Pacific Northwest Camping guide review September 27, 2007
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book arrived in A-1 condition, and in a timely manner. I recommend this seller.
the book to have June 12, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you camp this is the book to have, espcially if you tent camp and want to find all the small campgrounds. I love finding all the tent campgrounds, this is the definite book for the NW.
five stars is not enough for the work that went into thsi book.
Our Favorite Campground Guide to the Pacific Northwest! November 1, 2006
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
As indicated by reviewers of earlier editions, the Moon Outdoors (previously Foghorn Outdoors) series of campground guides is not without flaws. Even so, we know of no directories which do a better job of addressing campground aesthetics than these wonderful guides. In our experience, the look and feel of a campground is often the single greatest factor influencing the quality of a camping experience . . . and the factor totally ignored by nearly all other campground guides.
There are a number of directories which rate facilities, provide directions, tell you how to make reservations and give you an idea of the cost for a night's stay in a specific campground. This series gives similar basic information and then goes beyond that. This guides from Moon Outdoors actually gives you a feel of what it is like to stay in a specific campground - a bit of a narrative description and a "scenic beauty rating" for each campground plus information about nearby recreation opportunities. We like that a lot.
Have we found instances where we liked a campground more or less than the book's author? Of course. Tastes differ and things change over time. Even so, we would rather have an admittedly subjective rating of a campground's intangibles than to have nothing to go on but a recitation of facts and figures.
Are the Moon Outdoors Guides the only ones we use? No. But they are ALWAYS the first place we turn when selecting a destination campground.
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