R-pod Owners Forum : Thousand Trails Long Beach WA https://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Camping Adventures : Thousand Trails Long Beach WA Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:12:11 +0000 Sat, 03 Nov 2018 22:27:15 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 https://www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12379 R-pod Owners Forum https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.rpod-owners.com/ Thousand Trails Long Beach WA : This is such great information... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12379&PID=117640#117640 Author: Live2Camp
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Posted: 03 Nov 2018 at 10:27pm

This is such great information including the photos, thank you! Can't wait to take RPod to this area. Haven't been there in too long in any case. ]]> Sat, 03 Nov 2018 22:27:15 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12379&PID=117640#117640 Thousand Trails Long Beach WA : Originally posted by offgridI... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12379&PID=117628#117628 Author: tcj
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Posted: 03 Nov 2018 at 5:10pm

Originally posted by offgrid

I recall that my grandparents deed went to mean high tide and their beach and property (very unlike the OBX which is eroding) was growing rapidly due to sand depositing from the Columbia. Do you know if that's still true there?


Yes the the beach is growing quite a bit.  The beaches started growing due to sand deposition for quite a ways on the land side of  both the north and south jettys after they were constructed in the late 1800s.  At a couple view points along the highway between Long Beach and cape Disappointment there are before and after photos showing how much the land has grown.

At the North end of the Peninsula it not only has grown but in the past 20 years it has transitioned from sand dunes to a pine and spruce forest.
 
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Posted: 03 Nov 2018 at 4:54pm

Thanks for posting. My grandparents had a place on Long Beach near Ilwaco. I fondly recall clamming and fishing there as a kid. With long flat drivable beaches and an old lighthouse it reminds me of a West Coast Outer Banks. 

I recall that my grandparents deed went to mean high tide and their beach and property (very unlike the OBX which is eroding) was growing rapidly due to sand depositing from the Columbia. Do you know if that's still true there?
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Posted: 03 Nov 2018 at 4:27pm

When we bought our R-pod 180in June this year our dealer gave us a one year membership in Thousand Trailscampgrounds.  A couple weeks ago wefinaly decided to try it out.

The Thousand Trails RV parkin Seaview right next to Long Beach on the southwest Washington coast is the onewe picked to try out the full hookup style of travel trailer camping.  It was nice to not worry about running out ofwater and be able to use the microwave oven.

Long Beach is on a longnarrow peninsula just a couple miles north of the fishing town of Ilwaco andthe mouth of the Columbia River. It is the only place in Washington where motorvehicles are allowed on the beach which is 28 miles long.  The Discovery Trail is a paved trail right along the beach a short walk from the campground.  It runs eight miles south to the lewis andclark interpretive center on the bluffs above the Columbia river bar.

It would have been a greatplace to have our bikes but we didn’t,  so drove a couple miles each day to our dailyadventures.  Washington State parksDiscovery pass is required for the state park campgrounds and day use sitesclose by.  There are quite a few sitesrelated to the history of Lewis and Clark.

 

Our Camp

 

 

North Head Lighthouse inservice 1898   Two miles north of CapeDisappointment Lighthouse in service 1856. It was built to inhance navigation due to the many shipwrecks off theColumbia River Bar...The “Graveyard of the Pacific.

 

Gun turret and bunker used inWW One and WW two.  At Cape DisappointmentLewis and Clark interpretive center.

 

 

 

The Black band is to helpdifferentiate from North head.

Bronze replica of Pine Treeon the Discovery trail.  Furthest extentof lewis and Clark’s travel.  “November19, 1805.  Clark, York and 10 othersproceeded north of the cape approximately four miles before returning to theirStation Camp.  Clark wrote, I proceededup the course and marked my name & the day of the month on a pine tree.”

Side walk at Station campState park campground.  Each concreteplank is etched with information from one place to another.  Distance to the mouth of the Missourie,Latitude and remarks.  “Here the firstrecorded vote by a Woman and a Black man occured when Sacagawea and York had avoice in where the Corps would winter.” 

 

 

South Jetty on the ColumbiaRiver Bar

 

Breakers on the South jetty.

 

Cargo Ship just finishedcrossing the Columbia River bar.  Thelittle white spec to the left off the ship’s bow is the River Pilots boat.  Ships crossing the bar are required to waitfor a licensed Columbia River bar Pilot to board the ship and steer it acrossthe bar.

 

 

Whale bones along theDiscovery trail.

 

A kite festivel in LongBeach.

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