RV Parks in Washington

Rainforest on one side of the mountains, sagebrush on the other, Washington is really two states sharing a border along the Cascade crest, and RVers get to work both. The Olympic Peninsula's wild Pacific coastline, Mount Rainier's glaciers, the ferry-laced waters of Puget Sound with the San Juan Islands beyond: the western headliners alone can fill a season. RV parks sit close to all of it, staged along the routes that connect Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, and the Sound.

West of the Cascades, the maritime climate does the landscaping: heavy rainfall, moss-draped forest, green in every direction. Coastal towns like Port Angeles (and Astoria, just across the Columbia) make good staging points, and the Hoh Rainforest rewards anyone willing to drive out to the wet side of the peninsula. Cross the mountains and everything flips: sun, dry hills, the Columbia River Gorge, Spokane's city amenities, and wine country spreading around Walla Walla and Yakima. Two climates, one state, and a completely different camping trip in each.

Accommodations run the full spectrum: private resorts with every hookup and amenity, state park campgrounds, and Forest Service and National Park Service sites where the amenities are trees and quiet. Full hookups are common; primitive sites are there for those who want them. The highway network holds it all together: US-101 loops the Olympic Peninsula, I-90 crosses the mountains, and the scenic byways in between handle rigs of all sizes with less drama than the terrain suggests.