Armitage Park Campground - Eugene, OR

Armitage Park Campground, site #16

My years in Sea Scouts, both as a youth and later as a leader, associated Memorial Day weekend for me with being away from home and near the water.  In recent history, whether it was aboard our Catalina 30 sailboat or our Bayliner 3870 motor yacht, the holiday weekend meant cruising.  Today, our Catalina Capri 22 sailboat doesn't lend itself to the type of cruising Laura wants to do, so we took to the road this year to rendezvous with my sister Monica at Armitage Park Campground in Eugene, Oregon.

We stayed in site #16, and Monica and Linda stayed in site #14.

Armitage Park Campground is just stunning, both in terms of its beauty and in its high-level of maintenance.  I applaud the Lane County vision that preserved so much natural charm in an urban area.

Monica and Linda's 2005 Beaver motorhome tucked away in site #14.

The spacing between sites is very generous.  The park's staff has also constructed and planted raised planters to promote more foliage, and to discourage guests from walking over all the landscaping.

Traveling with two Golden Retrievers and a cat.

Monica and Linda had been to the campground before, so it was a pretty safe recommendation when they suggested we meet up on Memorial Day for five nights together.  Online reviews, combined with a Google Earth flyover had Laura and I looking forward to the adventure.

Looking across pull-thru site #15

We arrived at the campground on Monday and departed on Saturday.  Within the park, there is a lot to do, from walks and bicycle rides to entertaining one's canine at the sizeable fenced in dog park, to fishing and boating in the river.

Looking toward sites #18 and #19.

The RV pads are level, and both deep and wide.  The pedestals have 20, 30, and 50 amp power, water, and cable TV.  At the north end of the park where we were is located a laundry and showers.

On Foot

The campground is very walkable with paved paths and roads to take the adventurous to all kinds of beautiful spots.  I love walking beneath a canopy of trees, and Armitage doesn't disappoint.  In the photo below, you can see the path at campground level, and the path to the right that runs along the river's edge.

The paved trail near the river.

Lots of mature trees in the campground.

Lush describes the park.  From the big trees and ferns to the moss covered picnic tables and bright colored grass, the place shouts Northwest.

Classic Northwest.

Overlooking the boat ramp from the paved path.

Boat Ramp.

Laura and I really enjoyed getting out and walking around the campground.  While the white-noise of I-5 was off in the distance, what you really noticed was the sound of water and the birds in the trees.

Laura enjoying the lower paved path closer to the water's edge.

The remainder of the trip, I'd be working from the motorhome.  Once again my mobile office would afford me a pretty awesome view out the windows.

Live well, Laugh often, Love much