
#Boondocking oregon dunes full#
Which might explain why the local BLM hasn’t made a big push to move them on.Īs for us, we didn’t stick around near long enough! We would have stayed our full 14 days here if we hadn’t already agreed to meet family further down the coast. They all kept to themselves, watched the sunsets and were quiet. Some of them looked like they had been here far longer than the 14 day stay limit. While we had just learned of this wild camping gem…the locals have know about it for a long while. There was a fair population of people in tents and a couple of other RV’ers.

They did warn us we wouldn’t be the only campers out there and once we arrived, we understood what they were getting at. We found this spot listed on UltimateCampgrounds(one of our favorite road trip apps) but we stopped in at the BLM office in Coos Bay to get the scoop on the area. There’s nothing like throwing on a high neck sweater, pouring a 12 year whiskey, settling in at the captains chair (of the RV) and yelling “all hands on deck” at the boat ahead. One afternoon is filled with warm sunshine and blue skies while the next feels like a scene written by Hemingway. The Oregon coast is such an unpredictable place in the fall. Every evening we had the most spectacular show right out our front door! Bastendorff Beach is just two miles from Sunset Bay State Park and has fantastic sunset views with Cape Arago Lighthouse off in the distance.

We finally hit the jackpot in Coos Bay, OR with this little speck of land owned by the BLM.
