Top 10 RV Destinations on the West Coast & BC
If you’ve been following our route over the past five months of Season 3 and want to visit some of these spectacular places, below is our Top 10 RV Destinations and our route, ten ????stops at a time. Our Top 10 RV Destinations are in bold.
If you click on the links, Google Maps will open and each point is where we stayed.
Providing our routes is something new…and a LOT of time. So please comment below (the comments are far below) and let us know if you find this helpful or have more ideas.
Section 1: Carefree, AZ to Monterey, CA
- Carefree, AZ
- Joshua Tree National Park, CA
- Palm Springs, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Malibu, CA
- Santa Barbara, CA
- San Louis Obispo, CA & Pismo Beach, CA
- Paso Robles, CA (Rio Seco Winery through Harves Host)
- Monterey, CA
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Section 2: Monterey, CA to Trinadad, CA
- Monterey, CA
- Big Sur, CA (Day trip from the North)
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Los Altos, CA
- Marin, CA (San Fransisco, CA)
- Napa Valley, CA
- Calistoga, CA
- Anderson Valley, CA (Hanley Cellars Harvest Host)
- Ft. Bragg, CA
- Eureka, CA
- Trinidad, CA
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Section 3: Trinadad, CA to Portland, OR
- Trinadad, CA
- Crescent City, CA
- Grants Pass, OR
- Crater Lake, OR
- Toketee Falls
- Bend, OR
- Erickson Aircraft Collection (Harvest Hosts)
- Portland, OR
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Section 5: Portland, OR to Tofino, BC
- Portland, OR
- Tree to Tree Adventure Park
- Cannon Beach, OR
- Mt. Rainier National Park (We didn’t stop, but really wanted to)
- Sumner, WA – 4th of July
- Seattle, WA
- Anacortes, WA (Took ferry from here to Vancouver Island)
- Sidney, BC
- Victoria, BC
- Tofino, BC
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Section 6: Tofino, BC to Grand Teton National Park
- Tofino, BC
- Ladysmith, BC
- Campbell River, BC
- Nanaimo, BC (Took ferry to Point Roberts)
- Vancouver, BC
- Whistler, BC
- Coeur d’Alene, ID
- Banff, Alberta
- Calgary, Alberta
- Grand Teton National Park, WY – Eclipse dry camping site (43.7638, -110.5538)
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Section 7: Grand Teton National Park to
- Grand Teton National Park, WY
- Lake Tahoe, CA (Truckee, CA)
- Lee Vinning, CA (Yosemite Valley National Park)
- Las Vegas, NV
- Carefree, AZ (Back “Home”)
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My fingers are tingling! If this was helpful, comment below. We want to hear from you! Also, jump on our email list as we’re going to be sending even more helpful ideas to “Keep Your Daydream”. And watch the video that explains this route. It’s important to know that holidays, fires, our real job and many other factors determine our route and where we stay. This isn’t the “perfect route”, just the route we spontaneously created on the road. Remember, Season 3 was about “No Reservations” and it seemed to work well.
Hi,
Great addition. I will use this next summer. . .very helpful.
By the way….you have a typo…..it is San Luis Obispo.
Joy & Ticket
Love this!! Thanks so much Marc & Tricia for posting this information! You have no idea how helpful this is in planning your daydream!!
This is BIG, what an outstanding effort, the results show. You guys have nailed it, For RV’ers, this is part of it, is too help each other and share what we know, the places we gone. Thank you.
I have enjoyed your videos. One subject you might wish to address would be that if mitor home with air brakes and using a Air Force one proportional braking system. Recently put one on our 3/4 ram 4wd diesel and dynamax dx3 37bh. Little pricy but really good. Not something I would recommend doing by a layman. This really should be professionally installed, but worth the cost. Running it with a blue of 10,009 draw bar. Though you guys do in truck addressing this might not be possible for you guys
Best wishes from Texas to you guys
Wayne Clamp
Wclamp@aol.com
This was very helpful, you showed us places we wouldn’t have thought to visit. I hope two years and 110 days ( not that I’m counting) goes by fast! Going to look at a Vilano 320gk as soon as it’s on market.
Very Helpful! Thanks so much! Is there going to be a Part 2 of Solar??
Nice job! We are planning a similar trip.
Is there going to be a solar–part 2?
This is the best, my wife and I are trying to leave Florida on 5/13/18 on this route. The info is like gold. This is our third trip and having this info is going to save us hours of time doing research. Thank you .
This is fantastic. New RVers trying to decide where to go on way to OR this summer.
Will be checking out more of ur top 10 seasons.
Thank you for putting all of this together …. it’s very helpful! Take care, Sean and LInda Wasson
Thank you for taking the time to do this. We live in So Cal and just bought a new 23’ Lance Travel trailer. We want to spend three weeks next summer going to Vancouver and come back through Wyoming. This gives us some great ideas!!
Thanks for your comments about B.C. Most RV travel blogs and you tube videos exclude Canada- we appreciate that you did share our wonderful province. I now feel part of the KYD family.
Wishing a pleasant journey.
A Canadian Fan
Jim
Wow! We love the detailed information, and Thank You! Thank You! for sharing with your followers! We are impressed with the work you put into your blog and your You Tube features. You guys are great, your kids are well adjusted and happy, and your entire operation is wholesome and a wonderful inspiration to the rest of us. Again, thanks, and keep up the great work you do.
This is so helpful! We are trying to plan a trip starting in Florida and heading out west – thinking up to Atlanta in June, on to Nashville, then west to St. Louis, Kansas City, CO, MT, Banff, then down the west coast and along the southern US border back to Florida during winter. Would love your help and insight for good spots with kids!!
This is a great resource. Did you only stay at the Cannon Beach resort for that jaunt? Looks incredible. thank you for putting that together.
4th of July in Sumner, Wa. Sure hope it was on Lake Tapps!!!! Our home lake.
Great to see your excellent commentary on traveling along the west coast. Next time stop in to see us at the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California You can’t drive to the islands, but you can take boats (or your own boat) there. There is great hiking and camping on the islands — called “America’s Galapagos.”
We just got our Grand Design Imagine and are so excited to get out on the road. This post has been so helpful to plan some short trips and get started.
These route suggestions are timeless! We continue to lean on your learnings and ideas. Don’t ever stop traveling or we may run out of ideas!
We have followed you every week since we bought our 36 foot Montana. Going through some of your older episodes to see what RV park you stayed in around Banff?
This is soooo helpful. We want to do this trip next spring. Thank you.