This post represents another installment in the series documenting our West Coast National Parks trip in the summer of 2017. Alan and I, along with our 18 year old daughter, Kyra, logged a total of 8,513 memorable miles of adventure over the course of five and a half weeks during the months of July and August.
“Think outside the box.” This fairly common expression is probably familiar to most people. It’s a concept that my very logical mind often has difficulty converting into anything useful. But, when it comes to finding good campgrounds, my brain has figured out that it never hurts to think outside the box. And that means . . . power companies. Back in 2021, when Alan and I spent an extended period of time in Idaho, we camped at two facilities run by Idaho Power. (Our campsite at Woodhead Park in Hells Canyon remains one of my all-time favorites.) In researching a good base camp for our visit to Mount Rainier National Park, I discovered that Tacoma Power in Washington operated four facilities with campgrounds – and one of them was less than 20 miles from Mount Rainier National Park.
