We wanted to share this campground with our friends on this forum. While its not an "it" spot as in Howard & Linda, it's been a delightful place for us to regroup.

It's on Highway 126 just slightly N. of a little town called Rainbo W and tSW of Eugene.  We noticed quite a few RV Parks and Resortbe just between here and Rainbow, and at least one state park. 

It's hard to describe as I would call it all "cattywhompus" in that sites (to us) are designed backwards, only one person working the desk covering phones, resort check-ins and outs, RV check-ins, and a gift shop. When she was on the phone with a customer the other phone would ring and ring. ( I so wanted to answer it and ask if you could please hold) We thought there was FHU here but were told to just pick a spot and come back and let her know.  When you drive in there is no dedicated RV parking for check in so if you're long like we are and it's a busy Sunday we blocked traffic and had to do a complete circle to be able to access the poorly marked road leading to sites which was sort of behind the check in location. We have electric and water at our site but there is a dump station about a mile down the road at a sister campground, called Yale Camp. We did tour Yale Camp to be sure we would fit in there when we check out tomorrow and its fine for dumping but exceedingly rustic for RVers plus heavy equipment in there is doing something with (adding or removing) huge concrete pillars.

All that said the check-in lady was a gracious former school teacher. The mineral hot pools are awesome, there is incredible landscaping and trails and are a Secret Garden and Asian gardens and ponds and old cabins and lawns and its so peaceful to stroll back there across the river. Truly I've never seen so many beautiful gardens & plantings including in our RV parking area outside of SoCal gardens around mansions or in other formal gardens. The resort is right on the McKenzie River and because we were here when it wasn't very busy, we felt the RVPark was quiet. You should knit's he RV parking is combined witcaeca in band cottage rentals and tent sites but it all sort of works.  It's clean and well maintained but most of the staff seem to be new hires for the summer and not too knowledgeable. 

We went white water rafting, picked up yesterday right at the resort, and it was a fabulous almost 3 hour river run with Class 3 falls at this time of year. I should also mention that one of the mineral Hot spring pools is right up here next to RV Parking so it was perfect after the wet river run.

We've heard this is beautiful in the winter also with the hot mineral pools and snow falling.

It all sounds like a strange combination but we highly recommend it if you're coming thru here in the shoulder seasons (mid-June a shoulder season in Oregon?) and maybe it's not crowded in the summer but our granddaughter in WA is graduating this weekend so we are guessing families travel later in the summer Like July and August In the PNW. Wonderful weather and peaceful and quiet for our stay In mid-June.

Sherry