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Grace & Jasper Lameyer

I have been here several times with my children. You will see pictures of when we took advantage of the free camping on the far end of the park. You do need to drive slow or have a car with good clearance because the roads are washed out, not maintained and if you are driving a car, you could get stuck. There are ancient Native American lithographs in the rocks, and if you’re there in the summer, you can catch geckos and lizards sending themselves. A nature Hike presented by one of the Rangers in the welcome center is always a great idea and free! There is really fun fishing and ancient railroad bridge that was decommissioned years ago. You can hike across horses trails good for, hiking, bike, riding or horseback riding. Very clean bathrooms! No litter makes this park un to most because you won’t find it swarming with vagrants and needles.

This is the one hike off 101 I tell everybody coming to the Oregon Coast they MUST take the time for. There is a great covered lookout where you can watch beautiful waves crashing in a cove before heading in to a PNW hike sure to make you think Sasquatch herself is following you. My two young kids and little dog did just fine for a quick 30 minutes in then out to have lunch at a parking lot picnic table.

My kids and I hike this one weekly. If you keep driving down past the Centennial turnoff and water treatment, there's a newly constructed mountain bike trial area at the Auger Falls walking path.

My 7 year old son and I did this trek in the late summer, when the river wasn't running so fast. Had we been here sooner, we may have tried, but I would have been on my own doing the work on the up-river part. As it was, he wasn't much help. ☺️ This is something really fun and easy to do with youngsters. Also, if you go into the Twin Falls Parks website, you can find group paddles where it's only $20 for two hours of kayak rental. We only stayed with the group for put in, then went off on our own.

It was VERY windy when we decided to hike up the rock, but going up is kinda part of the experience. Had we decided to stay down and just photograph and gawk, we would have been robbed of another stunning perspective from the top. Careful, though, loose shake makes for a treacherous walk up, although short. Don't bring old dogs.