![]() Where else will you find a permanent weekend retreat or vacation spot that offers such amenities, with a variety of water sports, indoor and outdoor recreation facilities, all within minutes of Portland and Vancouver and at a fraction of the cost of a vacation home.īe sure to visit our sales page for more information on our camp and how to schedule a tour. We have all kinds of wildlife on-site, sometimes within steps of your own secluded campsite. You'll find hiking, swimming, boating, fishing and geocaching. Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway offers the family a full range of leisure activities. We are located approximately one hour from Portland, Oregon. If you are interested in learning more, please call our Sales department at 36. Unfortunately, we do not offer access to the general public. Thank you for joining me on my journey to influence.Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway is a family friendly private, gated membership camping organization that offers an on-site restaurant and spa, indoor pool, outdoor movie theater, putt-putt golf, a chapel and a stunning view of Lake Merwin. How do you relax with your family? Does it involve the great outdoors? Have you gone to a camper’s hideaway? Waking up to this view from the tent will have to suffice for now.Įxciting, right?! Follow my journey to influence the fam to take that big adventure along with a bonus track of tiny house saving and building, and old-fashioned tent camping fun in the mean time! ![]() So, if we get that little bit of retirement planning out of the way, taking a few years off from the regular work world seems a bit more reasonable. See, it’ll be our landing pad when we come to visit (as our house will very likely be rented out) and its part of our retirement plan as well – snow bird place to spend some time in the summers. Our spot has a part to play in my crazy island idea as well…and that tiny house will help seal the deal with the husband. We hope that it will be the future site of the first ‘tiny house’ at the Hideaway. We’re pretty proud of our camp address – 39 on 6. Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway is a non-profit private membership camping club located on 588 acres of forest land surrounding the Lake Merwin Reservoir. And when I say we, most of that was my husband. We’ve spent the last two summers cutting up trees, pushing dirt around, building a shed, and sweeping the forest of our like campsite. Patience and perfectionism paid off! The first photo of our camp site. On Father’s Day 2017 we bought our own little slice of Lake Merwin Camper’s Hideaway paradise, a full three years after our initial tour of the campground. That short list proved to take a very long time to come to fruition. ![]() One that wasn’t developed yet – so that we could build it out exactly as we desired, also – it needed to be close to a bathhouse, as we’d be tenting it for a few years, private with just a few friendly neighbors, and inexpensive – we’d be paying cash. I’ve shared with you that my husband is a planner, but also – a bit of a perfectionist. Breakfast Sandwiches and of course campfire coffee. Mt St Helens, Lake MerwinĪfter all of that I was hooked we needed a spot! A place to get away from the television, the city lights, and the noise a few weekends a month – it wasn’t ‘true’ camping after all, but ‘glamping’ with bathhouses on every block and that restaurant mentioned before that could turn your botched campfire meal into a distant memory. We visited a few campsites that were for sale ate at the onsite restaurant, toured the indoor pool, outdoor mini golf, and saw Lake Merwin in all of her glory. On the way there he was telling me a bit about it – a private campground, where you own your spot, you can make upgrades and renovations and it would only be about an hour from our home in the suburbs of Portland. James mentioned a detour to look at this camping site that he had went to with friends in his early twenties a couple of times. When our youngest daughter, Harper was about a year and a half old, we were driving back from visiting family in Seattle headed home for Portland. Lake Merwin Sunset We like camping.Īt ‘our’ spot. And we’re not very traditional outdoorsy people. I can recall camping with my family once, and it wasn’t at a campground but some big field somewhere.
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