Oregon is Motorhome Rally Central!

Oregon is Rally Central! Come Discover Why!

Oregon, the RV Friendly State, has the best offering of rally locations in the country. Beautiful resorts and campgrounds are popular sites of RV Rallies…OR sometimes fairgrounds…sometimes casinos…you just never know where a rally might be held, but one thing’s certain, you will have FUN at a rally in Oregon! Whether it’s meeting with a couple hundred RVers at the Linn County Fair & Expo Center in the south Willamette Valley, or enjoying full hookups at the Mill Casino Hotel & RV Park on the coast, or attending a huge FMCA or Good Sam event in Redmond with 2,000 other RVers, the message is getting out: Oregon is Rally Central!

Do you love making new friends and renewing friendships made during your travels? Enjoy exploring the sights, sounds, and flavors of new destinations in the company of like minded recreation enthusiasts? Come to Oregon to explore the beauty of forests, rivers, ocean and sand, verdant valleys and high desert vistas! Wind down Oregon backroads on a winery tour, rediscover Oregon’s historic covered bridges, take an Oregon country tour, hike to waterfalls, play on the beach, visit lava beds, and discover this state’s natural wonders. There is no better place to meet new friends, enjoy the unspoiled natural wonders, and roadside attractions, wineries, eateries, and RV-related businesses found only in Oregon than at a rally!

Oregon is also an RV mecca of highly qualified service specialists, dealers, and RV related suppliers. It is the place to get your RV renovations, service and maintenance handled. It’s also the place to come when it’s time to shop for a new coach. Or get new tires, batteries or perhaps a whole new exterior paint job. What you may not realize is that you can arrange for most of these services when attending one of the many RV rallies and shows held annually across the state. I’ve polled thousands of motorcoachers through rally  surveys over a couple decades and here’s why they say they attend rallies:

•                 Meet new people, socialize, learn, play games, and have a great time

•                 Spend time with friends met parked next to me at rallies

•                 Attend informative seminars re my motorhome

•                To take classes on everything from fly-tying to beading and Swedish weaving

•                 Get RV repairs done at a special rally discount

•                 Shop for a new RV

•                 Partake of great evening entertainment and meals

•                 To shop the vendor exhibitors’ area

Most RVers note they especially enjoy learning more about their coach, its systems and components and its care and maintenance.

Whatever your reasons may be for attending a rally, you are bound to have a wonderful tine. Let me use as an example the Annual Oregon CCFI Friendship Rally always held near where all Country Coach motorhomes were originally built in Junction City. This year it is being held in North Bend, OR August 22-27^th at the Mill Casino RV Park. For me, that first day of arrival at rally site is the best! You spot rigs you recognize pulling in; you greet old friends; you help first-timers get parked and oriented. Many had gotten there ahead of the rally start date to have a few days to get settled before the rally started.  The excitement builds. It’s getting better and better! From that first welcome to the last goodbye at rally end, it is go, go, go! Technical RV seminars, lifestyle classes, roundtable discussions, livability sessions, exercise and optional offsite activities, sightseeing, exploring the area, and crafts and cooking classes are usually intermingled in a robust rally schedule. Some rallies offer a tour of homes where certain rally attendees open their homes on wheels so people can walk through to get ideas and to see how other people live on the road! Social hours, great meals and evening entertainments are also staples of a busy rally.

During your time in Oregon, build in extra days for touring many interesting industries and attractions just off rally site. You may find yourself so busy that you won’t turn on that TV for days – unplugging from the bad news and plugging into this special group of like-minded recreation enthusiasts. In the evening, sit coach-side enjoying a cool breeze and good friends. 

Like your RV adventures, you’ll want to travel through a rally at your own pace. Immerse yourself in as much of the busy rally schedule as you wish, knowing that you can come back next year to the annual Friendship Rally in Oregon and try some of the things you missed this year!  

 Sign up for the CCFI Annual Friendship Rally at www.CountryCoachFriendsIncorporated.com. Learn more about Oregon, the RV friendly state at www.Come2Oregon.com

 I am already nearing 25 years in the highline motorcoach industry. From 1992 to 2009 I was with Country Coach, where I was Senior Manager of Marketing and supervised the Rally Team, the Owners Club office, and production of the award winning “Country Coach Destinations” magazine when the company closed in 2009. These days I assist  Premier RV Services (Junction City, OR) while promoting CCFI--the friendliest club I've ever known-- in many different ways as my time allows.