I had heard about this place being very good for many years and had driven by it a lot but never had the opportunity to stop. Well, we did yesterday. The inside is just beautiful. A rustic ambiance with a warm fire going and a Christmas tree that was just beautiful.

It was 7:00am and we were promptly seated by the window with an awesome view of the creek. Bird-feeders hang outside and a lot of special touches to the place. The main attraction was the portion of the food!! I ordered a cinammon roll and it was huge!! Two huge slabs of butter on top. I quickly divided it into two portions. I ordered the eggs, sausage and slap-jack breakfast. I would say about eight eggs,huge sausage patties and the slap-jacks were larger than a dinner plate. We quickly learned that this was the way the lumberjacks used to eat. They consumed 7.000-9,000 calories each day before heading off to work.

If you decide to stop here, just be prepared for very large portions of food!! If you want to learn more about the place, you can google Camp 18 and go from there!!! It's worth a stop just to look around at all the old mining and logging equipment. Very interesting and fun!!! ***kim***

Shall we all have a contest guessing where this place is? Maybe in the Ozarks? How about in upstate Maine? Or maybe it is in the Rockies?

It sure would be nice if people could at least mention a state in their posts if not a more specific location.
If we all knew about this place already, there wouldn't be much point in posting about it would there?

Sorry, it's just that these posts that act like everybody is supposed to know what or where you're talking about are starting to get to me.

Silly, Patrick - Camp 18 is neither in the Rockies nor the Ozarks. It's in the costal range!

(I've never been to Camp 18 either, but I have heard from others that it's an interesting place to stop. Maybe next time I pass it...)

Andrew

Andrew,

What a great response to Patrick's post. Might I ask which coastal range you are referring too? You have heard of the Atlantic and Pacific I assume. There are also many states involved on each ocean.

Curious

Don't you guys get around? Camp 18 is the ONLY place worth a stop on your way to the beach, or coming back to the city on a Sunday morning. By the way, I live in Texas if that helps.

By the way, I've eaten at a fantastic little rustic place that sounds quite similar. It is simply fantastic, and it's called Andy's, worth a stop whenever you are near or worth a detour if you are within a hundred miles or so. Now, you have to guess what state it's in and what range it's near. This is a fun game. Let's all post about places and see how many people can figure out where they are.

Binto a lot of Andy's, from the golf range to the sandhills to Winter Haven. But their is only one Camp 18.

Patrick, you obviously don't know Oregon very well, LOL!! Camp 18 is in Elsie, OR. It is right outside of Seaside. It has been featured in many Pacific Northwest publications. I guess I just assumed that this was posted on the Oregon board that everyone would know it was in Oregon. I'm sorry you're having so much trouble. Merry Christmas!! ***kim***

Kimamom, to find out this is posted on the Oregon board, someone would have to click on Oregon to see if it is there. If I wanted to know which state it was listed on, I'd have to click through a lot of states and check out all the posts on each one before I'd ever get to clicking on Oregon. The vast majority of readers here, simply look down the list of all posts in the US board. There is no indication there that it is Oregon you're talking about. That's why it IS a good idea to indicate in a post where you are talking about. Is it asking too much to add those extra 6 letters (OREGON)somewhere in your post so the average reader will know where you're talking about? Of course, it would be different if the place you were mentioning was "Chicago" or "Los Angeles", but let's face it, here you haven't even mentioned a town name or anything!

Please read through your post here. You will notice there is not a mention of a state, a city, even a highway to give the slightest idication of where this place is. The only person who could have a clue is someone who already knows this restaurant. I think the real value of the post would be giving this information to people who may be going to a certain area who would then look this place up. In other words people who don't already know this restaurant.

Sorry to keep driving at this, but I really do think adding a state or location of places people are talking about would make them a lot more valuable as posts. Do you agree?

By the way, using your logic, if you go to that post of mine about Cardiff on the European board, I could say the same thing you've just said. Since it's posted under the UK, you should know it's in the UK. See what I mean? How would you know that by just looking at the posts there?

Patrick you have made a very good observation!! If only you would have added those two extra initals to your post, I might have been able to figure out where it is!!! I will definitely add OR to my posts just to help you out!! LOL ***kim***

Fair enough. Merry Christmas.

Yes, Merry Christmas to everyone in OR and also in the UK!! ::wink:: kim

Very true, Patrick. A post will ONLY post to a general topic area (US, Caribbean, etc.) Typing in a specific state is only good for finding a thread, not posting one. All goes into the same pot.

Binthair: have you stopped at Camp 18 and what did you have there? I'm assuming the portions of food for lunch and dinner are also huge or is this just at breakfast? I was mostly impressed with the beauty of the inside of the place.

I would be interested in some reports on this place, not just specifics of the way it was posted. ***kim***

I honestly have only driven by on my way from Cannon Beach to PDX, but I promise to visit next summer after your review. I remember my first trip from the coast to PDX on a fairly low tank of gas and Camp 18 was one of the few landmarks along the way. We had to get to the airport and I just popped in for advice. I am still amazed (and happy) that stretch is still so undeveloped. We did also stop at the large Sitka Spruce closer to the beach; worth a few minutes of time and reminded me of visiting the Wye Oak on Maryland's eastern shore (also on my way to the beach) as a child.

That Sitka Spruce tree is the largest one in the United States!! Our kids loved stopping there when they were younger!! ***kim***