Day 2 starts in the casino in Florence.  Our destination today is a visit to a park from my past.  My dad took me elk hunting with him awhen i was young.  We stayed at a park call Laverne park.  I wanted to revisit that park to see whars changed.  We looked it up on the garmin and found 2 routes.  One was 34 miles and one was 13 miles.  Knid of confusing so we just put the address in and put our trust on the garmin gods.  We were on a curvy little 2 lane road which then turned to gravel.  It was only 11 miles to go .. How long can this gravel road last?  Well turns out this short cut is acyually a logging road.  It was shorter but it was slow and a little bumpy … I hope cruise america osbt following our blog.  Also the locals were using the road for some kind of jog a thon.  So we were dogging potholes and joggers.  Luckily we didnt run into any log trucks.  Anyway we finally got to a paved road and 4 miles later found Laverne County park campground.  It really hadnt changed much from my memories.  I located the big bend on the Coquile river where i caught my first salmon. 

Also walked to the falls where my dad would watch me try to catch salmon with my hands as the salmon jumped the falls. 

The park is much more beautiful than i remember.  We got a spot right next to the river with the sound of the river in the background. 

The park host stopped by and we swapped stories for an hour.  He said that a month earlier the fishermen were elbow to elbow pulling salmon out of the river.  The next morning we walked around the park once more and it was off to Coquile.  This time we decided to take the long way.