Tumalo State Park offers guided overnight camping trip

Tumalo State Park welcomes beginning or out-of practice campers to join in an overnight guided camping excursion August 7 -9, part of the statewide “Let’s Go Camping” program hosted by Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD).

For $30 per family, OPRD provides tents, sleeping bags and other gear. Volunteers will help campers set up tents, build campfires, prepare meals in the campsite and more.

Activities will include: archery practice with Bend Parks & Recreation, an introduction to fishing clinic, an ancestral fire starting demo presented by Wildheart Nature School, and plenty of s’mores. Let’s Go Camping programs will be held at 19 different campgrounds throughout the state through Labor Day weekend. Participating campgrounds are listed at oregonstateparks.org (Click on “Things to Do”). Register online or by calling 888-953-7677 .