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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2025

Brookings, Oregon

Some parks have seen updates to parking fees and seasonal camping rates

Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) has updated some visitor fees at select parks as part of a broader, proactive effort to build a more resilient financial future for Oregon State Parks. As of October 1st, Oregon State Parks will no longer waive the parking fee at twenty-one additional day-use parks. The parking fee is currently $10 for in-state visitors and $12 out-ofstate visitors. The parking fee does not apply to visitors who walk, bike, use public transportation, have a valid hangtag from camping at an Oregon State Park or a twelve or twenty-four-month parking permit. Currently, OPRD charges for parking at twenty-five parks and waives parking fees at over two-hundred twenty-five parks across the state. The twenty-one additional parks include some of the busiest parks in the system such as Harris Beach State Park, which experienced an estimated two million day-use visits last year. Visitor fees help pay for maintenance and operation. Some overnight camping rates will also see updates for visits beginning May 1, 2026: • Overnight rates at our twenty-nine busiest parks will increase to the top of the current rate range from May 1st through September 30th. This increase will apply year round on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights (Top rate is $29 for tents and $52 for full hook-up RV). • At all parks: • Cabin and yurt prices will increase to the top of the rate range year round. (Top rates vary from $72 for rustic yurts to $129

A popular tourist destination

Peter Iredale shipwreck at Fort Stevens State Park

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Freak Show:

27,000 square feet of sheer marquee madness Once again, you are invited to experience the biggest spine-chilling haunted house on the entire Oregon coast. Journey if you dare, through an inhuman concourse of rat men, lizard boys, mutated pinheads, strong men and bearded ladies, cackling clowns, Siamese twins, bone cracking contortionists, hideous acrobats, misfortune tellers, reckless knife throwers and a boy with the face of a dog? Deranged barkers will entice you into a petrifying pavilion of gory games amidst the maze of the big top frenzy. Smell the rotten cotton candy, the stinking sawdust and the stench of beasts bound riled in their cages. Those few who survive such a demented tour of freakish depravity will receive tasty Trick or Treats, soft drinks and helpings of Claire's infamous “Black Circus Chili” in the retreat of her “Nightbreak Beastro" at the end of the terrifying tent of doom. There, you are welcome to recover until your wobbling remains are able to walk once again. Once again, in conjunction with the Chetco Pelican Players Community Theater, this deranged monstrosity of the unknown and the unexplainable is presented by the Hellish HippoPlease see FREAK SHOW Page 4

Practice makes perfect: Cloudy Oka (l) and Tony Fogleman practice some spooktacular fun.

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