Camping at one of the many state parks or private campground / RV Parks is an amazing way to experience the PNW Best Life. Sometimes camping is the main event, but camping is also a useful way to experience incredible hiking, fishing, and shellfish harvesting opportunities all over the Pacific Northwest.
When raising a family, nothing breaks you out of the rut of the electronics and screen-dominated ways to spend leisure time like spending meaningful time out on the coast, in the woods, or up in the mountains (and everywhere in between!)
We have tent camped for a good part of our camping lives, but at some point, we sprung for the travel trailer as it was a big help in keeping our kids dry when things got quite wet.