The invention of the automobile required the building of better roads and highways as the number of cars in America increased from 8,000 in 1900 to 40 million by 1930. Touring motorists packed food, camping gear and their families in the car and began enjoying the freedom of camping anywhere along the roads.It didn’t take long for communities to begin offering free auto camps.By 1915, Ashland’s Lithia Park and Riverside Park in Grants Pass had established camps. [...]
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