Thousand Trails Oceana Ocean City WA July 2017

Name; Thousand Trails Oceana RV Park

Date; July 2017

Staff; Very friendly

Price; $0.00 for members

Site; On gravel, back in W/30 amp E

Big rig friendly; Yes, roads are narrow

Amenities; Showers, restroom, laundry

Laundry; Yes didn't check it out, in a old trailer in front of park

Dog Friendly; Yes, large grass are in middle of oval loop, in back section of park

Phone/TV/Wi-Fi; Verizon good, over the air TV limited 

Night; Dark, great for viewing the stars especially on the beach

Security; Yes, gate with a keypad

Bonus; On the beach, but a long walk to the beach and ocean through the dune with high dune grass.
            A very wide beach, 100+ yards

Opinion; The back section is much nicer if on the perimeter of the oval, you back up to woods. The
                center is back to back parking. No piracy between sites. Front of park has few pull-thrus,
                FHU. dump up front near exit. We were still hooking up our car on the road and someone already backed into the space we just left, Very, very busy

Comments; We would stay here again. Close to small town that has everything you should need .   A bit touristy. Many restaurants

See our little white car

close

Hannah watching

The path to the beach

Still a long way

Here it is the beach

 

Looking back toward the RV Park

Riverview RVPK Forks WA July 2017

Name;  Riverview RV Park

Date;  July 22 to 25/2107

Staff; Great staff

Price; $30. Regular $33. Only discount was a military discount of 10%.

Site; Full hookup, on gravel, fairly level. Picnic table and fire ring. No privacy between close together sites. Gravel roads

Big rig friendly; yes, plenty of maneuvering room.

Amenities; Clean fairly new restrooms and laundry. Boat parking. Community fire ring for get together

Laundry; Yes, fairly new, very clean, 2 W/D

Dog Friendly; Yes, lots of room to walk a dog, although not much grass

Phone/TV/Wi-Fi; Very little OTA TV Verizon phone worked well

Night; Quite and low lighted

Security; Owners on sit 

Bonus; Quite setting, see comments

Opinion; We would stay here again. Many attraction in the area that is sparsely populated. Well kept park, a lot of new plantings around park and beautiful flowers in hanging baskets and pots. Owners very proud of their park. The owner came over to help us back into our site even though we didn't need help, but it was a very nice jester, and make sure we were level.   But he was there just in case.

Comments; Close to the downtown  Forks with a few restaurants  and some supplies and fuel. Small museum highlighting the Twilight book and movie series. Close to the Hoh Rainforest. Several beaches in the area. About 50 +/- miles to Cape Flattery. Sea stacks, the Quileute Indian Village in the town of LA Push, Rialto Beach. More on some of these in the next few blogs. Fishing in the river/bay/sea very big in the area. We crammed a lot into our few days in the area. We could have spent more time in this area.

Office, small store selling mostly fishing supplies

 

Laundry and rest rooms. All very clean

 

Hard to see, but concrete has fish and leaves imprinted on it.

Large parking lot used mostly for boats

Check out this walled tent

A fresh caught salmon planked fish dinner

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. Escapees Coho Evergreen RV Park, Chimacum WA, July 2017

Name; Escapees Coho RV park, Chimacum WA

Date; July 2017

Staff; very friendly like we found at all the Escapees parks.

Price; around $28

Site; just a gravel parking lot with water and electric, close together.There are some FHU's, but they were all taken. The sites were on grass and gravel,  also close together. There are some sites available throughout the park that are in a rental pool for monthly or longer stays. They are very nice.   There is also a dry camping area. I believe it is $5 per night, limited to I believe 5 nights. Use of super clean restrooms and dump.

Big rig friendly; yes a lot of  maneuvering room.

Amenities; very friendly folks that live here either full time or seasonally. Many park model homes. Many activities. A 55 or older community.  No pool or playground.

Laundry; Yes a  great sign up system. Washer $1.25, dryer .75.

Dog Friendly; Yes. a large fenced in dog park

Phone/TV/Wi-Fi; no OTA TV, good Verizon phone and our Mifi worked well. Slow park Wi-Fi.

Night not much lighting. Very quiet.

Book exchange; small library.

Bonus; close to Olympic National Park, Eastern side . Close to Port Townsend and the city of Sequin  Close to the ferry to Seattle, Vancouver Island and the city of Victoria, and the San Juan Islands.  Close to great restaurants. Great fishing and crabbing. Great summer location. But best of all is a great camping lifestyle. Also near Fort Warton State Park and beach. Just a lot to do, can't remember it all.

Opinion; Great please to stay in a great location.

Comments; You can see the pride of ownership in this park. While there I checked on buying a lot and found out there is  a year and half waiting list. The is a great location just outside the town of Port Townsend. So much to do in the area. Only thing it is a long distance from Florida our winter home. Again I'll say it, you can see the pride in ownership.

     Sorry for so few pictures for a place we think so highly about. Somewhere we loss a lot of photo's.

A tiny home

Maple Grove Randle WA July 2017

                           
Name; Maple Grove Resort and Golf  Club, Randle WA

Date; July 15-17 2017


Staff; very friendly and helpful. Told of all the events. Sold some great fresh baked cinnamon buns.

Price; a Coast To Cost park,a membership park. Our cost thru C-T-C was $10. Per night. The golf course is right alongside of the RV park. Not sure of the cost to play. This is a K/N resort. Non members can stay for around $50. A night.

Site; our site was on grass, water and electric. There are about 50  full hook up. Being a weekend then were all taken when we arrived. Sometime we can't help but travel on weekends. The FHU's seem to be closer together, I believe they were all pull thru's. There is a dump station, but tight. Only 1 dump. No privacy between sites. The roads were dusty.

Big rig friendly;yes, wide roads. But in the FHU area the roads are narrow. There are some trees to maneuver around.

Amenities; indoor pool, golf, Larger playground,many activities. Breakfast on Sunday.

Laundry; yes, very clean, but small.

Dog Friendly; yes lots of grass and open space

Phone/TV/Wi-Fi; our Verizon worked well, but I didn't check the parks. I believe we paid $2 a day for the parks cable.

Night; not much lighting

Security; no gate.

Book exchange;?, I believe there is one in the office. They do have a selection of  CD's

Bonus; about 25 to 40 miles to MT Reniner and MT Saint Helen Nal PK

Opinion; surrounded by mountains, a great stop over. A beautiful location. A river flows along the back of the park.

Comments; we have stayed here before we would stay here again.  About 15 miles from a grocery store. I believe it is a IGA store.

. Thousand Trails Crescent Bar, Quincy WA July 2017

Name;  Thousand Trails Crescent Bar, Quincy WA.

Date; July 10th to 15th

Staff;  Very friendly and helpful.

Price;  Membership park, our costs was $0 dollar's. For non members I heard the costs is $75. I'm not sure of the cost.

Site; Gravel full hookup, picnic table. We had a water view. Back in. Some pull thru. Small grass between sites. Gravel roads.

Big rig friendly; Yes, wide roads

Amenities; pool with a hot tub. Super deck overlooking the Columbia River.

Laundry;  yes with newer looking machines

Dog Friendly; Yes the park is dog friendly, but not much grass.

Phone/TV/Wi-Fi; No over the air TV,  my Verizon Mifi and phone OK.

Night; Very quite, some spotty lighting.

Security; Gate with a entry code needed.

Book exchange; not sure

Bonus;  beautiful location, along the Colorado River. About 60 miles from the city of Leavenworth. A Bavarian village with some great restaurants, and shopping. 

Opinion; one of the nicest Thousand Trails we stayed at. Beautiful setting. Well kept park. Can use things like paved roads and sites. Its location location.

Comments; near the neat little town of Quincy . Many orchards and  fresh fruit, verities  depending on the season. About 25 miles from Wenatchee that has all the shopping and services you need. We would stay here again.


A steep drive into the canyon along the Colorado river. A beautiful setting. The RV Resort is at the very left of the bottom photo

Looking out the front of our site

The river in the back seen on the left

Another shoot of our site and the river in the   background

Hannah keeping cool in the shade. In the back is the restrooms/showers/laundry room. The pool and hot tub are just out of sight. Sports courts are to the left

Fellow dog owners please pick up after your dogs. Several park mangers said this is the number complaint and something must be done about the problem. We don't want to see a no pet policy. Please clean up after your dog whether large or small.  

. Ponderosa Falls Resort,Cheney WA., July 2017

            Cheney was just a short way into Washington. Just a short distance west of Spokane.

       Ponderosa Falls

Name; Ponderosa Falls RV Resort, 7520 South Thomas Mallem Rd Cheney WA

Date; July 2017

Staff; Very friendly and helpful

Price; $10 per night, a Coast to Coast member

Site; Gravel off level, wooded with very tall pine trees . We had a picnic table

Big rig friendly; Yes, but not all sites are

Amenities; Many, indoor heated pool, large club house weekend dinners and all the usual you find at a resort.

Laundry; yes looked large, we didn't check it out

Dog Friendly; The park is, but lacking areas to walk a dog.

Phone/TV/Wi-Fi Verizon worked well, didn't check the parks Wi-Fi Cable TV available for $2 a day. OTA TV had all major networks

Night; Quite, low lighting

Security; Coded gate

Book exchange; ?

Bonus; Many activities for kids

Opinion; Large park, could be used for a destination park as many folks from Spokane used it for that purpose. Many had seasonal sites, but all kept neat

Comments; we would stay here again, only problem was many sites close together. Weekend it was full, many kids.
     From here we visited Mount Spokane. We also found out about a parade and rodeo. We did take in both and enjoyed both. See in another blog.

Thousand Trails/KOA Little Diamond RV Park

Newport Washington
      Not sure were to start. This is a park that is part Thousand Trails and part KOA. Don't let the pictures fool you. We had one of the better sites. About half the sites in the TT part are unusable. Maybe with a tent they can be used. This park requires MAJOR updating,  or a total remake. Not to noticeable in the pictures, but our hookups are in the front of the site between those tall trees in front of our truck. There are two hookups, one for us and one for the site on our left. But one of the electric outlets didn't work. We had 30 amp electric and water. There are no sewer hookups. But there is a pump out for $25. Never did we pay more for this service then $10. The KOA part of the park was in a lot better shape. They did a lot of upgrades. The pool and all amenities are shared by both TT and KOA. Everybody we had any contact with that worked for the park were very friendly and helpful. They all wore yellow KOA shirts, with a very little Thousand Trails embroider below the larger KOA emblem. Not sure who is running the parks. Did ask one lady who she worked for and she said our checks come from LLS. The laundry was clean with 5 W/D's. Checked the restrooms in the TT park and they were in good shape and very clean.  There is some new gravel in some of the sites, like ours. The roads are very hard packed dirt with very little gravel. There are many sites, 50- 75 or more in the woods behind us that are so grown in that they must not have been used in 10 or 15 years. A worker here told us they weren't used for 30 years. There are evergreen trees growing on them that are 5-6 foot tall, were you would park your RV. There are two abandon restrooms and what looks like something that was a lodge in the unused area. Not sure what that's about.  In the second pictures note the site that is on our right. It has a major sloop. One of the great things about this park is the super aroma of all the evergreen trees. Most days it just like opening one of those pine air freshens for your car or pine aerosol for your  home. Everybody and I mean everybody that worked there was very very friendly.

Osoyoos ST PK-Oroville WA

$21. No hook ups. About 6 miles from the border. There is also a $5. charge to dump even if camping there. They have a water fill. Nice wide open sites with little or no shade.