Northend Campground — Moran State Park

The campsites themselves are lovely. The campground is very hilly, which can make for a hike to bathrooms in the night if that is a consideration for you.

The sites are not level, we wished we carried leveling blocks in our van when we were trying to figure out how to park.

The day use area is directly across, and is a nice walk with just a towel. We needed to drive down for our kayak/paddle board as it was not a reasonable idea to carry them from our campsite on the far end of the campground.

All in all I would stay here again, I would simply come prepared with leveling blocks and know that I will need to drive to water to use my kayak and/or paddle board.

Lovely place—perfect for kayaking and hiking and driving or biking four miles into town for fancy dinners (if you are into that). Beautiful fir-cedar forest with some old growth trees. Campground is hilly and quite rustic. I have a small (16-ft) all-terrain trailer and Subaru. I would not want to attempt driving here with a big rig. Space is tight!

Moran State park in one of my favorite places on Earth. And camping here is just icing on the cake. There are multiple campgrounds in the park, so this review is about the Northend Campground specifically.

I've camped here many times over the years, and have never been disappointed with the campsite. I find them reasonably spaced apart, if not much privacy. The campground is a bit hilly, so not ideal for little kids to ride bikes around. There are better campgrounds in WA for bike riding, like Birch Bay.

But it's hard to top Moran State park for hiking, swimming, fishing, canoeing/row boating. The trails are well maintained and take you to beautiful sites, like Twin Lakes, or the falls (Cascade Falls?), or the wooden bridge by the lagoon (fun to jump off!)

The bathrooms have showers, and have always been kept clean. There are garbage cans and access to potable water, too.

We've never had an issue with bugs or critters either. One year some owls kept us awake with all their hooting, but that was only one time.