Best RV Parks & Resorts near Marblemount, WA

Cute little place. Laundry, fishing pond and restrooms. Looks like mostly long term

RV & trailers with helpful park rangers. We arrived same day and found spots to park our 30’ RV. Water and power with waste at central spot. Padilla Bay is dramatic and quiet morning and evening, a short walk away. Lots of kids and great for them to finally play together in the common field.

In character, this is more of an RV park than a campground. While there are some people staying just with tents, most have RVs or fifth wheels. Privacy between sites is limited, as well mostly find in such settings. But, still, I can recommend this place even to tenters. The park is wonderfully kept, there are group shelters where you can eat comfortably even in the rain and the cabins offered or nice – A couple of regular ones and a couple of open bunk cabins. All of them in good repair. The setting is beautiful in a verdant and interesting valley, right by the river. There is a small local bar/diner just a few steps away and a boat ramp on the same property.

The RV park is merely a gravel parking lot and you don't get to access the resort. You can't really get to the beach either, so there's not a lot to do here except gamble. The restaurants in the casino are just ok. Gambling is fun but if you are looking for the whole experience, this is a little lacking.

Jim creek military campground is beautiful. Scenic views, tons of amenities, spacious RV spaces, very clean, and friendly staff. Great place for families! Boating, kayaking, and hiking on site. Tent, RV, and cabins available.

Most RV spots are wide enough for 2 vehicles, except pull through spots which are pretty long. We had no problem navigating the roads with our truck and 17' Micro Minnie trailer. Playground is awesome for little kids. Amazing play structure. This place loses a star for the beach access park. The grass is very wet and mushy. With a little work this could be fixed. The swimming area is also just rock and mud. A few loads of sand would make it infinitely better.

Clean restroom, nice RV spot's, peaceful sound of the river.

General: A variety of options from cabins to tent sites to RV sites with electric and water hookups on the Skagit River. 

Site Quality: With the exception of the ADA-accessible sites and the sites directly on the river, sites are gravel. All appeared to be level. Sites have nice tree cover separating them.

Bath/Shower house: Code entry and they were clean. Showers are $1 for four minutes and a quarter for each continuous minute thereafter. Didn’t use so cannot comment on them (except that hooks are outside of the shower stall, compromising privacy a bit). 

Activities: There is some nice playground equipment and horseshoe pits (not sure if you have to bring your own horseshoes). There is a trail, but a sign was posted saying there was a recent cougar siting, so I took a pass on that one! Saw a boat on the river with people fishing. 

We ended up here since our planned campground was closed due to recent fires. We arrived at 3 pm on a Thursday the week after Labor Day and there were plenty of sites, so the host gave us an ADA-accessible site since it was larger. We appreciated the helpfulness of the host for a last-minute reservation and the price was reasonable.

We only stayed for a night while passing through, but found this campground to be clean and appreciated the nice level sites.

There are multiple campground areas within the recreation area ranging from RV camping to hike in areas within the National Forest. The tent camping areas offer a great amount of seclusion while making it easy to move around the recreation area. There are multiple rivers and large lakes for activities or to lull you to sleep as the snow melts fill the river beds. We got incredibly lucky finding this place and will be back. Would recommend waiting until June for camping as it can be quite cold.

This is a review for the Mount Baker Ski Area overnight parking area. The name above is less clear but could not change it. The ski are has set aside the area of the Bagley Lake trail head parking lot adjacent to the East Rock Bank for RVs and other vehicles to park overnight. A spot can be reserved online at https://www.roverpass.com/c/mt-baker-ski-area-bellingham-wa/ (25$ for occupied vehicles and $15 for un-occupied)

There are no hook-ups and recreational vehicles must be self-contained. No other overnight parking is allowed anywhere in the vicinities of the ski area (at least in winter).

Fires are allowed only in own fire-pits. Only facility is the forest service maintained outhouse on the south end of the parking lot. The lot itself will fill on week-end with resort skiers and other recreationists (back-country skiers, snowshoers heading to the Mount Baker backcountry. The views are amazing and access to resort and backcountry  skiing cannot be matched (there are no hotels at the resort).

Only cons for us was noise from other campers (we had a very rowdy group camped next to our van) and at 5:30 AM the groomer tractors started parading in the parking lot headed for the slopes so there was no sleep after that. Definitely not the wilderness camping experience but again the ski out of your door experience cannot be matched here!

I was a little upset when I booked two sites for a 24’ motorhome and 26 ‘ trailer. Site 11 for the trailer was barely 26’ deep and the angle to back in was opposite what it needed to be. There was no room left to park the truck. Fortunately I went and talked to the host ( very nice guy) and he let us have the site on the other side of the road 12 which was right on the river and plenty big enough for truck and trailer. It had been marked unavailable but I guess he’s really picky about who he lets in there because it has a sheer drop off into the River and he doesn’t want any little kids falling in. I put my motorhome in 11 straight across from it so it worked out good. There are really nice pads for tents on all the sites. But almost all were to small for more than 26’ motorhome.

Spacious sites with beautiful Mountain View’s. RV sites equipped with water & electric hookup. Nice clean gravel sites with fire ring & picnic tables.
20 miles to North Cascades National Park.