Larrabee State Park Campground

Larrabee State Park is a great spot, surrounded by forests and a beautiful beach. The campsites are really well located with clean restrooms, picnic tables, and fire pits. The hike to the beach is well worth it especially walking under train tracks. The park is easy to explore, and the trains passing by at night are quite a unique experience. This place is perfect for nature lovers and those seeking a bit of adventure. A truly memorable camping experience!

The positives: close to Bellingham. Really charming little beach and trails. Clean grounds and bathrooms. Coin operated showers. The negatives: road noise, train noise and light noise from the RV pull thru sites and raccoon mafia noise. The challenges: Most of the back in sites are medium to smallish. We had a difficult time finding one large enough that was level enough for our car camping setup. This is one of the larger sites and offers okay privacy. The parking pad levels out just enough at the back end to get 1 short chassis vehicle almost level.

The campsites are extremely close together, tent camping along the outer edge and RVs in the middle row. The ranger office is only open from 2-4 so outside of that time you have to do self reservations, which turned out to be problemsome for our neighbor camper. He put the wrong site on his reservation slip, or tacked it to the wrong site, I don't know. But it ended up with him confronting us, confused, that we were in his camp after another group mistakingly bought his campsite earlier in the day. The RV people across from us were adamant about keeping his spot for him, which was nice for him, but they weren't very kind about it. The bathrooms were really nice and showers were included. The short trail to the beach was also nice. Overall an okay stay, it was really just the unfriendliness of other campers that harshed our vibe. Oh yeah and also the traffic right next to the campground + a very loud train that goes through at 2AM might dampen the mood as well. I would say don't stay here and just go another half hour to deception pass- MUCH better experience there .