The access to the water was nice and so were the park hosts. They gave us free passes to see the beach up the road - but it was dried up and probably was for years. Strange they gave us the passes. There are some hikes around but you have to drive to them. The toilets are the vault toilets and there are no sinks/showers. Not a bad experience but if I'm already car camping I like nicer amenities. We stayed in the group camping area and it wasn't bad. More privacy than normal group sites since everyone had their own site on the loop. Some road noise. It wasn't a bad place, just not somewhere I would make a special trip to camp at.

Our tent is 10" by 8" and we barely fit this thing in the site. We were in site 9 (the one next to us looked really nice like you could set it up under the trees!). I learned the hard way to check size of the camp site to make sure your tent fits! We did it but it was close! That's probably my fault really, but none of the sites seemed particularly big. It was nice that it was right by the creek so you could hear that in the tent. Sites are separated by trees side to side, but there's a road down the middle and the sites across the way are very visible as there is just downed trees as a barrier. There is a little trail you can walk up through the campsite - but you never really get to see the creek! The chipmunks here were super aggressive. My daughter was eating a fig bar and we were all at the table too. She put the bar down on the table to take a drink of water and the chipmunk jumped on the table and grabbed her bar and ran. I've never experienced that brave of a chipmunk before!

There is something truly humbling camping under such big trees. This camp site was beautiful. We were in site 9 and it felt pretty private because it was up further from the two neighboring sites. Downsides are that it was across from the bathroom (I was traveling with a 1 and 2 year old so that was done on purpose) so it was car traffic from people too lazy to walk there. I didn't expect that. I'm also a tent camper and tents are mixed in with rv's so you get the rv buzz to until generator shut off time. The bathrooms were nice running water and flush toilets. Showers are pay showers too. Half the campground was closed when we went for renovations so it was not as busy as it probably usually is. The highway was close so you could hear some car noise but it wasn't as bad as the other reviews have implied. Nice amphitheater and trails around the site!

We camped here on our way from Portland to Arizona. It is about 4 hours from Portland. Has a playground and water access. The campground itself was just a big field really. We had site 40 so at least it was covered in trees. I'd recommend making sure you were out the outside of the ring, if you get in the middle it's just campsites right next to each other with no trees for privacy. It fit our requirements as a passing by site, it's not somewhere I would plan to visit. Lots of kids on bikes circling the tents and an overall party vibe of the whole site. Just not a very relaxing or private camping experience.

Road noise can be loud here. Try to get a site as close to the river as you can so you can avoid the highway noise at night. The bathrooms here are great - showers, running water, and flush toilets! The river is refreshing on warm days to swim in. We like this because it's an easy day trip from Portland. (Avoid camping next to the porta potties - we did that one time and a truck at 6:30am came to empty them. Granted it was a weekday but it was not the best way to wake up.) Next time we learned and got a site closer to the real bathrooms. Sites are pretty private though you will hear your neighbors!

We stayed at campsite c-15. It was really big with tons of logs for my kids to climb and had creek access as well. Some of the other sites were pretty tiny so we really got lucky with this site. It's a short walk to the beach or evening program as well. Not much road noise and it was well shaded under the trees. That being said it did rain while we were there so because of the tree cover it didn't dry very well either. Not a negative - just something to be prepared for. Many of the beach adjacent sites are not shaded and subjected to the ocean winds. There was minimal road noise and you could hear the ocean at night!. Only thing that would make it better would be showers!