We're an ecologist and filmmaker who have lived overseas much of our life, and are still learning how to 'do' the van life, so felt privileged to get a beautiful, spacious walk-in site before dusk, just on the off-chance. The young and friendly staff on duty at the entrance at the time made us feel really welcome.  We were given a huge and very clean ADA site, though we did not need this.   If you seek a reverent time of tranquility and humility among giant redwoods, this is an outstanding, beautifully kept campground which manages to keep a deeply spiritual and tranquil air despite its size.  Showers and restrooms were open in mid-late May.  We appreciated the ecologically mindful management of the park, with its bear lockers, crumb-free campsite guidance and educational signage, recycling facilities and ethos of quiet, respectful usage.   Thank you everyone.

We were neophytes at the van life, and were lucky to get a mid-afternoon walk-in site here with very little advance research.  A friendly volunteer helped us get oriented and checked in, and the fee was well worth it - nice hot showers, convenient restrooms, and especially, four ospreys hunting along the beach a short and pretty trail away!   The dramatic sea stacks, raptors and breeding seabirds here, along with shady vegetation, made this a winner for us.  It's not the most private campground, but we appreciated much else about it.

We are a professional and adventurous couple in our late 50s/ early 60s who have been working our way down the snowy volcanic Cascades to Mt Shasta.  We're new to the van life, having lived mostly overseas, and are not RV-oriented, so we've been a little careful about choosing sites with adequate peacefulness, space and privacy. We figured that after a week out, we'd be ready for human company, especially a younger crowd. Loge at Mt Shasta was a great place to overnight (a Sunday night in May was really peaceful, with only two other sets of campers) and is a relaxed place as a base camp for the southwest flank of Mt Shasta. The 'Loge' is in active development and promises to be a happening place by summertime. It has great hot showers, a communal and shady relaxation area with a live-music venue (quiet when we were there), and friendly and responsive, although not overly wide-awake hosts. We parked our rented Cabana van of 19'8" back-in to the wooden cubicles and therefore had a reasonably private space with 2 Adirondack chairs and a picnic table. Well positioned (if you have wheels, anyway) for a drive up Shasta to about 7800' on the Everitt Highway - https://hikemtshasta.com/tag/everitt-memorial-highway/.   We did meet a guy who had successfully hitchhiked up there, too from town.  We'd recommend a laundry facility and a screened clothesline to make the site more functional for adventurers.  Also, nobody had cleaned our site before we arrived, and we had to ask the young manager for some cleaning solvents to remove dark greasy smears on our picnic table - not the best in a pandemic, but he was really responsive and got me something to clean it right away (and offered to do it himself).

We are a professional late 50s / early 60s couple new to the van life, and not RV-oriented, so we are a little careful about choosing sites with adequate peacefulness, space and privacy.  Cougar is a relaxed campground worthwhile as a base camp for the south side of Mt St Helens and its great lava tubes and forest hikes, so we ended up staying a second night as it had good hot showers, potable water, shade and friendly hosts.  Although our rented Cabana van of 19'8" had a toilet and shower onboard, we didn't need to use them.  This campground has available wood and sufficient space, and it's a 5-minute walk to a general store, gas station and restaurant, so well positioned.

We were looking forward to a quiet and simple night camping in our little rented self-contained camper van on the last day of a 12-day road trip. We arrived at the end of the road to find the campground closed, so we ended up abandoning our final night and driving home. The campground is pretty, the creek is clean, the 16 (?) sites are fairly well maintained and could be really lovely mid-week when not full. DNR would do well to post closure information so that apps like The Dyrt can more easily pick it up.

Peaceful, pretty, private, with beautifully clean cedar bathroom/showers and thoughtful touches, like a box of tissues in the laundry and nice-smelling lavender hand soaps provided. We had a lovely start to our volcano-climbing honeymoon here.