We stayed at Thousand Trails Seaside in Seaside, Oregon. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A nice Thousand Trails park.

Dates:

• Check in: 2023-05-28
• Check out: 2023-06-04
• 7 nights

Weather:

• Partly cloudy
• High temps ranging between 58-65°F, lows around 46-51°F
• A little wind

Noise:

• No road noise
• No train noise
• A little neighbor noise

Site:

• #158, back in, gravel
• Needed to disconnect toad; parked in front of coach
• Rather unlevel; took us a few tries, and needed blocks under the front jacks
• Medium site: about 50 feet long by about 40 feet wide
• Picnic table and fire pit on grass

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, inconveniently located
• 65 PSI water, inconveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 25-29 Mbps down, 4-10 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
• AT&T: 4 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 70 ms ping
• Verizon: 4 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Dumpsters only by entrance
• Indoor pool

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Large, busy park

First, a very important tip, especially when staying at a Thousand Trails or other first-come park: Do not arrive on the Sunday of a three-day weekend. We forgot about Memorial Day when we planned our route, and trying to find an open 50A site was diabolical on Sunday afternoon. Another rig that pulled in behind us was faster unhooking their toad and zipped ahead of us to take the last available site. Rude. So we drove around the north section (where the 50A sites are) for quite a while with no joy. Fortunately, a seasonal resident was just about to move from their temporary site to their permanent one and flagged us down. We waited while they packed up and moved, then we were able to pull into a nice end site near the bathroom block. Normally, I don’t like being so close to the bathrooms, but we needed to sanitize our water system, so it was very convenient. The site itself was incredibly unlevel and it took us quite a while to get as close to level as possible but never got completely there. Once we got situated, it wasn’t a bad place to stay, however. We camped at Thousand Trails Seaside in a Motorhome.

Tip for Other Campers: Pizza delivery from Angelina’s right to your site. Drive up to Washington and check out the Cape Disappointment lighthouse. Dinner at Mo’s and a walk along the promenade are great ways to spend an evening.

Interactive map:

The map, with all available north-side sites when we checked in circled:

Our arrival experience wasn’t ideal, but mostly on us: we foolishly arrived on Sunday of Memorial weekend, when almost all sites were occupied. The only vacant sites were reserved for seasonal sites. But the people that had reserved one of those directed us to the site they were moving from, which was quite a nice location, albeit not very level:

Painted rocks left on the picnic table by the previous occupants:

Utilities:

A large grassy area next to our site; not having a neighbor on the driver side was nice:

Another nice thing is Angelina’s Pizza delivery on travel day:

Other sites:

Cabins:

Tent sites:

Oops, a trailer took a corner too sharply and hit a rock (with a loud crunch):

Tennis courts:

Indoor pool:

Clubhouse:

Playground:

Bathrooms across the grassy area from our site — we usually don’t use campground bathrooms, but this time having them nearby was helpful, as we sanitized our fresh water tanks, which means not using our own bathrooms for several hours:

Pet exercise area: