We stayed at Thousand Trails Lake & Shore in Ocean View, New Jersey. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A fairly typical Thousand Trails campground, mostly full of park models and annual sites, with a small section for transients.
Dates:
- Check in: 2025-04-13
- Check out: 2025-04-20
- 7 nights
Weather:
- Partly sunny
- High temps 53-71°F, lows 40-56°F
- Some wind, gusts to 28 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train horn noise
- Some neighbor noise
- Industrial noise from a mine next to the campground during working hours (and sometimes overnight)
Site:
- #E16, back-in, sand
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach
- Unlevel site; high on rear and passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
- Sand site about 50 feet long by 45 feet wide
- Picnic table
- Fire pit
- Tall trees
- Somewhat clean site
- Elevation 20 feet, front facing NW
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, somewhat conveniently located at back of site
- 60 PSI water, somewhat conveniently located at back of site
- Good sewer connection, very conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 430-630 Mbps down, 45 Mbps up, 19 ms ping
- AT&T: 220-280 Mbps down, 17 Mbps up, 58 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 25 ms ping (our SIM has 5 Mbps max)
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters near entrance
- Pool
- Beach
- Water park
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Nice park close to Jersey Shore activities
Most of this park is occupied by annual sites/park models, with a small area for “transient” visitors like us. We arrived not long after they’d opened for the season, and there was a bit of a hassle as they adjusted to the new way of assigning sites. The gate that’s supposed to be used by RVs checking in was out of commission, so we had to go through the car gate, which doesn’t have a keypad high enough to reach from the RV. The girl at the front desk said she’d keep an eye out and let us in, but she’d obviously forgotten or gone somewhere else in the 5 minutes it took us to unhook the tow vehicle, so we were stuck. I saw at least one other camper have the same problem a couple of days later, as well.
Once we got to our site, it was long enough for our motorhome and wide enough to park beside it. The site was a little unlevel, but better than some others. Nice little lake and beach on the property, and during the hot months, I imagine the pool and splash pad areas are super busy. Trash disposal is very far from the camping area, so slightly inconvenient if you don’t have a golf cart or take it in your car when you go out. There was also some low hum of nearby industrial noise, but it wasn’t too loud inside the RV. We camped at Thousand Trails Lake & Shore in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
Our first new state of the year, we were able to add the New Jersey sticker to our map:
Lake and sunset:
Seasonally closed water park:
Other sites:
Nothing too exciting about it, but we wouldn’t mind staying here again.
