Thousand Trails Hershey RV Campground

We stayed at Thousand Trails Hershey RV Campground in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. (Campground Reviews listing.)

If you don’t mind the occasional farm smells and being woken up by geese, this is a delightful campground. And convenient to Hershey. You know, the chocolate place.

Dates:

Check in: 2025-04-20
Check out: 2025-05-03
13 nights

Weather:

Partly sunny, a little rain
High temps 65-75°F, lows 44-56°F
A little wind, gusts to 25 MPH

Noise:

No road noise
No train horn noise
Some neighbor noise (dogs, a few kids)
Lots of bird noise (mostly geese)
Not noise, but an unpleasant smell sometimes, probably from nearby farms

Site:

#B97, back-in, gravel
Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
Somewhat level site; high on passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
Gravel driveway about 55 feet long by 15 feet wide
25 feet to neighbors on both sides
Just grass between sites
Picnic table
Fire pit
Tall trees
Mostly clean site
Elevation 550 feet, front facing NW
Backing on to lake

Utilities:

50 amp power, somewhat conveniently located
70 PSI water, conveniently located
Good sewer connection, conveniently located (less than 1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

Starlink: 25-64 Mbps down, 8-20 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
T-Mobile: 10-12 Mbps down, 0.25 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
AT&T: 7 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 45-70 ms ping
Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 2-5 Mbps up, 30 ms ping (our SIM has 5 Mbps max)
Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

Garbage dumpsters
Seasonally closed pool
Small lake

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Nice park close to Hershey

This was a very nice park by Thousand Trails standards. The roads in the park are easily navigable, but the access roads are a bit narrow, so you’ll be fine once you get to the park. Our site was somewhat level, but the hydraulic levelers coped well. Utilities were all good, with 70 psi water pressure, so bring a pressure regulator. We enjoyed the view of the lake and the waterfowl wandering about. The Canada Geese are a bit of a hazard to navigation and sleeping in (better than an alarm clock), but seeing the goslings out and about was nice. This park no longer allows mail or packages of any kind, but the post office in Campbelltown accepts general delivery and was the cutest, friendliest, and most homey post office I’ve ever been to.

The most annoying thing about our stay was the check-in process. They took my TT membership card and held onto it until I trekked back and handed in the (unnecessary and redundant) paperwork where I had to give them my license and registration information for my RV and truck and any guests I might be expecting and pledging the soul of my firstborn child (or something to that effect), whereupon they deigned to give me my gate pass and return of my membership card. After a long travel day through the PA turnpike, dealing with asinine bureaucracy and being held hostage is one of the last things I want to deal with. I sure hope that once they get used to the assigned site situation, they sunset this ridiculous policy. Nevertheless, we’d be happy to stay here again. We camped at Thousand Trails Hershey RV Campground in a Motorhome.

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