We stayed at Plymouth Park Campground in Plymouth, Washington. (Campground Reviews listing.)
Spiders!
Dates:
- Check in: 2022-08-24
- Check out: 2022-08-27
- 3 nights
Weather:
- Mostly sunny
- High temps ranging between 96-99°F, lows around 63-66°F
- A little wind
Noise:
- No road noise or train noise
- No neighbor noise
Site:
- #32, pull through, asphalt
- Didn’t need to disconnect toad; parked in front of coach
- Fairly level
- Large site: about 90 feet long by about 90 feet wide
- Partial hookups:
- 50 amp power conveniently located
- Water not used due to boil notice (we arrived with full tank)
- No sewer connection
- Picnic table and fire pit on gravel
- Large trees
- Spiders!
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 22-82 Mbps down, 8-16 Mbps up, 95 ms ping
- Verizon: 0.1 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up, 800 ms ping
- AT&T: 26 Mbps down, 13 Mbps up, 58-122 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: unknown
Amenities:
- Dumpsters
- No pool
Here’s our review on Campground Reviews:
Not for the Arachnophobic
This is a beautiful park, right along the Columbia River. When we arrived, we particularly enjoyed the large shade trees and green space at each site. However, when we woke up the next day, it was as if we’d spent the night in Mirkwood. Spiders. Spiders everywhere. All over our motorhome and tow vehicle. Every nook and cranny had spider webs and a resident spider (orb weavers, so not harmful, but still). Looking up at the trees, it was obvious that there was a major infestation as there were spiders hanging between every branch. I am not arachnophobic, but it really made me not want to sit outside. It’s probably just the time of year, and it may not be such an issue any other month, but it was really, really bad at the end of August. I spoke to another camper who had been planning on staying a week but was going to leave the next day because they didn’t want to deal with the spiders. I kind of wish we’d left earlier than planned as well. We knocked down as many as we could see before we left, drove over 200 miles, and are still dealing with them a couple of days later.
It should also be noted that they were having some issues with the water system at the park and issued a boil notice, so you need to be prepared with your own water supply before coming. If they resolve the water issue and the spider issue, I’d be happy to stay here again because it really was lovely otherwise. We camped at Plymouth Park Campground in a Motorhome.
The RV park maps:
Our site:
A bug:
Spiders!
Other RVs:
Playground:
A nice campground… other than the minor detail of the spider infestation, and unavailable water and sewer.