Mountain Top Campground

We stayed at Mountain Top Campground in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A campground on a mountain top… it’s right in the name. A downside of being on a mountaintop (or what passes for mountains on the east coast) is a narrow windy road to get to it. And the sites with the best view are crowded together.

Dates:

Check in: 2025-07-13
Check out: 2025-07-19
6 nights

Weather:

Thunderstorms, rain, mostly cloudy
High temps 81-87°F, lows 68-72°F
Little wind, gusts to 17 MPH

Noise:

No road noise
No train horn noise
Little neighbor noise

Site:

#41, back-in, gravel
Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
Unlevel site; high on passenger side and back; used hydraulic leveling with extra blocks in front
Gravel driveway about 75 feet long by 12 feet wide
0-18 feet (wedge-shaped) to neighbors on both sides
Just grass between sites
Picnic table
Fire pit
Tall trees behind site
Mostly clean site
Mountain top view behind site
Low tree branches behind site prevented going back further
Elevation 1,150 feet, front facing NE

Utilities:

50 amp power, inconveniently located behind site; needed to use a provided Hughes Autoformer voltage booster instead of my Watchdog due to low voltage (but still cut out a few times, not great for our electrical systems); also had 1.5 hour area power cut due to thunderstorms
50 PSI water, inconveniently located behind site
Good sewer connection, inconveniently located (3 10-foot pipes needed); campground has rules about avoiding heavy water use like flushing tanks

Internet (in usage priority order):

Starlink: 84-93 Mbps down, 26 Mbps up, 32 ms ping
RoamLink: 105 Mbps down, 45-56 Mbps up, 150 ms ping (the RoamLink service picks the best network, so I’m not sure which one it used)
AT&T: 120 Mbps down, 45 Mbps up, 102 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

Garbage dumpsters by entrance

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Convenient to Pittsburgh

The access roads into the park are twisty and narrow, making for some tense driving in a big rig. The dirt road into the campground itself was so dusty when we arrived that it set off a malfunction indicator light in our diesel pusher (the alert cleared after we left and drove on the freeway for a while, so it was definitely a combination of the hill and dust).

When hooking up to the power, there was a voltage booster attached to the pedestal, which we weren’t sure about, but one of the camp hosts (owners?) came by and explained that the power is a bit weak in the corner, so we could use that if there were issues. There were, and we did, but even with the booster, we were getting fluctuations.

In retrospect, we would have asked to be moved to a different site, as the weather was not conducive to taking in the view anyway. Also, the corner sites with the best views are very narrow, while the sites on the straight side are more spacious. During our stay, there were massive thunderstorms in the vicinity, which knocked out the power to the campground, and we got several text messages with the ETA of power restoration, which was very appreciated. We camped at Mountain Top Campground in a Motorhome.

Tip for Other Campers: Take in a game at PNC Park, one of the prettiest MLB parks! Also, near enough to check out the historic/iconic Fallingwater house by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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