We stayed at Olive Branch Campground in Oregonia, Ohio. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Just a one night stop on the way to NIRVC.

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-07-19
• Check out: 2025-07-20
• 1 night

Weather:

• Rainy
• High temp 86°F, low 71°F
• Some wind, gusts to 23 MPH, but sheltered by trees

Noise:

• No road noise
• No train horn noise
• Little neighbor noise

Site:

• #124, pull-through, gravel
• The office told us the site was 55 feet and we’d need to unhook our toad, so we did, but we really didn’t need to do so; annoying
• Somewhat level site; high on driver side; used air leveling, since only one night
• Gravel driveway about 70 feet long by 15 feet wide
• 20 feet to neighbors on both sides
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• Tall trees
• Somewhat clean site
• Elevation 970 feet, front facing NE

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, fairly conveniently located
• 80 PSI water, conveniently located
• Didn’t hook up the sewer until departure, but it was a little inconvenient.

Internet (in usage priority order):

• RoamLink: 45 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up, 90-135 ms ping (the RoamLink service picks the best network, so I’m not sure which one it used, other than not AT&T)
• AT&T: 125 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 85 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Pool

Our review on Campground Reviews:

A bit expensive, but convenient

We needed a one-night stay on short notice, and this campground worked. It was a fairly basic site for $100. If we were staying longer and making use of the amenities, it would feel more worth it. Slightly annoying that the camp hosts told us we’d need to unhook our tow vehicle because it wouldn’t fit in the site, which was wrong–there was plenty of space to remain hooked up, and we would not have been in the road on either side. Site was mostly level and the utilities all worked well. We camped at Olive Branch Campground in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Other sites:

Just a one night stop, so no real opinion on whether or not we’d stay here again; probably so, though we’d ignore the office saying their site wasn’t long enough to remain toaded if we did.

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.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site; would have been much better as a front-in site:

View behind our site:

Autoformer electrical voltage booster:

Voltage error before I switched to the provided voltage booster:

ECM SPN 3058 FMI 18 error code when arriving, due to a steep climb up a very dusty road:

Other sites:

Given the narrow dusty roadway, tight sites, flaky power, and excessive rules, we would not stay here again.