We stayed at Thousand Trails Moody Beach in Wells, Maine. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A short stay at a Thousand Trails park.

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-06-18
• Check out: 2025-06-22
• 4 nights

Weather:

• Mostly cloudy, some drizzle
• High temps 74-80°F, lows 61-65°F
• Some wind, gusts to 24 MPH

Noise:

• Some road noise
• No train horn noise
• Some neighbor noise

Site:

• #314, back-in, gravel
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
• Unlevel site; high on passenger side and rear; used hydraulic leveling with blocks on front
• Gravel driveway about 64 feet long by 10 feet wide
• 22 feet to neighbors on both sides
• Just grass between sites
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• No trees
• Clean site
• Elevation 50 feet, front facing SE

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 60 PSI water, conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 200-330 Mbps down, 22-38 Mbps up, 28-35 ms ping
• RoamLink: 3-9 Mbps down, 9-15 Mbps up, 130 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: 4-11 Mbps down, 0 Mbps up, 80-1000 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used (paid)

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Pool

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Good basecamp

This was a fine place for a short stay, and it was convenient to things in southern Maine. We even took a daytrip down to Salem. We had a back-in site at the front of the park, and it was fine–a little awkward when leaving because the sites are angled in such a way that you have to cut across the neighbor’s site a bit to get out. Utilities all worked well and the site was mostly level. We camped at Thousand Trails Moody Beach in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Other sites:

Tiny homes:

A nice Thousand Trails park. We’d be happy to stay here again.

We stayed at Quechee Pine Valley Campground in White River Junction, Vermont. (Campground Reviews listing.)

They were called Quechee / Pine Valley KOA Holiday when we booked (fairly recently), but we got a first clue that they were moving away from being a KOA when they didn’t give us the KOA VIP member discount. They were changing the various signage away from KOA during our stay. They have a blog post about their transition back to a private campground.

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-06-15
• Check out: 2025-06-18
• 3 nights

Weather:

• Partly sunny, some rain
• High temps 72-75°F, lows 55-62°F
• Negligible wind, gusts to 17 MPH

Noise:

• Some distant freeway noise
• No train horn noise
• No neighbor noise

Site:

• #53, pull-in (unusual!), gravel
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach
• Unlevel site; high on driver side; used hydraulic leveling
• Gravel driveway about 50 feet long by 20 feet wide
• 20 feet to neighbors on both sides
• Trees and slope between sites
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• Tall trees
• Clean site
• Elevation 760 feet, front facing SW

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 40 PSI water, very conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, very conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 30-44 Mbps down, 16 Mbps up, 31 ms ping, significantly obstructed (lots of trees)
• Campground Wi-Fi: used by Jenn, but not measured; seemed plenty fast
• RoamLink: 20 Mbps down, 0.1 Mbps up, 150 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: no service

Amenities:

• Garbage pickup from site
• Pool
• Package delivery (didn’t use, but asked)

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Hilly convenient location

When we made our reservation, this was a KOA, but upon arrival, they were in the process of removing all traces of KOA signage. It’s a nice campground, but with some very twisty, hilly internal roads and lots of trees. We had a front-in site at the top of the hill with a narrow road, which wasn’t a comfortable drive in a 40′ motorhome, but they escorted us to our site and made sure there wasn’t any oncoming traffic. Getting out was a little hairy as we had to back out and avoid the trees and the neighbors parked into the street. The site was a little unlevel, with no sky available for Starlink. The campground’s Wi-Fi was decent, and the location was good for exploring Vermont and New Hampshire. We camped at Quechee Pine Valley Campground in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site; unusually, a front-in site (for motorhomes only):

Trees in front of our coach:

Other sites:

Pool area (still with some KOA signage here, but since changed):

Pond by the entrance:

New entrance sign; clearly a KOA Holiday sign has been removed and replaced with a temporary banner:

Seems like a nice enough campground, though a little hilly. We’d probably stay here again.