We stayed in the Dairy Creek East campground of LL Stub Stewart State Park in Buxton, Oregon. (Campground Reviews listing.)
We stayed here last year in the west loop, and really enjoyed it. So we decided to stay again this year, this time in the east loop.
Unfortunately it was a relatively late change to our plans, so we weren’t able to get a more private site on the outside of the loop, but we still enjoyed our stay.
Dates:
- Check in: 2023-06-25
- Check out: 2023-06-30
- 5 nights
Weather:
- Mostly sunny
- High temps ranging between 73-79°F, lows around 46-50°F
- Fairly negligible wind, up to 23 MPH gusts
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train noise
- Quite a lot of neighbor noise (kids playing)
Site:
- #81, back in, gravel
- Needed to disconnect toad; parked in front of coach
- Unlevel; used blocks on the front jacks
- Large site: about 28 feet long asphalt driveway, plus about 40 feet long and 35 feet wide gravel area
- Grass between sites, about 25 feet space between sites, about 75 feet behind
- Picnic table and fire pit on gravel
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 47 PSI water, conveniently located
- Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 8-11 Mbps down, 12-18 Mbps up, 28-90 ms ping
- AT&T: 105 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 32 ms ping
- Verizon: 25-42 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up, 30-140 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage compactor and recycling outside campground entrance
- No pool
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Nice state park in the Coast Range
This was our second time staying here, and have enjoyed it both times. Last year, we stayed in the West Loop and enjoyed the trees. This year, because it was a last-minute plan, we got a site on the inside of the East Loop. I would have preferred an outside site on the East Loop, as the inner sites have no trees or shade and back up onto a large grassy area where people play loud field games. Still, the sites in both loops are large, with plenty of room for our 40′ motorhome and tow vehicle, a screen tent, a fire pit, and a picnic table. We would definitely stay again and make sure to plan in advance to get a site on the outside of the loop. We camped at L.L. Stub Stewart Memorial State Park in a Motorhome.
The RV park map:
An embedded map, that you can zoom and scroll around:
Our site:
Even though we only stayed five nights, we set up the CLAM tent, in part to help discourage people from taking a shortcut through our site, since we were next to a path leading to the bathroom block:
We both worked outside in the tent at various times:
The aforementioned path, with our coach visible in the background:
At the other end of the path, the bathrooms:
Other sites:
A camp host ran after this T@B trailer to tell them that their tongue jack was still down; oops (T@B trailers are cute; this is a slightly larger one than the one Jenn’s father has):
Earlier in the week there were a lot of empty sites:
Central grassy area, with the playground in the background:
We would have preferred a site on the outside of the loop, but we still really like this campground, despite all the kids. We generally like state park campgrounds a lot.
