We stayed in the Dairy Creek West campground of LL Stub Stewart State Park in Buxton, Oregon. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A pleasant state park.
Dates:
- Check in: 2022-07-11
- Check out: 2022-07-25
- 14 nights
Weather:
- Mostly sunny
- High temps ranging between 73-90°F, lows around 49-62°F
- No significant wind
Noise:
- No road noise or train noise
- Some neighbor noise (kids and dogs), mostly quiet
- Crows making a racket on the roof
Site:
- #46, back in, gravel
- Needed to disconnect toad; parked in front of coach (on asphalt)
- Fairly level, once we moved the coach away from the edge
- Large site: about 64 feet long by about 45 feet wide
- Full hookups:
- 50 amp power conveniently located
- 30 PSI water pressure (we boosted from our tank); conveniently located
- Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10 foot hoses used)
- Picnic table, fire pit on gravel
- Several trees for privacy
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 4 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 38 ms ping
- AT&T: 8 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- Verizon: 30 Mbps down, 12 Mbps up, 23 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage compactor and recycling outside campground entrance
- No pool
Here’s our review on Campground Reviews:
Huge sites in a beautiful park
We loved our stay at this campground. Our site was beautifully tucked into the trees, and it just felt like what a campground should be. The place has an awesome vibe. It feels like a rustic campground but has full hookups. It feels like you’re a long way from anywhere, but it’s pretty convenient to Hwy 26, so you can head to Portland or the Coast for an easy day trip. The camp hosts are really on top of things; they rake and tidy things up almost as soon as the previous occupant has left. And the sites are just massive. We had room for our 40′ motorhome, tow vehicle, screen tent with table and chairs, plus the campground-provided picnic table and firepit, with room left over. I can see why this park is popular with groups. We saw several campers with multiple sites booked, who all hung out at one site in the evenings.
We stayed in the West campground, which has a lot more trees around the loop than the East one and has a few that need to be trimmed along the road because they twanged the antenna on top of our rig, but it’s a minor thing because we will stay here again when we’re in the area. 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 before parking:
Our coach in our site:
From the hill behind the site (and yes, the tent is new; I’ll do a separate post about that):
A peek of the roof:
Woods behind our site:
A murder of crows; they had an annoying habit of walking on our roof, making a racket:
The crows did enjoy the drip tray of our griddle:
Another recent addition was a milk crate to help carry and stabilize the propane cylinder:
Griddle breakfast for dinner:
More pics of our site:
Another dinner:
Oh deer:
Levitating squirrel:
Butterfly:
Another deer:
Aerial views of our site:
Let’s explore. The welcome center:
The campground didn’t have any garbage bins or dumpsters, but did have a trash compactor just outside:
And it being Oregon, of course there were lots of recycling bins, too:
Self registration station for late arrivals:
Bathrooms:
More bathrooms:
Tent sites:
Other RV sites:
We will probably come back here in the future, but might like to stay on the opposite side of the road, for better shade. Site 41 could be a good choice:
Or site 43:
Or site 45:
Behind site 45:
A seating area by a path to the adjacent campground:
We were in Dairy Creek Campground West; the East campground is nearby:
Both campgrounds have a couple of Park Hosts:
Dairy Creek Campground East is a bit more open:
This campground might be better for our coach; it brushed some of the foliage in the west campground. Sites 82, 84, 86, 88, 89, 90, and 92 would all be excellent choices for afternoon shade and a decent amount of privacy:
A very nice couple of campgrounds. We’ll likely stay here again when visiting Portland.
