We stayed at Thousand Trails St Clair in St Clair, Michigan. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A nice Thousand Trails campground.
Dates:
- Check in: 2025-05-11
- Check out: 2025-05-18
- 7 nights
Weather:
- Mix of sunny and rainy
- High temps 67-81°F, lows 44-61°F
- Some wind, gusts to 27 MPH
Noise:
- Some freeway noise
- No train horn noise
- A bunch of neighbor noise (kids)
Site:
- #C21, pull-through, gravel
- Buddy site, with neighbor passenger side facing us on both sides (ugh)
- Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
- Fairly level site; high on passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
- Gravel driveway about 70 feet long by 8 feet wide
- 35 feet to neighbors on both sides
- Just grass between sites
- Picnic table
- Fire pit
- Some tall trees
- Somewhat clean site
- Elevation 620 feet, front facing due west
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 50 PSI very hard water, conveniently located
- Unthreaded sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- Starlink: 130-300 Mbps down, 7-30 Mbps up, 30-40 ms ping
- T-Mobile: 380-430 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 75-210 ms ping, unreliable
- AT&T: 128-142 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 65 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 0.5-7 Mbps up, 60 ms ping (our SIM has 5 Mbps max)
- Campground Wi-Fi: not used
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Pool
- Package delivery to office, at no charge (uncommon for Thousand Trails nowadays)
Our review on Campground Reviews:
A Nice Thousand Trails Campground
This place was typical of an older Thousand Trails campground, but the communal areas looked new and well-maintained. Like all other TT properties, they have switched to assigned sites, which I prefer. A word of warning, however, because the map they have online when you click the link in your confirmation email is highly outdated. Our original assignment was B2, which, on the old map, was a 15A site, which would not suffice, and we had some angst about what we’d do if that were the case. Thankfully, the map on the website itself was an updated version and showed it as a 50A & water site. When we checked in, however, the lovely lady at the front desk informed us that we would be in C-18, which was a full-hookup site. I wasn’t too happy about it since all the pull-throughs are buddy sites (I’d rather not have a sewer connection than have a buddy site). However, she very sweetly moved us to C-21, which was still a buddy site but had larger grassy areas between the sites, so we weren’t cheek-by-jowl with our neighbors, so it all worked out.
One of the best things about this campground is that it is one of the few Thousand Trails campgrounds that 1) still accepts packages for guests, and 2) doesn’t charge for them. It’s also one of the rare TT campgrounds that provides the actual gate code in the pre-arrival email. This is because you need to let yourself in when you arrive and then check in at the welcome center. I’ve been conditioned by past experiences at TT campgrounds to be skeptical of those emails, so it came as a surprise when I needed the gate code upon arrival. We camped at Thousand Trails St Clair in a Motorhome.
Campground map; it says C18, but the check-in person told us C21 was better:
An interactive map:
Our site:
It was a buddy site, which we normally hate, but this wasn’t too bad, since there was a fair bit of space between the sites. Plus it was too cold to want to sit outside, so didn’t bother us too much:
Utilities:
Dusty truck (we did take it through a car wash after this, though it was dirty again a few days later from rain):
We added the Michigan sticker to states map, filling a hole:
Just the little NE states left:
Our original site assignment was here, next to that annual site; it would have been fine, but no sewer:
Other sites:
Office:
Playground:
Community campfire:
Little library and game:
Mini golf:
We’d be happy to stay here again.
