We stayed at Thousand Trails Soledad Canyon in Acton, California. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A fairly typical Thousand Trails campground, but with a recently renovated 50 amp section with large sites.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-09-29
- Check out: 2024-10-06
- 7 nights
Weather:
- Sunny
- High temps 89-102°F (!), lows 63-73°F
- Negligible wind, gusts to 11 MPH
Noise:
- Some road noise
- Some train horn noise
- Little neighbor noise
Site:
- #K-45, pull-through, sand
- Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
- Mostly level site; high in back and driver side; used hydraulic leveling
- Large sand site about 65 feet long by 40 feet wide
- Picnic table
- A couple of tall trees
- Somewhat unclean site, as usual for Thousand Trails
- Non-invasive ants
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, very conveniently located
- 65 PSI water, very conveniently located
- Good sewer connection, a little inconveniently located (2 10-foot pipes needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- Starlink: 80-95 Mbps down, 15-19 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 35-50 ms ping
- AT&T: 2-6 Mbps down, 0.05-0.25 Mbps up, 40-115 ms ping
- T-Mobile: negligible service
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Pool
- Package delivery to welcome center for $10/package (didn’t use)
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Decent campground close to LA area
The Gold (K) section has all 50A full hookup sites, so we headed that way first. The sites are mostly pull-through and decently sized. We lucked out and got a site on the last row with a gorgeous view of the hills. These sites also have the advantage of being further from the railroad tracks along the park’s edge. The Platinum (B) section is half 50A but has the extreme disadvantage of being buddy sites. Other sections are 30A or W/E only, so there’s something for everyone. We camped at Thousand Trails Soledad Canyon in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
Utilities:
View out our windshield:
From outside:
Watching baseball on TV while griddling pancakes and bacon:
A neighbor had a cute outdoor cat that was curious about our truck:
Clubhouse:
Bathrooms:
Another neighbor site, with lots of space:
Some other sites were also very wide:
It was too hot to walk around to take pictures of other sites, so I flew my drone to get an aerial view; here’s above our site:
This is the 30 amp section, with buddy sites (eww):
Looking back to the 50 amp section where we were:
Heading back down:
We’d be happy to stay here again, though only in the 50 amp section; the rest of the park is 30 amp and buddy sites. Unfortunately, you never know what you’re going to get with Thousand Trails (though they are slowly rolling out a more conventional booking system).
