Twin Harbors State Park — Attraction in Hoquiam

As we end this year's exhausting camping trip to Twin Harbors State park we would like to voice our concern about a power hungry and very rude staff at this location. We were told numerous times by citation and in person of all the violations we were incurring on our sites. One of our group was even asked if they would appreciate it if they came and parked on our grass, even though they were only parked there to unload. Our family has been camping here since 1983 and has grown from a four day weekend of two adults and two kids to three sites, 10 adults and 14 grandchildren staying ten days. We treat our sites with respect never setting up a tent where there is dune grass and never parking a tent trailer anywhere but the parking stall. In all the years we've come we have never been a problem for park staff and even during years of wetter than normal weather were actually praised by your staff for sticking it out and continuing to have fun. For this year without warning the parking was shortened and we were treated as, what we felt was, criminals because our large tents didn't fit in the ridiculous sand pads within 18 inches of fire pit. Or that our dogs were touching the grass within the campsite. Or that our kids were playing in the grass by our tents. We asked the temp help, you hired to drive around and tell us about all the things we aren't allowed to do, if they were concerned about pushing away loyal repeat visitors like us? They didn't feel there would be any affect from this treatment because they already have to turn away so many campers. Funny though...we are there from Monday to Thursday and can count on two hands how many sites have campers in them. No offense but without our and other large groups extended stay you would be losing the little mid week revenue you receive as it is. If this is a sign of what the future of Twin Harbors or Wa State Parks in general is to become then please tell me now so we can discontinue any and all support of this and/or any parks and so we can spend our 10 days worth of three sites elsewhere. I can foresee the effect this is also going to have on the small town of Westport with the amount of time and $1000s we spend over the ten days we are here. Thanks, from a very concerned and disappointed longtime...

Stayed mid July 2021. The campground is very clean, has a decent bathroom with hot showers ($), and close to the walkway to the beach and only a few miles to Westport. Quiet, friendly campers who were respectful of the burn ban - no wood or charcoal fires allowed at the time (propane is okay). Privacy is so-so on the B loop but pretty much non-existent on the A side.

Had a reservation to camp here for 4 nights, but had car trouble on the long drive out and could only stay the last 3 nights instead. We arrived to find that our site (55) had severe road noise. While most WA campgrounds I've considered list this as a warning for specific sites or the campground in general, Twin Harbors does not. Bring earplugs if you plan to stay in sites 52-61 (although combining 52-55 would otherwise be perfect for groups). Some of those sites only had a few trees between the tent area and Highway 105.

I checked online and found multiple sites still available for the rest of our stay, that were much further from the road and completely silent. However the younger girl working the camping registration would not accommodate this change. Had I pulled up without a reservation, I could have site 78 (for example), but since it wasn't available at the start of our reservation the day before she would not make the change. This was beyond frustrating. I almost paid for 3 more nights just to book away from the highway noise.

Luckily we did have earplugs, although our first night without them was really low quality sleep. But we enjoyed walking the beach, exploring the unique fishing town of Westport, kayaking in the bay, attempting and failing at clamming, and I dropped a crab pot near the green buoy marker to the right of the marina, and landed a few Dungeness crab in only 22' of water. Had a great time, but we will not be back.

They need to add a warning about the serious road noise, and be more accommodating when people want to move AWAY from that road noise...

I have camped a lot in my 34 years of living in the west coast. I’ve camped at many state parks, hiked for miles into unknown land, in the woods etc. twin harbors is the absolute worst camping experience I’ve ever had. We checked into our spot at 3pm and we were ready to leave by 3:05. We parked the truck got out to see where to put the tent etc. did not even get the tailgate on the truck open to unload before my wife, 12 year old daughter and I were literally swarmed with mosquitos. Within just several minutes we all were being eating alive (literally). My daughter was crying within 5 minutes of being there cause the pain and agony from the mosquitos were so bad. Before we unloaded the truck we drove back to check in to see if we could get a different spot, (maybe one more open with less mosquitos). The girl working the window said she could not do that and her boss told her no more refunds because other people and already canceled the same day for the same problem. We had planned to stay 3 nights but we could not stay more than 5 minutes cause the mosquitos were SO bad. We left without a refund. The office don’t answer the phone, they don’t care about your experience, they don’t care that with covid 19 they have extreme issues with bugs that bight through your skin and carry disease. This place is an absolute joke. I will do everything in my power to see that this Washington state park is closed for good. Horrible horrible horrible. Do not go here. Unless you like being eaten alive. And for the record. I understand that while camping there will be some mosquitos but this is literally an infestation and the park knows about it but does nothing to fix it. No other state parks in Oregon or Washington have a...