Crow Butte Park — Attraction in Prosser

This is a beautiful campground. The children's pay park is one of the best that we have ever seen and we travel full time. The spots have full hookups, a picnic table and a fire pit. $40 a night for a trailer.

Here is the problem. We got in at dusk, set up and went inside because we were just traveling through and needed a place to stay for the night. We set our houseplants, tricycle, and chairs outside. In the morning closing the trailer back up, we found hundreds of massive spiders. And spider eggs in everything. They are not only infesting the bushes, trees, picnic tables and firepits. They already moved into our stuff and are hanging off the trailer. Nesting in our closed up lawn chairs, in our plants, on the tricycle. In the wheel chalks. On the sewage and powers hookups. These massive monster, striped legged spiders got into everything. I can't imagine being in a tent with these guys scurrying around. IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF SPIDERS, THEN YOU WONT ENJOY THIS CAMPGROUND BECAUSE THESE ARE SO BIG UGLY FAST MOVING SPIDERS. It took us twice as long to close up to ensure we don't get any of these suckers in the trailer that will be crawling around with our baby. Spiders don't normally bother us but we aren't sure what kind of spiders these are so don't want to take any risk with the baby. The spiders are about 2 inches. Their legs are stripped, and their butts are round and spotted brown. The butt alone is like the size of a dime.

We don't reccomend...

‼️SPIDER ALERT‼️ I have never in my 40 years of camping ever experienced the INSANE amount of large spiders in this campground!! I’m not an expert but I would go as far as to say they have an infestation. The spiders were all over the 3 campsites we had. As we continued on with our stay we were constantly killing large spiders. They were on our trailers, our pick ups, inside the engines. They had laid eggs in our corn hole boards, a pair of shoes, tire covers, the underside of the hood of our truck! They were all over the trees, you could see huge ones in their webs even at the tops of the trees. They were on the outside of the bathroom buildings, they were on the benches at the playground, they were on some of the playground equipment. It was the coolest playground equipment too, our grandkids thought it was awesome but could only use part because of spiders. We are home and are still killing spiders that have made the trip back with us. We just killed 3 more on our truck, our kids just killed 10 between their truck...

This is a restricted access, island based park and campground. Restrooms were closed and locked when I visited, as was the entry shack and a concession stand despite it being noon on a summer Monday. Signs were plastered everywhere reinforcing their rules, which were many. There is a day-use fee but no envelopes were provided to collect it and the park host was not around. The park itself was pretty, with lots of shade from mature trees, and plenty of well manicured grass for picnicking. The dock and boat ramp is large, with plenty of parking, there is a campground farther along the road, but unless you have paid reservations you aren't even allowed to drive through to check it out first. Surveillance cameras in use and speed (5-15 mph limit) is monitored by radar. Honestly, although it was a lovely area, I got the distinct feeling they are trying to limit access to an exclusive clientele!! I will not go back and wouldn't even consider paying to camp there. There are nicer places to spend the day by the river...