Sunset Falls Campground — Hotel in Battle Ground

If you want to camp at Sunset Falls for FREE read full review.

16 miles east of Battleground Washington & 6.1 miles from cell phone reception.

I absolutely love this campground for the main reason that it’s not on the way to anywhere other than the destination. Pedestrian traffic is pretty light and the campground is usually fairly empty except for peak summer months.

There is zero cell phone reception. The closest I had to drive was 6.1 miles down Sunset Falls Road to get one bar of reception on my phone.

Attached are several photos and videos of individual campsites. The campsite videos were originally longer than 30 seconds however Google auto shorten them. I feel that the photos and videos speak for themselves.

Additional photos and videos of the actual falls are under a review that I made of Sunset Falls day use area. I was not able to upload any more than 50 photos/videos on to the campground review.

In the event that the campground is completely full. There is FREE off grid camping located along the river farther up the road. When driving to Sunset Falls Campground drive by the turn off for the campground following directions to the day use area. There will be an initial overflow parking lot turn off and then a turn off for the main day use area that is closest to the short walk to the Sunset Falls viewpoint. Drive past both these parking lots to where the pavement ends. If you continue on the gravel road that has potholes so deep, they will swallow a subcompact car there are 3 FREE established campsites within a half a mile of where the pavement ends, YES IT IS PERMITTED AND LEGAL TO CAMP IN THESE SITES. However they are not maintained by any camp host & the locals like to rip up and down the roads late at night on the weekends which could be intimidating to timid campers.

The only negatives for me and the reason why this campground doesn’t have five stars is that there is no running water, the pit toilets are always in horrible condition, and the campground itself could be better maintained.

I brought my own portable toilet as that the last time I was at this campground I could not use the pit toilets because of how unbearable the smell was. It was much preferred to walk out in the middle of the woods and pop a squat.

See my review under “Sunset Falls Day Use” icon on Google maps for additional photos and videos of the actual Falls...

The camp host and her son were completely unprofessional and rude to my friends and I when we went camping.

The woman yelled at me after I asked why we owed more for parking after I had already paid the $18 needed the day before. She proceeded to say she never received a payment from me without even first asking what name was on the envelope and even after I told her the name she still said she didn't have it. She then told me to get out of her way so she could drive over to my camp site to deal with this. I told her no one was at my campsite because everyone was down at the river while I was handling this, but she went anyway instead of just talking to me. Meanwhile her son just sitting back in his chair laughing at the whole thing.

I honestly don't know if it was my hair or face or what but she was very aggressive towards me and I remember wondering why she was directing all this rage at me instead of just trying to first help figure out what happened.

I started walking back and I saw the host was at another camp site. I wanted to go talk to her and clear the air to see if she had figured out what had happened and when I approached the cart she told me to get away from her and raised her hand and pointed to my car where she had given me the blue tag I originally needed.

Upon my arrival back into the campsite I was told she was found waiting for someone else to return where she proceeded to yell and harass them.

It was a shameful display.

A lot of my friends and I had been looking forward to this camping trip for over 3 months. The spot itself was nice and we had fun when we could, but I will probably...

Nice location, but overnight camping is meh at best. Not much privacy with the reserved sites, and the walk-in sites are all together in a weird meadow, so it would probably be like sharing a group site with a bunch of random people. It’s fine if you don’t need privacy, but I go camping to get AWAY from people.

I agree with other reviews about the camp host killing the vibe. We had a reservation, so we filled out the little form when we arrived and proceeded to our site to set up because we didn’t have much daylight left. Went to the host to get firewood after we got the tent up and were basically b**ched out for not checking in with them as soon as we arrived. We don’t recall seeing any such instructions on the board with all the rules on it. Another time we were just scoping the place out to decide whether we even wanted to stay there for day use and were yelled at because we needed to pay. We were in our vehicle just passing thru and hadn’t even gotten out to look around. Needless to say, we went elsewhere.

Probably won’t stay here again because it’s not really our vibe. But if you don’t mind the lack of privacy and hassling with the camp host over petty things, it really is a very pretty location with several hiking...