Big Creek Campground — Hotel in Graham

I'm an avid camper, and the experience I had at this campground with the host was ABSOLUTELY THE WORST ever. We arrived at the campground early to find the best spot as we were planning to take some outdoor wedding photos at the campsite the day after. It was not a busy season, so there were only a couple of sites occupied. We carefully selected a spot, paid for it, and posted the receipt on the site clip. I took a photo of both the envelope and the receipt clipped at the site. ||After exploring the national park, we arrived at the campground at around 9pm. Most of the campsites were still unoccupied. To our surprise, when we arrived at our reserved spot, there was a group of people who took our campsite! They already put up their tent and a canopy as well. When I checked the pole where I clipped the receipt, it was GONE & REPLACED by someone else's!! ||When I talked to those people who took our campsite, there were already drunk and were at the verge of becoming hostile. But they did tell us that the host "allowed" them to take the spot. ||Right then and there, we went to the host and explained the situation, and the host said (1) we never paid and that (2) there was no receipt clipped at the site. When I told him that that wasn't true, he proceeded to tell me that the information I wrote on the clip let him know that we were checking out today. So, for a second, I thought maybe I wrote either the # of nights spent or check-out date incorrectly. But then, I remembered I took pictures of both the envelope and the receipt!! I showed the photos to him, then, of course, he could not lie his way out of this.||There was no apology, and he simply proceeded to tell us to sleep at one of the other available campsites. We were super furious because we had NEVER experienced this kind of rudeness, lies, and brazen behavior. ||As anyone can imagine, we did not want to spend another second there, so we demanded a refund, and "MIRACULOUSLY", the envelope (still glued) with our payment was found in his RV. ||I'm reporting the host to the US...

I'm an avid camper, and the experience I had at this campground with the host was ABSOLUTELY THE WORST ever. We arrived at the campground early to find the best spot as we were planning to take some outdoor wedding photos at the campsite the day after. It was not a busy season, so there were only a couple of sites occupied. We carefully selected a spot, paid for it, and posted the receipt on the site clip. I took a photo of both the envelope and the receipt clipped at the site.

After exploring the national park, we arrived at the campground at around 9pm. Most of the campsites were still unoccupied. To our surprise, when we arrived at our reserved spot, there was a group of people who took our campsite! They already put up their tent and a canopy as well. When I checked the pole where I clipped the receipt, it was GONE & REPLACED by someone else's!!

When I talked to those people who took our campsite, there were already drunk and were at the verge of becoming hostile. But they did tell us that the host "allowed" them to take the spot.

Right then and there, we went to the host and explained the situation, and the host said (1) we never paid and that (2) there was no receipt clipped at the site. When I told him that that wasn't true, he proceeded to tell me that the information I wrote on the clip let him know that we were checking out today. So, for a second, I thought maybe I wrote either the # of nights spent or check-out date incorrectly. But then, I remembered I took pictures of both the envelope and the receipt!! I showed the photos to him, then, of course, he could not lie his way out of this.

There was no apology, and he simply proceeded to tell us to sleep at one of the other available campsites. We were super furious because we had NEVER experienced this kind of rudeness, lies, and brazen behavior.

As anyone can imagine, we did not want to spend another second there, so we demanded a refund, and "MIRACULOUSLY", the envelope (still glued) with our payment was found in his RV.

I'm reporting the host to the US...

My boyfriend and I left Seattle in hopes of finding a sweet campsite at Mt. Rainier without reservations in the middle of summer. Foolish us. (We're transplants from Florida, forgive us...we didn't know better.) We were snickered at by park rangers driving into Mt. Rainier, with full campsites. We were grumpy, felt like idiots, and were concerned we'd have to drive all the way back to Seattle and forget our first impromptu PNW camping trip.

Then we came upon Big Creek Campground. I forget her name, but a delightful woman came to greet us in our car, and we held our breath waiting for the bad news, and was ecstatic when she gave us OPTIONS of camp sites. We settled on #8 and then became immediately envious of the campsite next to ours (#6), with a full view of the creek and private little pebble bank. The next morning, the couple who manage the campsite were nice enough to let us move to the nicer campsite when it became available.

It was beautiful.

Not only was it beautiful, the campsite managers were warm and welcoming. Sure, there are no flush toilets or showers---but you're camping. The porta-potty was actually very clean and as an admittedly newby camper and lover of indoor plumbing, I had no issue with it.

It's not crowded and only 15 minutes away from the park entrance. (Which gives you the opportunity to stop in at Copper Creek Inn, which has some killer blackberry pie.)

We are planning another trip...