Pastime Park — Hotel in Plain City

This was our second time visiting Pastime Park and although it is very pretty with the trees and grass, there are no sewer hookups, however they do have a service that will come and empty your tanks on-site for $10. Check with the office on what days he comes. My main complaint is that the entire park becomes swampy when it rains. We have a 43' very heavy 5th wheel towed by a long bed Ford F450 dually and when I checked our site it was surrounded by standing water and mud on the sides. Knowing I would have difficulty maneuvering into the site I looked around to find a more suitable site that would not require me to drive on the grass. I called the office and left a message that I was moving into a vacant site, more suitable for my big heavy 5th wheel. As we started to set up, the camp host showed up and said we had to move as that site was already reserved. At this point the park was not even half full and there were plenty of other gravel sites available. I asked if they could simply move whomever they had scheduled for that spot and give them my old swampy spot as I was sure his rig was not as big as mine and definitely not as heavy. My GVW is almost 27,000lbs. They we unwilling to do that because there was a group of 4 RV's going into the adjoining sites and they wanted to be together. I explained that what is the difference if one is across the narrow road no more than 10 steps away. They wouldn't budge. I tried for another site and nope, they had someone coming in for that one. All of the RV's that came in stayed 3 or 4 days and were gone and only 2 or the group of 4 showed up at all. I begged them to give me a different site and warned them that if I was forced to go to the original site, there was a high probability that I would get stuck in the mud. We stay here because it is the most convenient campground to our friends that we visit when in the area. So, with no other choice but to leave andvtry to find another campground over Memorial Day weekend, even though there were 2 ideal empty sites for my large heavy rig, they left me no choice. So after warning them again that I would probably get stuck in the mud, I attempted to back in to the swampy site and sure enough, got stuck half in and half out of the site. Fortunately, with the help of another RVer, we were able to get out of the muck and then after a lot of manuevering, successfully got into the site. We stayed 6 nights and during that time our site was surrounded by low lying water causing swampy conditions. Every time I had to walk around the rig on either side or the rear, my feet would be in a couple of inches of water and often, mud. They should have temporarily closed that site as a safety and health hazard. Low lying water attracts mosquitoes. If you stay there when it's dry, it is a quiet picturesque location. If it has rained a lot, stay away from Lot 50 and understand that if you don't like the site you are assigned,...

2021 EDIT: I returned recently and can say that the promised upgrades have been made. In the men's shower there are now individual changing stations. The grounds are well kept.

There are only TWO downsides to this place. First, it needs more full service hookups, and second, the noise from Rt42 - which is out of their control. This is a public park which rents campsites also. Basically, it's a field with oddly spaced water and electrical taps. As such the "spaces" are highly irregular. To make it worse the nature oaks are sometimes in the wrong spot. For example, lot 17, which is my lot this weekend, has an oak in the middle. I had to snake my trailer around it! Luckily I have a small camper. I don't know what someone with a 5th-wheel would do.

While the restroom/shower house is newer, no thought went into its layout. For the men's the showers do not have individual changing rooms, rather there is one bench in the middle. No problem for me, I'm not shy, but ITS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE DOOR!! So it's quite possible that any child who opens the door could see a complete stranger changing, and any girl who happened to have the right angle as well. Is this really how the citizens of Plain City want their children introduced to the naked body?!

There are mature oaks which provide some shading, hence the 2 star rating. US Route 42 is near by and provides constant vehicle noise. The sites are all grassy as mentioned but are also pitted with ankle breaker holes that are...

We used this as an overnight stop on our way south for the winter. The fact that it is open this time of year, and offers full hook ups, is a huge plus. It was easy finding our way to the park coming in from the north on 23, it is a long trek in from the highway. Once there, we found our site easily, but I had done my homework ahead of time so I knew the layout of the park and where our site was. It was well after dark when we arrived as there was an accident on highway 42 that had us held up for great length. Would like to have had pull through sites available, but the back in worked just fine. It was plenty long enough that I backed the toad in first, and then the motorhome, which allowed me to connect the toad back up before calling it a night. The route out the next morning back to 23 was easy and dropped us conveniently after Columbus. Was a good pick and will use this park again in the future. We camped at Pastime Park in...