Trask River County Campground — Hotel in Tillamook

We went in March 2022, and reading the reviews, off season must be the best time: most of the campground is closed and, therefore, it's quiet and the only things in the common area are elk. No crowds. A few, friendly fly fishermen. The campground feels wonderfully remote. Our fellow campers were, thankfully, very quiet. There were just five sites in A loop that could be reserved online, all along the river (and they were full), and three sites in C loop and two more sites in A loop that weren't reservable online but where you could just show up and stay for one night - there was no one in them, and I bet if there is no one in the non-reservable sites, no one would say anything if you stayed two nights in one. We reserved online and got A7, which was terrific, because it was on the end. There was not a lot traffic and none in the night that we ever saw or heard. We hiked through the empty C loop and I get why so many love it, but I think the end of the A loop, with no turnaround (sites 23 to 37), would be terrific, since this section is isolated from the big main campground. If you are tent camping, be warned, there are no picnic shelters (so you have no where dry to cook). Our only complaints, most minor: there's no waste water dumps (for dish water, for instance), the campground map in the info board is out-of-date (shows a lot of now permanently closed campsites), all of the available campsites for winter, that were NOT closed for winter, were not available to reserve online, there's very little hiking outside the campground and the camp host never interacted with anyone at all - he never walked through the campground, never checked on anyone for the entire weekend (I ended up moving the reservation slips on the three sites that were empty on Saturday night because some people were driving up, looking at them, thought they were occupied for the night and left). We love this place and will absolutely return - but off-season. With most of the campground empty, it was terrific to hike through...

This campground has so much potential for greatness, but it's so poorly managed and maintained that it really falls short. There are so many better campgrounds in Oregon - - don't waste your time or money on this one.

We arrived at 4 pm. The signs said to check in with the camp host before setting up the campsite, but the host was out "doing rounds" until 4:40. It was a Saturday in July, and check-in started at 3:30 - this in itself was pretty clown.

The campsite itself was reasonably private and the location was beautiful. However, our reserved site was filthy upon arrival. There was trash all around the site from the previous guests, including random juice boxes, dirty diaper wipes, and assorted paper and plastic trash. The site was also very dirty from extensive use, and hadn't been raked any time recently. Everything that went outside of the car was almost instantly covered in a layer of dirt.

There was firewood for sale, but they stop selling it early in the evening and don't reopen until 10 am. Be aware that if you need more, the nearest store is about 20 minutes away.

The staff decided it was a great time to do rounds with a petrol-powered golf cart before 6 am (but don't bother them with any questions or try to buy firewood off them).

There are two vault toilets for the entire campground, which is not enough for the amount of people. And the dumpsters are in the group camping area, which is a field across the street from the main campground.

All of this would be fine if this place was really inexpensive, but I'm sorry - - for $39 a night for tent camping, I expect a bit more. This wasn't a depricated site in the woods. Take my advice and stay at a campground where the hosts put some pride...

Stayed 3 days at this campground during Memorial Day weekend. The campground was almost completely full with what appeared to be 150 or more people in a small area. As expected, it was a busy weekend. However, while there are rules posted and I saw people in carts and even a few state park vehicles during my stay, no one actually seemed to enforce any of the rules. People were setting off fireworks blaring music, screaming and yelling til well past midnight. The camp sites are very close together so this made sleeping or even just quite conversation difficult. Noise picked back up again around 8am which is much more acceptable.

The camp is right on both sides of the road, with cars passing by within yards of many tents. There are bathrooms, water and trash containers on site in several locations.

"C" section is a wooded area with camping slips that are large enough for an RV and a few tents, and most have their own picnic tables and fire pits, and are have some kind of trees, plants or logs separating the edges. Off to the East side is the main road a few yards away, with a loop of the camp's gravel road in between that and the river on the West side. Very little sun in camp side "C", the trees are very tall. I stayed on this side and there is a small swimming hole that was deep enough to jump off the rocks into on the north end of the river, the trail is a bit steep and my kid had trouble using it.

"A" section was more of a large grass field on the opposite side of the main road. It's a gravel road around the field with places for tents. Very open and sunny, main road to the west of the site and the river on...