Ancient Redwoods RV Park — Local services in Fortuna

This seemed to be a nice little RV park. Most of the staff seemed friendly and helpful. The sites are close (maybe 10' between RVs) and there is very little privacy but I knew that beforehand. What turned my opinion of this campground to the bad side was my interactions with either the manager or the owner. ||||The first was him unlocking the shower room and opening the door while I was unclothed and soaking wet because he had heard that there was possibly a transient in the area. Really? Is it that utterly important that a transient be denied a shower that you barge into an occupied shower?||||The second had to do with campground maintenance. One morning before we were leaving to go see the sights he had a string trimmer out and was whacking away at the grass and weeds on all of the sites, occupied or not. Grass clippings were flung about on our outdoor stuff and small stones thwacked against the sides and windows of the RV. ||||After returning later that day I discovered that our outdoor mat had a corner chewed up and a note on the door saying "Oops, please come to the front office". Apparently he also runs the mower through set up sites!||||At the front office he offered me $20 for my troubles. When I said that it was a $65 mat and had the Amazon order up on my phone, he got irate, pulled $65 from the till and said that he had just bought the mat. I really didn't think much of it, but when I exited the office he had already (somehow) gotten to his golf cart and was literally halfway to the site to go repossess the mat. I couldn't believe it!||||When I confronted him about it he "graciously" offered to let us continue to use it for the rest of our stay.||||I wanted to like this RV park, but management soured it...

This seemed to be a nice little RV park. Most of the staff seemed friendly and helpful. The sites are close (maybe 10' between RVs) and there is very little privacy but I knew that beforehand. What turned my opinion of this campground to the bad side was my interactions with either the manager or the owner.

The first was him unlocking the shower room and opening the door while I was unclothed and soaking wet because he had heard that there was possibly a transient in the area. Really? Is it that utterly important that a transient be denied a shower that you barge into an occupied shower?

The second had to do with campground maintenance. One morning before we were leaving to go see the sights he had a string trimmer out and was whacking away at the grass and weeds on all of the sites, occupied or not. Grass clippings were flung about on our outdoor stuff and small stones thwacked against the sides and windows of the RV.

After returning later that day I discovered that our outdoor mat had a corner chewed up and a note on the door saying "Oops, please come to the front office". Apparently he also runs the mower through set up sites!

At the front office he offered me $20 for my troubles. When I said that it was a $65 mat and had the Amazon order up on my phone, he got irate, pulled $65 from the till and said that he had just bought the mat. I really didn't think much of it, but when I exited the office he had already (somehow) gotten to his golf cart and was literally halfway to the site to go repossess the mat. I couldn't believe it!

When I confronted him about it he "graciously" offered to let us continue to use it for the rest of our stay.

I wanted to like this RV park, but management soured it...

We stayed 3 nights at Ancient Redwoods RV park. The park is only being filled to 60% capacity due to COVID-19 and social distancing restrictions. You must reserve ahead of time. They leave your reservations taped to the outlet box at your campsite. ||The park is literally on The Avenue of the Giants and that makes for some very convenient hiking/walking. There is a little gift shop at the entrance and also The Immortal Tree for a photo op and a very large redwood.||Each site has a grassy area and and baby tree. So while you are literally surrounded by giant redwoods, your campsite is in the sun and it can get very hot.||It cools off in the evening allowing you to pick blackberries along the fence (we did) and make blackberry pancakes (we also did) and that was YUMMY! It’s too hot to walk your dogs on the pavement during the day.||Very close by are two ways to get down to the eel river by car for a cool off (but it’s hot on the river too)and also the little town of Redcrest and it’s very fine gift shop. $10 t-shirts. Not bad. ||There are laundry facilities at the park and showers. All closed right now due to the virus. ||You will get absolutely no cell phone service in the park but they will give you free vouchers for WiFi. Refrain from streaming and the vouchers will last the entire trip. If you use them up, you will have to pay for more. As soon as you get out of the park, your phone should be back on. ||Overall, aside from state parks which are hard to either fit in due to your rig size, or other RV parks which may or may not be sketchy, this was a quiet, clean park centrally located to go South or North for day trips. ||I would...