If you are curious...Tacoma Power has a series of campgrounds around Morton, Wa. Alder Lake, Mossyrock, Taidnapum--each of these campgrounds are beautiful, well-appointed, and economical. They are popular, too--but that would be expected.
We have a lot of experience with the Washington State campground system, and any of the Tacoma Power sites would be cleaner, better maintained, and easy to visit. Best part: they have better year-round schedules than the state campgrounds, being open most days all year long.
We live near Tacoma, so getting to any of these places is easy for us--our last stay at Alder Lake Campground require a 60-minute drive from our home. What a delightful, easy get-away for a weekend.
The on-line reservation system is pretty slick, too....
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Thanks for the info on the camping over there. Im in the Tri-Cities and am always looking for new places to check out. I checked out their website and they look like beautiful parks. We will have to wander over that way for one of our outings. How are the site sizes?
Quote from: psparks06Thanks for the info on the camping over there. Im in the Tri-Cities and am always looking for new places to check out. I checked out their website and they look like beautiful parks. We will have to wander over that way for one of our outings. How are the site sizes?
The site-size varies with the campgrond, the camping area within the campground, and site location--as you might imagine. However....
If you look at the individual campground websites, Tacoma Power puts some additional commentary on each campsite in the park--stuff like whether the site gets morning or afternoon sun, how secluded the site might be, whether you can use it with a tent, camper, RV, etc. We found the description of the site we chose to be pretty accurate--we had no surprises when we got there.
The National Park Service seems to be doing the same thing with their campgrounds--the Ohanapecosh website (campground in Mt. Rainier National Park) had pretty good descriptions of all their camping-sites--right down to actual site-dimensions in many cases.
These Tacoma Power campgrounds are (pretty much) open all year 'round. We're attracted to the notion of trying them when the rain begins to fall, and lots of other campers stay home.