Seattle / Tacoma KOA Journey

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Closed forever It's a great campground. It is centrally located, good staff, great guests, grounds are well maintained. Many of these reviews cancel each other out. One person complains they can't drive over the grass the next complains about the mud caused by the person driving on the grass. One person complains because their rv is too old the other complains because they think other person's rv looks "like a homeless person's". Then you get the people who are obviously bending the truth and presenting only one side of a story because they don't like following rules or they are trying to get away with paying a lower price or get something for free.

Brian Swartzfager

We stayed here a few nights in order to visit with some friends in Seattle. The campground is right off of a fairly busy 2-lane road. As soon as you turn into the campground, turn right to go to the office and stay right to park in the check-in lane. We stayed in site 4, a pull-through site on the end of a row near the office: we picked that one because it looked like it was easy to get into, and it was. But while the site was easily long enough to fit our 37-foot fifth wheel, it was not long enough to also park our 20-foot long truck. We could maybe have parked it sideways across the front of the site (which a lot of other folks opted to do), but we felt it was safer to park the truck in the parking lot by the office. While the parking lot is fairly large, there were usually only one or two free spaces at any given time. And while we had no trouble getting into our site, we could have had trouble leaving the site: because of the size of the site and the proximity of the next site, we would not have been able to pull forward and turn out of the site without hitting something, not with a trailer of our length. Even though our neighbor did leave before us, we opted to keep it simple and back out of the site. So the sizes of the sites give the campground a cramped feeling. The only areas that feel open are the back end of the campground where a fence marks the boundary between the park and a wetlands area, and the recreation area behind the office. The recreation area has a playground and some games (like the oversized chess board), and a theatre area where they show a movie on a projector screen most nights (they were showing “Top Gun” on the night we arrived). The office is fairly typical for a KOA and had a store with souvenir items, RV equipment, and some convenience store areas. We were able to walk our dogs along the outskirts of the campground and we occasionally took them to the fenced-in dog park, which has two entrance gates (non-airlock style) within a dozen feet of each other: it made me think that maybe it used to be two separate dogs parks at some point. In terms of cell service, the best speed I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna during our stay was about 80Mbps down and 20Mbps up, and other than the occasional buffering we had no trouble steaming video while we were there. The one speed test I did with my AT&T phone showed 94Mbps down and 24 up. The recreation area and the floral landscaping shows that they’re trying to make the best of what they have to work with, but they really need to focus on improving the interior roads and give campers the space to safely enter and exit the sites.

David Kaga

PLEASE NOTE: THIS PARK WILL BE PERMANENTLY CLOSING ON 10/31/2021 - Too bad... It appears that the land is more valuable as a warehouse and parking lot than a family friendly campground It's a good enough place for a few nights to do business in the Kent area. Staff is super friendly, some of the spots are a bit run down and no longer level, but I certainly understand that they don't want to put any more money into the place for 6 more weeks...

Dan

Let me make this perfectly clear, you don't wanna go here.. The list of reasons why not is extremely lengthy and if you really want to know the answer of what they are try and spend a night here and you'll be telling people the same thing I'm telling you, you don't want to go here. Small spaces and I really mean small. Holes in the road that haven't been fixed for a year. Next to a main road which starts getting noisy around 5:30AM. This place is selling so they are letting it fall apart, because they have their money coming already. Ya , "Go KOA"

David Larson

Really fun experience. Cute campground with older, but usable playground and pool. Nice set up for a movie at night (Aladdin) with popcorn. Close bathroom that was very clean. Note: there was a manure smell that was off-putting. I don't think the business can control it. There is a large field nearby. If you're sensitive to smells, rethinking booking, maybe.