Reviews

Trisha Siebel

It’s a beautiful campground. Lovely trees and good river access. However, it was very over occupied. Let’s bring 20 of our closest friends and be totally loud into the wee hours. There are not enough toilets. The toilets were disgusting. I put my Sandals through the washer to get the ick off, because I don’t even want the soles if my shoes touching that. I had interaction with the host and they did not give a crap about anything. If you like overcrowding and an over abundance of trashy people and really bad toilets this is your place.

Marc O.

We have been to this campground at least 5 times over the past couple of years with the most recent on being a couple weekends ago. We had a great time fishing and hearing the water. Unfortunately it is starting to have large groups (20+ people) combining on units that were using a guitar and singing late and also early in the morning. Smells a lot more "organic" than other times. Toilets were pretty high, but seemed to have been cleaned mid weekend.

Des V

Great river access on the c loop and great river for swimming. Some water for refilling and dump toilets but otherwise dry camping

Angel WithTheScabbedWings

Actual tent spot was okay, river was beautiful BUT too rocky. The trails down to river were also very steep. Wouldn't recommend for disabled, elderly or children. To get from place to place you have to carefully walk over large boulders, which made me fall & hurt my back. The river itself has no soft ground, it's all slippery rocks that cause you to be unstable can't really enjoy the water when you're worried about falling, hurting yourself. The bathrooms were disgusting, nobody cleaning up feces, no sink or sanitizer available. Trash everywhere.

Bokot Bokot

Spots open for winter/fall is easily flooded, some RV left when it started raining heavily. The host went to our spot in pouring rain to make sure we had paid the "honor system". Only 1 restroom is open (Oct 2022) and that's in the 'main' camping spot. Most spots are spacious and shielded by trees or bushes, can be loud as it is by the road (not super busy though). No electricity but there is potable water in the campground. Our car died and we needed help to jump start it, host refused to help us as "it was against the rules" which to me defeated the purpose of having a host since they will not help. There is NO cell service. About 25min out of Town.

Jayne Cravens

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 all the loops.

Barb Weeks

Awesome place. There was only me and one other camper in the whole campground. It was awesome.

katsumi afton

Amazing me and my family camped here for 2 nights and there are a bunch of trails that lead to some swimming areas that are deep for the tall people and shallow for the short people not to offend anyone!!!

Mike Frost

This is the second time my friends have camped here. I love the campground and the camp hosts are great. But this year as a group we had 4 coolers plus odds and ends stolen. In total the campers had 10-12 coolers stolen. Come to find out there a few bad apples in town. Make sure you lock everything thing up and watch out for shady characters.

vince price

One of my favorite late season steelhead fishing spots. No pressure and beautiful peaceful surroundings

Jessica Alfaro

Best Campground yet! The summer of 2018 has definitely been the best camping experience we have had. The hosts Tim and Ronnie are freaking amazing! Very thoughtful and attentive, on the weekend of July 7 there were kids shooting off fireworks from the bridge. When they went to investigate all the little hoodlums had run off. Its 2 hosts for the whole C area. Don't expect the hosts to keep tabs on the adults and their kids. We're adults as it is. So we're responsible for ourselves. On the weekend of July 21 they ran out of wood. We went on Sunday to buy more from them in the am and they were sold out. Tim informed that the nearest place to purchase was Fred Meyers in Tillamook. A couple hours later he drove by to inform us they has more wood somehow. They saved us a trip into town! People leaving negative reviews because they're "not strict and don't enforce the rules" come on now you guys. Go to Kilchis Campground, park hosts there will shut any kind of noise (even your kids playing) down at 9 P.M. If you want a chill vibe and good place for an amazing time, this is your spot. This summer we have loved this site's swimming hole, floating down the river, and the privacy which is better than other campgrounds.

Lauren Kent

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 the East side.