What is you favorite campground?

[swanny]

The campgrounds up Icicle Creek road in Leavenworth are great in the summer time. You have the river and tons of hiking and biking to do in the summer time.

As a kid, we went to Keller Ferry every summer in August for 2 weeks. Always will be my favorite place to go. Now my parents have property up the lake in Lincoln. Can't wait until I have kids and get to take them over on the lake for fishing and wakeboarding.

[huntnnw]

Dont be to hard on the camp hosts  they have had a great effect on keeping the riffraff either out or certainly in line  families where fed up going camping and having to put up or be driven out by a bunch of drunk louts doing whatever they pleased
[/quotI]

I had a horrendous experience in Kooskia,ID last year with a camp hosts and my family....cops were called..needless to say we packed up and left for another camp at 10pm

[TangoU]

Grayland Beach State Park was mentioned above. It's a great place and my kids absolutely love it.  We go there every year. My favorite childhood campground is Lodge Pole, which is off Hwy 410 just east of Chinook Pass. It doesn't look like much, but when I was a kid we used to swim and fish for trout in the river, look for spawning salmon, ride our bicycles and hike the trails.  My brother and I probably cajoled our dad into going back there every year we were kids.

Yeah, campgrounds can be a pain sometimes.  But it's also easier sometimes. Quality comes during quantity. If you have kids, and you help create these memories for them of being outdoors and sleeping under the stars, fishing, swimming, and all that, then you will have created that next generation of outdoorsmen and women. An that's a good thing. 
 
-Allen

[Camp David]

My all time favorite is Jones Island State park in the San Juans. Very few people on the island and salmon fishing and dungness crab is close by.

[MikeWalking]

The campgrounds up Icicle Creek road in Leavenworth are great in the summer time. You have the river and tons of hiking and biking to do in the summer time.

I use to use those a lot in the 80's while guiding on the Wenatchee.  Mom and Dad had a favorite, 8 Mile, I think.  We spread his ashes up there.

[timberghost72]

For family camping the wife and I have always liked Soda Springs campground off of Bumping Lake road. Our camping style is split pretty evenly between state campgrounds (always too crowded) National forest campgrounds and just finding a spot somewhere up in the hills. Boneapart Lake and the couple campgrounds near there are nice too and not crowded.


The worst place we have ever been was Mardon Resort. Hated that place.

[pianoman9701]

Not tellin'. It's free and has services.

[netcoyote]

When my kids were young, we liked to camp with several other families at Lyon's Ferry SP over near Washtucna along the Snake River. We would go for the Memorial day weekend because it usually had nice weather and was a good way for us west-siders to get a good dose of much needed sun and warm, dry air. It was an annual event for us for many years until the kids grew up. It was  big enough to never feel overcrowded and I don't recall ever having problems with the usual campground jerks.
Today, I rarely go to any established CG and usually camp out of the bed of my truck or where I can haul my small trailer  as far away from the masses as possible. Now I have grandkids coming along so I may try to revisit some of those good times back at Lyon's Ferry.

[NRA4LIFE]

One of my favorites is on Granite Lake up above Bumping.  Kinda rough getting up there and the fishing kinda sucks but it's a great place to go and chill for a few days.  Our elk camp in the little Naches is always great.

Headed to Grayland Beach this week.  It's nice when the clam season is open as you can walk out right from camp.

[Sumpnneedskillin]

When my kids were young, we liked to camp with several other families at Lyon's Ferry SP over near Washtucna along the Snake River. We would go for the Memorial day weekend because it usually had nice weather and was a good way for us west-siders to get a good dose of much needed sun and warm, dry air. It was an annual event for us for many years until the kids grew up. It was  big enough to never feel overcrowded and I don't recall ever having problems with the usual campground jerks.
Today, I rarely go to any established CG and usually camp out of the bed of my truck or where I can haul my small trailer  as far away from the masses as possible. Now I have grandkids coming along so I may try to revisit some of those good times back at Lyon's Ferry.

Lyon's Ferry SP is no more.  You can stay across the river at the KOA.

[TangoU]

For family camping the wife and I have always liked Soda Springs campground off of Bumping Lake road.

This is another of my childhood faves.  I haven't had a chance to take my own kids there yet, though. Maybe this summer.

One of my favorites is on Granite Lake up above Bumping.  Kinda rough getting up there and the fishing kinda sucks but it's a great place to go and chill for a few days. 

Agree, another cool place.  And again a place I went as a kid, too. 

[hoytem]

The campgrounds up Icicle Creek road in Leavenworth are great in the summer time. You have the river and tons of hiking and biking to do in the summer time.

As a kid, we went to Keller Ferry every summer in August for 2 weeks. Always will be my favorite place to go. Now my parents have property up the lake in Lincoln. Can't wait until I have kids and get to take them over on the lake for fishing and wakeboarding.

keller ferry is one of my fav's as well. I saw my first 5 bears while camping there. rode right up to a sow and two cubs on the old jet ski.

[alecvg]

I agree, not a fan of campgrounds, but I do really like Silverline on Pearygin in the summer, when you got a big group of people, its a ton of fun!

[SemperFidelis97]

I have tried a few campgrounds in the past with friends who swore they were the cat's meow, but I just really felt crowded.  I guess I was spoiled growing up I had grandparents that had property on lakes on both sides of the mountain.  My wife, and I bought property of our own on a lake about ten years ago if we are going camping for anything, but hunting that is usually where we end up.

[seansfire]

Hamma Hamma campground off of Highway 101 near Quilicene