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Rondalyn Camping & RV Resort

30 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 1 Cottage

The stretch of coastline between Nanaimo and Ladysmith on Vancouver Island is where the island's temperate interior and its marine-influenced climate combine to create the kind of deeply wooded, creek-threaded landscape that defines the West Coast at its most quietly beautiful. Rondalyn Camping & RV Resort sits on 35 acres of this terrain on the banks of Haslam Creek, nestled in the forest just five minutes from essential services in Ladysmith and a short drive from the ferry connections that link Vancouver Island to the BC mainland. This is a year-round resort that earns its place as one of the island's most complete camping destinations. The resort accommodates guests across full-hookup overnight and seasonal RV sites with 30- and 50-amp service, alongside rental cabins for those who prefer walls and a roof. A heated pool and a spa with hot tub provide warm-season and year-round relaxation that elevates Rondalyn well above the typical campground experience. A par-3 9-hole golf course — genuinely rare in campground amenity packages — gives golfers a gentle, scenic round without leaving the resort. Full laundry facilities, clean washrooms and showers, free Wi-Fi, a playground, outdoor grills, and a gated entrance ensure the practical and recreational fundamentals are covered. Haslam Creek defines the resort's natural character — the sound of moving water threading through the Douglas fir and cedar forest, with river fishing for trout providing an immediate outdoor experience right at camp. A stocked trout pond adds a reliable close-range fishing option for guests who want to cast without hiking far. Miles of hiking and biking trails through the surrounding woodland offer morning exercise with proper old-growth forest atmosphere. The resort's dog park welcomes four-legged travelers, and the forested setting naturally dampens ambient noise, creating genuine quiet that the word "campground" doesn't always promise. Ladysmith's historic 1st Avenue district preserves an attractive collection of heritage storefronts from the coal mining era, and the town's Transfer Beach Park offers a protected harbor swimming area and waterfront green space just down the road. Nanaimo, one of Vancouver Island's largest cities, is ten minutes north — with its waterfront boardwalk, Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park, and ferry service to Horseshoe Bay in Metro Vancouver. The Cowichan Valley wine and cider region lies to the south, producing some of British Columbia's most distinctive terroir-driven beverages in a landscape of vineyards, cideries, and farm markets. Rondalyn is open year-round, and Vancouver Island's mild climate extends the comfortable camping season significantly beyond what mainland BC delivers. Winter camping here has genuine appeal — green, mild, and remarkably uncrowded. Spring brings the island's extraordinary wildflower and migratory bird seasons. Summer delivers the warmest, driest conditions and the busiest activity calendar across the island. Reserve early for summer stays and the BC Day long weekend in August. Come ready to breathe deeply — the forest air on Haslam Creek is its own kind of welcome.

from $26/night

Sun Retreats Birch Bay

271 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites, 5 Onsite RV/Trailers

Sun Retreats Birch Bay in Blaine, Washington, offers 276 full-hookup RV sites and 10 tent sites two miles from the Canadian border, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year behind a gated entrance. Open and standard full-hookup back-in and pull-through categories join a pool, fitness center, disc golf course, and clubhouse. Two hundred seventy-six sites span full hookup back-in 50/30/20-amp, full hookup pull-thru 50/30/20-amp, open full hookup back-in 50/30/20-amp, and open full hookup pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with picnic tables. The open categories give more space and light for guests who prefer it to a treed site. Ten tent sites round out the lodging. A laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The property was formerly Beachwood RV Resort. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a fitness center, clubhouse, disc golf course, tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, golf cart rentals, a playground, and dog park filling the grounds. Biking, fishing, swimming, and picnicking round it out, with a golf course and a state park nearby. Pets are welcome. Birch Bay sits at the northernmost edge of Whatcom County, where Semiahmoo Bay and the protected waters of Drayton Harbor make a marine environment of unusual beauty. Birch Bay State Park adjoins the resort, and Vancouver is a short drive north. Summer is decisively the season in the Pacific Northwest. Reserve well ahead.

from $27/night

Elwha RV Park

51 RV Sites

Elwha RV Park in Port Angeles, Washington, offers 50 RV sites alongside the Elwha River, with 30 and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 45 feet. Seven distinct categories — including big rig and narrow pull-throughs, private back-ins, and pull-ins — sit behind a gated entrance, open all year at the gateway to Olympic National Park. Fifty sites span 30-amp water-and-electric back-ins, big rig 30/50-amp pull-throughs, narrow 30/50-amp pull-throughs, private and standard 30-amp back-ins, and pull-in sites, all carrying full hookups where noted, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Accessible sites are available. Cabins serve guests without a rig. A general store, boutique shop, laundry, dump station, RV storage, restrooms, showers, firewood, and a concierge handle the practical side, with WiFi and recycling throughout. The park is open year-round. On-site recreation is broad: a recreation center, clubhouse, pavilion, sports courts, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, corn hole, walking trails, a playground, a pond, and bike rentals, with a community fire pit for evenings and live music through the season. Mountain biking, hiking, birding, and stargazing all run from the area, with skiing, snowboarding, boating, and a casino nearby. Pets are welcome. The Elwha is the site of the largest dam removal in US history — the 2012 removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon Dams reopened 70 miles of salmon and steelhead habitat, and the river's recovery is ongoing. Olympic National Park's Hurricane Ridge, Lake Crescent, and the Hoh Rainforest are all within reach. Directions: from Port Angeles take US-101 west to the Highway 112 junction, follow 112 about half a mile to the sign, then left onto Lower Dam Road.

Elwha RV Park Olympic National Park RV + Campsite Packages

12 RV Rental + Campsite Packages

Elwha RV Park in Port Angeles, Washington, provides a gated full-service RV resort at the gateway to Olympic National Park, positioning guests in Clallam County's Elwha River valley where one of the most celebrated dam removal and river restoration projects in American conservation history has returned the wild salmon to the Elwha's full watershed for the first time in a century. Situated minutes from the national park's Elwha Valley entrance and Port Angeles's ferry connection to Victoria, British Columbia, the resort serves as the most comprehensively equipped lodging base in the Port Angeles area for guests whose Olympic Peninsula itinerary includes the park's varied ecosystems from temperate rainforest to subalpine meadow. The resort's facility is purpose-built for Olympic National Park visitors who want resort-quality infrastructure alongside maximum park access: gated entrance, full hookup sites with big-rig capability, cabin rentals, bike rentals, a clubhouse, recreation center, pavilion, dog park, general store, boutique shop, walking trails, sports courts for basketball, volleyball, and horseshoes, RV storage, laundry, firewood, and Wi-Fi collectively provide the service depth that extended national park base-camp stays require. The Elwha River flows adjacent to the property, providing the restored wild river access whose ecological transformation since the 2011-2014 dam removal has made the Elwha Valley one of the most significant ecological restoration stories in the Pacific Northwest. The Elwha River dam removal—completed in 2014 when the Glines Canyon and Elwha dams were fully extracted in the largest dam removal project in United States history—restored salmon passage to 70 miles of the Elwha watershed for the first time since 1913, releasing a natural sediment flow that is rebuilding the river's delta and estuary in a real-time ecological experiment observed by scientists and conservationists worldwide. The returning Chinook, coho, and pink salmon runs continue to grow each year as the river's spawning habitat recovers and the lower Elwha Tribe's cultural connection to the salmon is renewed after a century of dam-enforced absence. Olympic National Park encompasses three distinct ecosystems within its 922,000 acres—the glacier-capped Olympic Mountains, the Pacific Coast wilderness beaches, and the temperate rainforests of the Hoh, Quinault, and Queets river valleys where annual rainfall exceeding 140 inches produces the largest temperate rainforest in the Western Hemisphere outside British Columbia. Hurricane Ridge, accessible via a 17-mile paved road from Port Angeles, provides the most accessible subalpine mountain views and winter skiing in the park, rising to 5,242 feet above the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the most dramatic immediate mountain ascent from a coastal community in the lower 48 states. Elwha RV Park operates year-round in the Pacific Northwest's maritime climate, with the summer hiking season from June through September driving peak demand for Olympic National Park access and the late-season salmon viewing on the restored Elwha River creating a compelling fall attraction from October through November when the returning Chinook and coho are most visible in the river's restored spawning gravels below the former dam sites. The Port Angeles-Victoria ferry provides a day-trip international border crossing experience unique among campground day-trip options, and the resort's year-round gated operations and full hookup infrastructure serve the shoulder-season and winter visitors who find Olympic Peninsula crowds significantly reduced outside the summer peak.

Cove RV Park & Country Store

Tucked along a scenic stretch of US Highway 101 where the road hugs the western shore of Hood Canal between the small communities of Quilcene and Brinnon, Cove RV Park and Country Store occupies a rare position at the intersection of Olympic Peninsula wilderness and Hood Canal's extraordinarily productive tidal waters. The park sits within earshot of the great fjord—a biologically remarkable arm of Puget Sound ringed by the Olympic Mountains and renowned for world-class oysters, Dungeness crab, shrimp, and sport fishing that attracts devoted harvesting families throughout the year. A combination of full-hookup RV sites, a refreshed country store, and easy access to rivers, beaches, and marine resources makes Cove one of the Olympic Peninsula's most versatile stopovers. Full-hookup sites with 30/50-amp electrical service, water, sewer, and garbage service are complemented by free cable television and Wi-Fi, and loaner bikes invite exploration of the surrounding highway corridor at a pace the car cannot replicate. A horseshoe pit, outdoor checkers table, and a gazebo with an outdoor cooking area serve as the social center for guests who want to gather without driving anywhere. The on-site country store, refreshed under recent ownership with an emphasis on locally sourced and natural foods, provides fresh provisions for camp cooking or pantry supplementing, and showers, laundry, and a Marple Creek-side trail complete the practical amenity lineup. The waters of Hood Canal just across the highway are the park's greatest natural asset—a protected fjord-like inlet whose cold, nutrient-rich water supports the oysters, manila clams, Dungeness crab, and spot shrimp that have sustained the Hood Canal harvest tradition for generations. Recreational clammers and crabbers work the tidal beaches within minutes of camp, and sport fishermen find several productive rivers within easy driving range for salmon and steelhead runs that define Pacific Northwest angling throughout the fall season. The canal's calm surface accommodates kayaking and small-boat exploration of the forested coves and tidal channels that remain largely undeveloped along the western shoreline. Olympic National Park and the Buckhorn Wilderness begin just west of Highway 101, with trailheads accessing the Quilcene River valley, the Dosewallips State Park trails, and the high-country routes into the eastern Olympic Range that remain snow-clad into July. The Hood Canal Floating Bridge, about 20 miles north, connects the Olympic Peninsula to the Kitsap Peninsula and provides a route toward Seattle without navigating south through Olympia. The Theler Wetlands preserve near Belfair and the Staircase area of Olympic National Park offer additional day-trip options for guests who want to sample the full range of the Hood Canal corridor. The Hood Canal harvest seasons dictate much of the year's activity rhythm—razor clam digs, Dungeness crab season, and the salmon runs each draw devoted participants who fill the surrounding parks and campgrounds in their respective windows. Summer brings the most comfortable weather for outdoor exploration, while fall delivers the salmon runs and a quieter atmosphere for visitors who prefer the canal's pace without summer crowds. Check current shellfish and fishing regulations from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife before planning a harvest trip, as seasonal closures and harvest limits vary by species and location along the canal throughout the year.

from $32/night

Riffe Lake Campground

35 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 13 Tent Sites

Riffe Lake Campground in Mossyrock, Washington, offers 35 RV sites, five cabins, and 13 tent sites on Riffe Lake, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet. Full-hookup and water-and-electric back-in categories join kayak rentals, walking trails, and a general store between two volcanoes. Thirty-five back-in sites run in 30-amp, 30/50-amp, 30-amp water-and-electric, and 50-amp water-and-electric categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Group sites and rustic sites supplement the main inventory. Five cabins and 13 tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. The lake carries the recreation. Kayak rentals are available on site, with swimming, fishing, canoeing, and kayaking from the shoreline. Walking trails, hiking, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, and a playground fill the grounds. The position is genuinely rare. This privately owned Lewis County property sits within striking distance of both Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens — a double-header of volcanic landmarks that is nearly impossible to match anywhere else in the continental United States. Guests can day-trip to one, then the other, from a single base on a scenic reservoir. Summer is decisively the season in the Cascades, when both mountain roads are reliably open and the lake is warm. Reserve well ahead for July and August, and check road status at both parks when planning shoulder-season stays.

from $35/night

Toutle River RV Resort

212 RV Sites, 21 Tent Sites

Toutle River RV Resort in Castle Rock, Washington, offers 212 full-hookup RV sites and 21 tent sites on the Toutle River, with 30 and 50-amp service in back-in, pull-in, and pull-through categories. A pool, hot tub, recreation center, and private river access sit 10 minutes from Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Two hundred twelve sites run in RV back-in, RV pull-in, and RV pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp. Three straightforward categories keep booking simple. Twenty-one tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor the property, with a recreation center, clubhouse, pavilion, sports courts, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, walking trails, a playground, dog park, and snack bar filling the grounds. Scenic trails run from the park down to the riverbank for fishing, wildlife viewing, or a quiet walk. Pets are welcome. The river position is the property's real asset. The lower Toutle canyon gives private access to the confluence with the Cowlitz, widely regarded as one of the premier fishing holes in Washington State, while the upper drainage leads directly to Mount St. Helens — the visitor center and the blast zone are 10 minutes from the entrance, which is as close as any full-service resort gets to the most consequential volcanic event in modern American history. Summer is peak in southwest Washington, with the steelhead and salmon runs drawing anglers in the shoulders. Reserve well ahead for July and August.

from $57/night