Trevor Volz

Review of Timberline Campground

I was between 3 and 4 stars but three families put...

I was between 3 and 4 stars but three families put it to a vote and definitely leaned towards a 3. It was more of party venue for the local crowd I think. We travel all over to the family friendly campgrounds because we have several children in our families and the activity they can provide for the kids is important to us. We like to sit around the fire and have a couple drinks, but this place was just not up to par for a family friendly campgrounds. Quiet hours definitely not enforced...neghbors partied very loud until 4:30 a.m....my mother on law seriously wanted to walk our 5 kids over to their campground in the middle of the night to show these rude people who they were keeping up...had we had our youngest 3 kids with us, I would have been pretty upset myself, never the less....do not depend on quiet. Lots of teenage kids running around being rude, using foul language, I did not like my kids hearing what can out of their mouth but I guess there is not a whole lot to do about it. Pool....not clean...mildew all over the chairs...didn't even want to put my towels on them... that's pretty lazy and not acceptable in my book...not hard to clean tables and chairs at the pool. And again we went for a dip Saturday night after dinner and there were 30 teenage kids in the pool, I was the only adult at the pool. Went for firewood Friday night at 8:00...store was closed...no firewood available...meant no fire for us...partly bad planning on our part but why would the main office be closed at 8:00 on a Friday night? Father's day weekend...all the crafting is scheduled on Sunday at or after checkout time. Wait what? Explanation was if no one is waiting to use your spot we won't ask you to leave? Those kind of activities are why we go to these family friendly places...made zero sense to me or anyone else. Bounce pad was broke and that's the single favorite things for my kids to do. Our campground hadn't been mowed. Convenient store offered very little and had so much empty space in it. After writing this now I see why we landed on a 3...maybe should be a 2.
Will say staff was nice, bathrooms we're run down but we're cleaned daily. I don't know what else to say...we made the best of it like we always do and I don't normally complain but I wanted to give an honest review. Sorry I couldn't have been nicer. Had I brought my buddies or no children, I wouldn't have had as much negative to say...but that's not what we paid for.