Bruceport County Park

The Bruceport County Park is an oddity. If you're tenting or dry camping, then wow. The sites are simply beautiful, many of them with stunning views from the top of the bluffs overlooking Willapa Bay. There's plenty of grassy fields, trees, and more, offering nearly every site plenty of privacy.

If however you're in a RV rig, and looking for a full hookup, they decided to place all 7 hookup spots right next to each other on a gravel island. You and your neighbors will be crammed like sardines, with no room for table, fire pits, nothing. Also, the facilities are in dire need of some TLC.

Really too bad, since the campground itself has truly tremendous potential, but clearly lacks any incentive to up its game. If the county ever sells this park to a driven and creative entrepreneur, then this could become one of the best parks out there.

This is a county park and on the surface, it doesn't have much to recommend it. But there was a nice surprise!

The few sites with hookups are side by side on a gravel patch out in the open. The standard campsites are a hodgepodge of spots for tents, RVers and bikers. Finding a spot (without hookups) that was big and level enough for my RV was a challenge.

However, if you get a site with a view (like A-11 or A-12 and a few others) it makes up for the shortcomings. The park is on a bluff overlooking Willapa Bay and you can see far enough out to watch ships sailing up the Pacific to Puget Sound.

There is a half mile trail down to the "beach" - more of a rocky patch, actually - but it was a nice way too get the dog some exercise.