Game Farm Park Campground

Stayed here for a night while visiting family in Tacoma. While it is very small and sites are fairly close together, each site had a picnic table and fire pit. Gate is locked at night for added security but make sure you don’t get locked out. Campground host was very friendly. Good place for launching into the cities. Note there is a train track in the area

Camp for five days during the hot week in Auburn. Temperatures were the high 90s during the day. At night it would cool off to the typical 58° to 60°. They sell firewood bundles for six dollars each. Frisbee golf course with free access right next to campground.
30 amp sites with water hookup. Dump station. Lots of road noise from dead end road the goes by campground, street racing, drug deals etc.

4 nights, June 2017

You're basically staying in a dead grassy field with other campers, with the river a short walk away. There's tons of frisbee nets in the park, so watch yourself when you go for a hike! The white river is as gorgeous as ever, but some of the other campers are not so much. If we had other options we would've stayed elsewhere, but everywhere else was booked up unfortunately that weekend.

Pros
- Close to town & 1 hr from Seattle
- Long sites
- Camphost is very attentive, I always saw him patrol the campground and even the trails!
- Quiet at night

Cons
- Fellow campers are a bit sketchy
- Campground is not aesthetically pleasing as it's just a field of dead grass

We stayed here twice, once for 7 nights and once for 3, about 2 months apart.

Their website says they have a 7 day limit, but in talking to the camp host that is only for the busy season, for the off season he said they allow longer stays though I don't remember how long. I wish I had known that because we enjoyed it there and would have liked to stay for 10 days the first time, but we made plans elsewhere because of the limit.

The RV park shares an entrance with a popular disc golf course that is at the park. During the day it gets busy, but at night the camp host herds all of the day users out and closes the gate (not locked so you can come and go as you please at night still). So while hectic during the day it is really quiet and calm at night.

There were some people there that you could tell where living in their tent there. Not sure how long they had been there but they were leaving the last day. They seemed polite and respectful and the camp host seem to know everyone and have a good handle on things so I definitely didn't get the sketchy feeling the previous poster did.

Being surrounded by the trees it was easy to forget that you were in the middle of a large metropolis. We prefer to avoid big cities, but when we do have to stay in them I hope we can find more places like this.

[Actual stay was 5/10/15]

The park could have been nice. It is right next to a nice river, the sites provide decent room for a campground in the city, you're surrounded by trees and it is well maintained.
But the clientele made us feel unsafe and leave early. There is a camping limit of I think 10 days or something, but it is clearly not enforced (we were there on two occasions two weeks apart and the same people where still there). You got tarp tents, violent fights, dogs running wild and super loud nightly "conversations".

If you don't mind all of that it's a great location close to Seattle airport (45 min in rush hour), Seattle in general (add 30 minutes) or as a starting point to explore the Olympic NP. It's definitely one of your cheapest options.