Metzler Park

We started our 2 week OR and WA camping trip with a couple of nights here. It was only about an hour from Portland but seems worlds away. It's very forested and quiet and our site, 56, was huge!

The layout of the campground is a little confusing and the homemade looking map at the entrance isn't very accurate. It took us a couple of attempts to get oriented the right way to actually drive into our spot. But after that it was great!

Our Peplink was able to get serviceable internet on T-Mobile but nothing on AT&T.

Great park for a 'locals' weekend getaway or a family gathering. Beautiful setting in trees. Well maintained for a county park. There is a range of campsites (some good and some bad) so do your research. Sites 14,15,16 were nice in their own ways. - see photos.
Note: Steep road down to the campground (1,000' in a relatively short distance). Plus the road through the Park where tight with trees and vehicles. We were pulling a 27' Airstream and we felt uncomfortable navigating our way through the campground.
Being the Park is located down in the valley, getting good cell coverage was challenging. Thus it was hard to work remotely (i.e. slow speeds at times) but doable with upgraded equipment.
The setting was beautiful and there are trails around the park with access to the creek and a swimming hole.
The price was $37 for Oregon Res and $46 for non-Oregon Res.
New bathrooms and showers (typical basic govt style) were clean.
Water and power (30 and 50 amp) at the campsite. There was a RV dump station located onsite. - see photo.
We would come back for a short weekend vacation stay.

We stayed here as a last-minute camping trip. It was the last week in May and there was plenty of availability. Our side was #1, which was right next to the Park Ranger station and the toilet block. It wasn't ideal, but there was plenty of privacy on the site itself. There are several other sites that have a lot more privacy and more of a "forest-y" feel... there are also a few sites that look like glorified side-of-the-road camping. It's a mixed bag -- those on Clear Creek are much better than the interior sites.

The campground itself was great! There's a massive open field for soccer, frisbee, softball, etc. There's an interpretive hike around the campground with interesting plants called out and described. There's horseshoes available for rent and a jungle gym. The park rangers are helpful and friendly.

This park is beautiful. We had the best space in the park- site 57. It was HUGE! Our kids loved playing on their new gorgeous yard full of ferns and trees. There’s a playground, ball field, hiking trails, and swimming hole (river). The rangers are all friendly and work hard to keep things looking nice. The camp hosts are a super sweet older couple as well. It was very quiet during the week and more lively for the weekend. A great place overall! Because of the heavy tree cover in site 57 we had weak cell signal (Verizon 2 bars of 3G) but in other sites it was much better.

Stayed July 3rd-7th. I was able to get a site just a couple of weeks prior to the holiday. Friendly camp hosts. Lots to do - swimming hole, hiking, baseball, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes & playground. Clean bathrooms and showers. Sites were pretty private with a picnic table and firepit. They allowed small legal fireworks for 1 hour on July 4th. I was a little annoyed because I had specifically asked if fireworks were allowed and the entire reason for going was to get away from that but they were all small and quiet so it ended up being ok. We were able to hear fireworks in the distance.