Paradise RV Campground

We made reservations at the last minute.,We are on a trial of the thousand trails program.. if I was paying for this program I would be pissed.

We spent a number of minutes testing pads that were marked with power but were inop, frustrating. Additional there is a water issue that asks you to boil water. The pads are grass and gravel that are not level . Your neighbor's are close so it has limited privacy. We got lucky and found a site under some trees. Sewer sites limited and dump stations were available but in poor places.

Update: we had our blackstone grill stolen under an hour. We went to the store and when we got back, gone gone gone

We are staying here over the weekend and seeing so many families all over. Seems like a great family location. Even with all the people around still seems quite in our spot. Not many stores around which is ok just make sure you bring your groceries with you before coming just a FYI.

Water must be limited here for now so no laundry just a heads up.

We have Verizon service which has been great and we are staying at the bottom of the hill.

Paradise RV Campground – Silver Creek, WA
We stayed in this park for 2 weeks in late June/early July 2019 as a base to visit Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier NP. This Thousand Trails campground is much like other Thousand Trails in that the sites were small and close together. We were in site 99. It was paved but quite unlevel, very short and narrow but pull through with just enough room to park our small tow car. It was FHU but only 30 amp, no Wifi or cable, Verizon was 4G 3-4 bars. We had a picnic table but not enough flat space to make it usable. The campground is hilly and sites are tiered. There isn’t too much shopping nearby. We did not use the bathrooms. The laundry had 4 washers and 4 dryers but 2 of each were out of order. The cost for each was $2.25. They have a code to get in afterhours but when we went to use it the code did not work. They had changed it on the 1st of the month but failed to tell us.

This was a very nice Thousand Trails. We stay two nights from September 13th through September 16, 2019, in campsite 187, the stay was free due to our Thousand Trails membership. Our site had electricity and water hook up.

The site was level and backed up to a creek that was down below the site. The stay site was quiet, no one camping on our driver side did have a neighbor on the passenger side. The campground is at an elevation of 125 ft. Access to the campground was right off hwy 12, our 28 ft travel trailer easily fit with room to spare in our site. Once we entering the campground, the pavement turns to hard-packed gravel as we circled around a couple of times to find our campsite.

The weather was high overcast in the mid 60's, the nights low 50s. It did rain hard on Sunday morning from 2am to 10am. This is a very quiet campground, activities we found at the campground to keep busy was shuffleboard which we enjoyed for the first time. The Billards table was in really good shape too. A musician name Dr A played music Saturday night in the lodge. The campground has clean free showers, plenty of hot water and not more than a 5 minute walk from our campsite. Since we arrived on a Friday school day, the campgrounds were not full, there was no waiting for showers.

My wife and I enjoyed the campground, we will be back the next time we want to hike at Mt. St. Helens.

As Thousand Trails members we booked a stay here for Labor Day Week. We arrived on Sunday. There was NO site that our 41 ft fifth wheel could get in. The sites that were available also were extremely unlevel. There were big dips in the middle of the sites we saw. There was one motor home with its front 2 tires completely off the ground due to the leveling blocks/jacks. The road through the park is also narrow and not well maintained. I understand it was a busy weekend but with reservations that include your rig size, we felt that was unacceptable.

7/18/19 - 8/15/2019
Had a great month here. Nice staff. Say hi to Bud and Colleen. Bud is the maintenance staff here and he and his wife Colleen threw a little get together in the picnic area. Met really nice couples during our dinner. We recieved excellent cell service while here. We arrived in our 45ft Class A and tow vehicle, both fit at the site. Some spots were tight getting in here, especially if campers were parked in back of us. We were on the front row and hubby is pretty good at parking our home. It seems that many leave on Sunday and arrive Thursday and Friday. The weekends are always real busy here during the Summer as we see. The showers down by the pool area are half stalls so head views are seen and there are no doors for private closure but they have curtains. I used the other shower room up top which had doors and curtains for privacy and much bigger and cleaner. There are only two shower rooms here, so ask ranger which one is not near the pool area. They have a pretty good grocery store which seems to have the necessary things one may need for camping. There is a larger store not far from the campground as well if you can't find what you need here. There's a China Wall Restaurant just down the hill from the access road here. Also, I would recommend filling up your water tank and dumping prior to getting here. Right now it's 11:56 am on a Sunday and there is a long line for people who are dumping and leaving the campground. We are parked at a full hookup site with 30amp site 119. They do have picnic tables and fire rings at most sites that I have seen. Take a drive to Mt.Rainier you won't regret it.

Had full hookups, including 50 amp. Verizon cell service was great. Views from the ridge going to and from the camp are spectacular. Close enough to Chehalis to go to Walmart or other shopping and dinning. Rt 12 to Yakima was probably the most scenic road we've been on in the Northwest, worth the drive....but not necessarily pulling a big rig or driving your RV. Campground is sloping, so one site is terraced slightly above the next. Gravel roads are something to consider if you are pulling a lot of weight, but there are, at least, a couple of ways to get out and circling around the pool, in front of the store is less of an incline and no problem at all....just consider your route. It rained while we were there, but never experienced much mud. No regular TV service but we saw lots of TV satellite dishes so they must work there. Didn't notice a plethora of long term resident's rigs there, which was nice, they tend to take the best spots and collect a lot of junk when there are very many of them. I thank the resort staff for keeping that sort of mess to a minimum. We would definitely stay here again.

Out of the 14 nights we stayed we had water three of them. The other days the water had run out or there was a boil notice. Also, we didn’t get a call or email warning us, we just showed up for our reservation and were told that there is no water. We ended up driving into town to grab a ton of gallons. Also, the laundry room and pool were closed (because of inadequate water supply). Fantastic.the roads are dirt and a little bumpy and the sites, at least in our area, aren’t totally level. Aside from that, it’s a pretty pleasant place. There’s a nice little lake that made for a great dog walk loop, lots of tall trees, and peace and quiet during the non-weekend days.

Cell service was fantastic on both ATT and Verizon- hovering around 30mbps download and 5mbps upload without the cell booster for both carriers. (We never set up/plugged in the booster since our speed tests were so good).

Not much to do in Silver Creek, but there is a post office that will accept general delivery packages. Groceries and a laundromat are about 30 minuets away. Mount Rainier is a little over an hour. We’d come back mainly because it’s free and there’s great cell service, but we’d definitely bring water!