San Benito Thousand Trails
RV Park
Write a Review 16225 Cienega Rd. Paicines, CA 95043 831-389-4477 Reservations: 877-362-6736 Official WebsiteGPS: 36.6865, -121.2989
Overview of San Benito Thousand Trails
Last Price Paid: $0
Reported by Asgoodasitgets4reel on 6/11/2023
Longest RV Reported: 43 feet (Fifth Wheel)
Reported by JW on 12/30/2019
Number of Sites 596
Reservations yes
Elevation 853 ft / 259 m
Max Length 50 ft
Tent Camping Yes
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Reviews of San Benito Thousand Trails 26 people have reviewed this location.
“Excellent Campground!”
Reviewed 11/1/2018
Nightly rate: | FREE! |
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Days stayed: | 21 |
Site Number: | 497 |
In our opinion, this is by far the best Thousand Trails campground between Seattle and the Santa Cruz/Hollister area. It's huge with great space between sites, tons of wildlife, a good camp store, two pools, a good-sized lodge, a cafe, and friendly staff. Pinnacles National Park is 30-60 minutes away (depending on where you want to exp... more
In our opinion, this is by far the best Thousand Trails campground between Seattle and the Santa Cruz/Hollister area. It's huge with great space between sites, tons of wildlife, a good camp store, two pools, a good-sized lodge, a cafe, and friendly staff. Pinnacles National Park is 30-60 minutes away (depending on where you want to explore.) Our Verizon phones had semi-decent 4G, but phone calls did get a little garbled sometimes. Our AT&T didn't work at all and our Verizon Internet worked only barely, even with our WeBoost; so we had to pay for the Tengo access. It was only $25 for the 21 days and was decent though not awesome. It was good enough that hubby could work and I could do my online class (no video.) Streaming videos only worked when we reduced the resolution fairly low. Hollister is about 20-30 minutes away and Gilroy (with all the big box stores) is about 45 minutes away. Oh...make note. Amazon won't deliver there and will send anything you try to ship there to the local Paicines Post Office, so you might as well just have it all sent directly to the Paicines Post Office. USPS will deliver your USPS mail to the campground, as will UPS and FedEx; so all those types of delivery will get there - just not Amazon (who apparently uses their own delivery people now at least in this area.) We honestly wished we could have stayed here longer. It's very relaxing and beautiful!
WanderingGants would stay here again
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“Spacious park, good sites, no cell phones, nice activities”
Reviewed 7/30/2018
Nightly rate: | FREE! |
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Days stayed: | 3 |
This park is pretty far off the path of anything, but nice to get away from things. Primary reason of not giving 5 star is location, but if you are looking to get away, pretty nice place. Getting there is about 30 minutes away from closest town so just be prepared if you are needing to go into town for something. Getting into the... more
This park is pretty far off the path of anything, but nice to get away from things. Primary reason of not giving 5 star is location, but if you are looking to get away, pretty nice place.
Getting there is about 30 minutes away from closest town so just be prepared if you are needing to go into town for something.
Getting into the park too is about 4 miles off the main road and even once you enter the park, it feels like another mile of windy roads. Downhill on the way in, so on the way out you get to chug up a hill immediately.
Once in the park, the first come first serve system is annoying because of the large amount of space, but we got a 50AMP spot by a bathroom (wifi antenna) with FHU.
Lots of stuff was a bit aged, but people working there were great. Pool was refreshing but no hot tub in family pool area (need to go to adults area if you want).
Landscaping was spotty but probably based on lack of water in the area.
Wifi was paid and worked great.
42 On The Road would stay here again
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“Nice place”
Reviewed 7/21/2018
Days stayed: | 7 |
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More of a traditional RV park than a camping park like some of TT's parks. The store is awesome - they have beer, wine, cigarettes, groceries, RV supplies, and more. Lots of deer hanging around the sites, we've also seen a fox, a skunk, wild pigs, and an owl. They have paid wifi that is 7mbps symmetrical, which is... ok. It would st... more
More of a traditional RV park than a camping park like some of TT's parks. The store is awesome - they have beer, wine, cigarettes, groceries, RV supplies, and more. Lots of deer hanging around the sites, we've also seen a fox, a skunk, wild pigs, and an owl.
They have paid wifi that is 7mbps symmetrical, which is... ok. It would stream some stuff with stutter/buffering but all-in-all if I had to work on it I probably could. T-Mobile is usable with a cell booster (but only with a cell booster), Verizon works well also. I haven't had any luck with AT&T.
Lots of long term RVers here, but also plenty of sites - many with full hookups which is nice. Tons of 50amp spots with 30amp connections if needed.
We'd visit again! About an hour and a half away from Monterey if anyone is trying to visit that place specifically.
nopadet would stay here again
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“Nice Thousand Trails”
Reviewed 6/10/2017
Nightly rate: | FREE! |
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Days stayed: | 14 |
It seems to be hit or miss with Thousand Trails properties; you never know what it will be like. A lot of the experience depends on the site you get. Towing our 41 ft. house around a property we are not familiar with while trying to find a suitable site can be stressful. We were thankful for the employee that gave us some suggestions a... more
It seems to be hit or miss with Thousand Trails properties; you never know what it will be like. A lot of the experience depends on the site you get. Towing our 41 ft. house around a property we are not familiar with while trying to find a suitable site can be stressful. We were thankful for the employee that gave us some suggestions and ended up recommending just the right site for us. This is a large resort and there are many sites to choose from, but most are out in the open with no shade and very close to neighbors. We prefer a site with some shade and a decent amount of separation from our neighbor so we don't feel crowded. That can be hard to find, but thankfully we found a site like that here. The site we had was a 30 amp full hookup. With the shade we got along just fine with only 30 amp. They charge $5 extra per night for 50 amp. Verizon 4G worked well, but AT&T does not work at all. There was a section way in the back of the park that Verizon didn't work at all. This park is out in the middle of nowhere; there is not much to do in the area, but it's a nice place to relax if that's what you're looking for. The town of Hollister is only about 20-30 minutes away. Since I travel fulltime it can be hard to find a place to get my hair cut and colored on the road. I went to Attitudes and Images Salon in Hollister and saw Sandra who did a great job on my hair. We also visited Pinnacles National Park which was only about 30 minutes away. The park will allow you to receive UPS and FedEx packages there; USPS does not deliver to the park. The employees were nice and friendly; we enjoyed our stay and would come back to this TT park if we're in the area again.
ketah777 would stay here again
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“A Place I Wanted To Dislike, But Couldn't”
Reviewed 4/7/2017
Nightly rate: | FREE! |
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Days stayed: | 5 |
RV Length: | 35' |
So I had just had a bad experience at another Thousand Trails park (Thousand Trails Russian River - you can read my review on that) and we headed south to this park. Due to the bad experience at the other TT property I was ready to be angry at this one. On check in they said they would drive us around and help us pick a spot. I ... more
So I had just had a bad experience at another Thousand Trails park (Thousand Trails Russian River - you can read my review on that) and we headed south to this park.
Due to the bad experience at the other TT property I was ready to be angry at this one. On check in they said they would drive us around and help us pick a spot. I declined the offer (Don't tell Deseray I shared this but she can get picky at times and it can take awhile to decide so I preferred to go at our own pace). They told me then to not use any space that had a colored tag on the power box as that meant it was having power problems. What they didn't say was that this was almost half the sites in the park.
It really started to irritate me as we drove around and almost every space we liked (in a park of over 600 spaces) that they had the tag on them. Finally we found a great spot with no tag and as I was getting ready to back in the neighbor came out and told me that site didn't work and that the tag had just come off.
Oh and in the office they told us if we picked certain spots that we would have to come back to the office and pay an extra $3 a night because it was an "upgraded site". These sites looked no nicer then the others, some were very small in fact. Apparently "upgraded" means "we recently fixed a bad power pedestal and are trying to re-coupe costs".
By the time we picked a space (which turned out to be very nice) I was really ready to share some choice words with TT.
However as we settled in we ended up LOVING the place over the next 5 nights. The broke sites (most of which had overgrown grass) made it so that we were always 2 - 3 sites or further away from other campers and we were in a site that was already pretty large. So it felt very private. At night it was so quiet and it was awesome to watch the stars and listen to the owls. We even pulled out our gas fire pit and sat around the fire almost every night. Tons of birds around during the day.
We had good Verizon, good enough to work and stream. As we left I reflected back on it and realized that as frustrated as I am at TT for their poor upkeep on their parks, and as frustrating as it was to find a place due to it, we ended up thoroughly enjoying our stay.
Good Verizon, no AT&T.
[Actual stay was 02/28/16]
CootersOnTheGo would stay here again
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“First time in our new RV”
Reviewed 3/30/2016
Nightly rate: | $48 |
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Days stayed: | 1 |
Site Number: | 91 |
From check in to our neighbors, everything was really nice. There has been a lot of rain this past winter so the grasses and weeds are growing and need to be mowed but other than that, this place was nice and quiet - no cell reception but you can get wifi it you need at the clubhouse. There are full timers, cabin rentals, tent campin... more
From check in to our neighbors, everything was really nice. There has been a lot of rain this past winter so the grasses and weeds are growing and need to be mowed but other than that, this place was nice and quiet - no cell reception but you can get wifi it you need at the clubhouse. There are full timers, cabin rentals, tent camping and RV hookups available. There are quite a few spots where the electrical isn't working but when we checked in they were pretty clear on that. The lady also went out with us to find a spot with working hook ups. The campground is very large so there are several bathrooms spread out. The one closest to us didn't have hot water but there was a sign indicating that and another bathroom wasn't too far away. It was definitely a good location to get our feet wet with a new Roadtrek. Tent camping area was a bit more 'active' and loud but where we were there were clearly some full timers and/or monthly visitors who were quiet. It's also a nice campground to take a walk and watch the birds!
Darwindog96 would stay here again
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Amenities
Hookups
- 50 Amp
- 30 Amp
- 20 Amp
- water
- sewer
- Full Hookups
Connectivity
- wifi: yes
Recreation
- basketball court
- hot tub
- mini golf
- playground
- rec hall
- recreation trail
- swimming pool: outdoor
- volleyball
Site Amenities
- picnic table
- pull thru
Facilities
- dump station
- general store
- hot tub
- laundry
- restrooms: flush
- rv storage
- showers
- swimming pool: outdoor
- trash
- water available
Discount Clubs
- Thousand Trails
Pets
- pets
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