Vasa Park Resort

Vasa Park Resort is a privately owned park on Lake Sammamish. Most of the park is set up for lake goers, swimming, picnics, parties, music, and public gatherings. The RV section is relatively small with only 15 sties. Finding a quiet, clean RV park anywhere within a metro area is not easy. This isn't a luxury full service RV resort, but it's great for what it is and it's really hard to find anything to complain about. Although there's not much privacy, the sites are adequately sized and spaced. Most sites should accommodate any size rig. The staff were friendly and accommodating. The grounds were very clean and well maintained. Some of the RV power and water hookups were in questionable condition. Our 20 amp outlet was broken but the park staff fixed it very quickly.

The was basically a basecamp for touring the area. But, I would love to spend more time here in the warm months. It was simply felt like I was at someone's lakeside property. Everyone was nice. They offered a twenty amp plug if I didn't have my own. The showers were coin operated, but were in a huge single occupancy room. Access to the city was a mere 20 min. non rush hour, or an hour in morning traffic. The site was grassy and a little unlevel, but it didn't bother me enough to pull out my leveling blocks. It was also quiet.

We chose this campground for it's proximity to Seattle and we were very happy with our choice.
We booked over the phone with one day notice and Elizabeth, who took our reservation, was extremely nice. When we arrived, she gave us advice on how to get into Seattle and where to find parking.
There weren't many people there when we went, but when this place fills up, we can see how it would be a little cramped with regard to the sites being lined up and narrow. The grounds were very well cared for, and the lake was beautiful. We saw several different types of fish just looking through the clear water from the dock. Getting into and out of Seattle took about 20 minutes each way so that was a home run.
In the six months that we've spent full-timing in our trailer, this is the very first place to charge tax, and so $39 seemed a bit high compared to what we've been spending, especially with no sewer hookup, and a pay shower. There is a dump station. Bathrooms appeared very clean at first glance, but no toilet paper in two of the three men's room stalls, and it was also clear that the insides of the toilets have been ignored for some time. Not a deal-breaker, just sayin.

We really enjoyed our stay at Vasa Park and the park managers were super friendly and helpful. We had more than one long conversation about the local area and the park itself. They even gave us specific park and ride directions, along with a detailed map, so we could take public transportation into Seattle and avoid a parking nightmare. Management even cruised through the park in the evenings, after the day visitors departed, to make sure the RVers were doing well.

Don't get me wrong, as far as RV parks go this place is small. However, it isn't an RV park, it is a day use area at a gorgeous lake in the middle of town that just happens to have a few full hookup and water/electric only sites.

We booked our site about a month in advance and were told at booking that they were pretty booked up and the only thing they had was a water/20 AMP electric only site that was long enough for our rig. They have a dump station on site so I was perfectly happy with that and for $32 bucks a night, 12 miles from Seattle, I wasn't about to complain.

Yes, you must pick up after your dog and confine the dog to your site but considering that day use visitors are not allowed to bring their pets I felt it was generous enough that RVers are the exception. Yes, there is a very large field across the street that is off leash for your dog to run in and our Dane Maggie loved it. We also liked the excuse to get a good walk in a couple times a day taking her over there. :)

All in all we really enjoyed our stay at Vasa Park and paddle boarding on the lake was awesome. We will definitely look to stay here the next time we are visiting the Seattle area.

Before we begin: RV’ers BEWARE - these grounds along with their massive amounts of reviews are mainly a testament to the campgrounds party rental and day use facilities - which actually seem nice and pleasant. A 4-5 star review would be appropriate had we NOT been RV’ers. We have been on the road for three weeks and our experience with site hookups and management at Vasa Park was by far the worst on the west coast.

Our issues are as follows:

1. Website and onsite information do not match up. Showers are coin operated, campers must pay extra for more than two guests and family “must leave before 7pm” - all of which was not clearly stated on their website. Only after our payment was processed were we giving a separate set of info describing our issues above.

2. Bathrooms are not “sparkling” per their website. There is major water rot in the showers and toilet seats have large amounts of corrosion.

3. Our biggest problem is Vasa’s electrical system. It’s only 20amps - which is also not stated before purchasing a camping spot- unfortunately that is not the true issue because we have the proper adapters that can run on a 20amp system but for whatever reason we could NOT even run our mini fridge on their electrical without tripping the breaker. Therefor we could not make food and what we had spoiled.

A refund was requested and the owner blew us off.

We decided to stay here for quick access to the city, for that, it worked fine.

We rarely stay at RV parks, and I hate paying for camping, so when I do, I like to get some value for the expense. I did not feel I got that here. The other reviews cover most of the details of the park, so I'll just add a few notes from my "hate rv parks" perspective:

The "tent" sites are very tight, and packed with RVs with slides out, etc. Very little space between rigs, which contributed to lots of noise.

Not dog friendly, the manager demanded we take her out across the highway to walk. This wouldn't be a problem l if there was enough space in the campsite.

The entrance is small and on a blind curve of the highway.

Prior to here we stayed at Tolt MacDonald Park, which was awesome, but we ran into reservation conflicts there. If you don't mind the longer drive into the city, I'd highly recommend Tolt MacDonald as an alternative.