Thousand Trails

We stayed New Years Eve Thru January 2^nd. This campground has a great staff, wonderful party planner, awesome facilities and the location is perfect! The full hook up sites are level and private. The puget sound is beautiful! I loved it!

So, this place is not perfect, but it is pretty darn good for a family with young kids. That said, if it is a busy time of year you could get stuck with a tiny and very unlevel spot with a strange fire grate instead of a ring… Fortunately for us, we went in the off season and it was great! We got a good spot, the staff were friendly, and we only got a two minute soft sell about joining TT. We will probably be back once a year, but not really interested in the other TT properties since they look more like parking lots. Yay camping! :)

WE had a great vacation. Family camping at its best. My kids love the beach (finding sand crabs, hermit crabs, star fish.) I think they could have spent the entire day just playing on the beach. We did spent a lot of low tide there. Swing sets, Mini golf, pickle ball they had it all. La Conner is a short drive to a nice town. Deception Pass is a 20 min drive and is a neat excursion. 4 stars because the hot tub hours at 12:00 — 6:00 for kids. They should be until 8:00PM for kids and then the last hour be for adults only. Also the Mini Gold needs to be updated/​fixed up. The best sunsets are from a beach.

We joined TT this year and have made it a point to check out all in our zones, from CA to WA.
Many have been a bit of a disappointment but the La Conner TT was the best surprise yet!
We didn’t have reservations but discovered it was close by and we decided to veer off the highway to see what La Conner was like. One of my main objections to any RV park is being in a parking lot campsite with no privacy or scenery. Not here!!! We found a beautiful, private, large, level treed site that was a short walk from the exquisite open beach area. We enjoyed a gorgeous sunset walk on the beach with the dogs and check out the facilities.
My only regret is that we couldn’t stay longer. So far La Conner is the only TT that I could stay for a week or more.

We had received a free one year membership to thousand trails after buying our first travel trailer. We were excited to book our first trip and since La Conner is close to home we booked this campground. When we got there, we were told that we could drive around to find a spot we liked (even though we made reservations, they couldn’t tell us which sites were occupied and which were open) and was given a map which was very confusing and hard to read. We started around the large loop and quickly realized how cramped this campground was. Driving through was tight and narrow and we only found one open spot. This spot was IMPOSSIBLE to even try and back into with our trailer and we had no clue as to how our truck would fit. By this time we were so fed up with this place we decided to go home. We will never be back. Highly recommend going elsewhere unless you go during a slow season.

Only stayed here a few days. Didn’t like the fact that there is very few 50amp sites. It’s very hilly and lots of large trees so not easy to park in sites. No tv reception. The roads in and out are muddy with lots of holes. Won’t visit again.

We’ve been to 5 different thousand trails sites now and this one is our favorite. The people are friendly and seem to genuinely want to help. I liked the Saturday breakfast. I haven’t seen that anywhere else.
The two things I’d change would be to add a pool since all the other ones I’ve been to have one, and the facilities could use a little updating. The adult lodge is tiny and only has a tv and pool table. I don’t know how both could be enjoyed at the same time. The family lodge is nice but nobody seemed to be able to get the wifi to work. The park is very dark. More lighting would be beneficial.
All in all this was a great trip and we definitely plan to return.

We are not TT members, but like to take the grandkids to nearby spots for camping, bike riding, beach play and general outdoor fun. We’ve been to this campground a few times because of the beauty of the beaches. Actually, the views are the only reason we have been back. Most everything else about this campground leaves us wishing the same beautiful beaches could be found in a place with less mud, clean playgrounds, clean restrooms, fewer rotting year-​round RV’s and less transients (we have not felt safe letting the children ride bikes or go to the playground unless we are with them at all times). We won’t be joining TT anytime in the near future if this is the only nearby place to hang out.

We received a free membership to Thousand Trails. We took our first trip to this place. It was really muddy, they need to lay down some gravel or do something. Size of the sites were tiny. I don’t mean to be looking down my nose at anyone and please I am glad people in hard times can find a places to live but there were moldy old RV’s everywhere with tons of crap piled up around them. We drove in and out and payed for another place to stay.

We’ve stayed multiple times at this TT location. It is about average when compared to other preserves we’ve been to. It is showing its age though.
One of the biggest problems I see in general with TT preserves is the size of their sites. When we had a large pop up, finding an appropriately sized site wasn’t a big deal, but now, with our 5er, (34 ½’) and the truck to tow it, size is much more of an issue.
Another problem is power. Back when they built these parks most RVs were either 20A or some of the larger units had 30A. Nowadays MANY units need 50A to support all the modern conveniences, such as 50″ flat screen TVs,
W/​D, dual ACs, fireplaces, 12 gallon hot water heaters, etc. You can run SOME of those on just 30A, but not all of them and certainly not all at the same time.
The best part about this preserve is the quiet solitude. Outside of the summer season this is the big draw for the park. That and it’s close proximity to La Conner and Anacortes. In the summer it is a popular destination and sites are at a premium. It will be busy. We usually stay here on Memorial Day weekend, so I know this for fact.
All in all we like this park, find the staff to be helpful and friendly for the most part even though they are usually understaffed and overworked. This, more than anything is the biggest change I’ve seen at TT over the past four decades; the drive to make a profit by ELS has cut staff to a bare minimum, sometimes less than a workable minimum. I can only suppose that’s because they budget so little for staff that wages are horrifically low. They truly get what they pay for. That and the day to day maintanance is put off until it can’t be ignored and must be fixed. The old saying, «penny wise and pound foolish» definitely applies to TT in this case. At the park level though they appear to be doing the best they can with the dollars they’re provided.

My husband and I came here for our 1 year wedding anniversary. We have a hard time finding places that we can go because so many places are judgemental on breed of dog, we have a pit bull so we aren’t always welcomed. Well here it was different. They didn’t ask why breed of dog we had when we reserved, and when we arrived we got a very warm welcome from the lady in the welcome center and we had a brief conversation about pitbulls and how sweet they are. So any place without breed restrictions is already great in my book.
We got to pick whatever campsite we wanted, and we were lucky enough to get one right off the beach, so we had a gorgeous view. The beach is beautiful. We were only here 2 nights, so we didn’t get to take advantage of most of the amenities offered at this park, but we did use the hot tub which was decent and nice and hot. We got to peek inside the little cabins which would be nice to stay in. The people that we came across working there were very friendly.
Wish it were in walking distance to town, but that wouldn’t deter me from staying here again!

We are full timers and this was our first experience at a Thousand Trails campground. The area is beautiful but our campsite was trashed. Response from front office was, «we’re short on staff. Nothing we can do about it.» We made our reservation on line, specifying we wanted a full hookup site for our 41′ camper. When we arrived, we were told to pick a campsite but only in one area where our camper would fit. No sewer hookup. Again, we questioned the front office. We were told, the reservation system is not «ours» so the La Conner campground can’t guarantee what we booked on line. They offer a honey bucket truck for $ 25. Or, we can pull our camper out and dump. Outrageous. We are not picky campers. We dry camp a fair amount. We don’t need a fancy campground with a level, concrete pad with the hookup we reserved. We are not Thousand Trails members and, if this is how they treat non-​members, I can promise we never will be!

Not a lot to write about here, it was a good place to stay, very quiet and secluded. The price seemed reasonable and the facilities were adequate. If you are looking for a place to stay in the area this would be recommended!

I have been going here with my parents since I was very little, and it has a special place in my heart. I love walking around the campground and visiting the beach and lone tree. It seems that the activities for kids and cleanliness have definitely gotten worse through the years, but we still love to go here especially for Halloween weekend. Trick or treating is a blast!!!

I have not been to a thousand trails until this one.
Camping before this location for me was much less accessorized.
They had ping pong tables, tye dye making, an old man DJ for the community in the club house. horseshoe, volleyball.
The coolest thing was that they had a great location out on the water. I mean it just beautiful here. Sure rains a ton though! Never been so rained out in a campsite so this place definitely gets MUDDY! The sites get super wet depending on which one you get. The hot tub wasn’t working so that’s a huge bummer.
It’s nice to have the breakfast in the am if you are rained out, but we are troupers and still made breakfast for 20 people in 4 inches of rain in or site.

We are regular visitors of thousand trails this one is by far the worse one we have been to, bathroom’s were discusting, no soap, no toilet liners! And frequently out of toilet paper!!! And having to pay for mini golf really! And way to many bugs

My idea of a family vacation includes a sandy beach, a margarita drink. I mean. Wait. An RV trip? Okay, I can deal with that.
I planned this for my BF and his kids & I. Only the best for them! An RV resort? Really? With mini golf and tennis courts and and and a LODGE that has free wifi (albeit spotty, and yes I know I shouldn’t be worried about wifi when I’m out in the wood ;)
I brought my bike for something extra to do as there is a trail that wraps around to ride your bike on. It was a bit soggy, but we had fun. Luckily, we were close enough to town that we didn’t need to cook in the RV all the time either. We even built a fire and had roasted marshmallows.
I can only stand ‘camping’ once a year, and if I had to do it again I’d do it here.

We just spent a soggy, muddy two nights here and we think it is pretty darn good.
This RV park is only a couple of miles from both La Conner and Anacortes and it is hard to a imagine a more bucolic and idyllic part of the world. The RV park is bordered on two sides by rocky beaches on picturesque Skagit Bay.
Thousand Trails has nice amenities including a large common area long-​house right on the beach. The free wi-​fi was slow but you should not be concerned with internet speeds when you are enjoying a simple life like this. My girls enjoyed the mini-​golf and they had very nice basketball courts, a good paddle tennis court and a few horseshoe pits.
Although it poured rain, the roads were in good condition. Our only beef was that it was difficult to find a site that had a large enough flat spot for our 30 ft class c. We were flat enough to be comfortable but, it would be nicer if there were more large flat sites.
My daughter commented, «it was a great trip, I heard an owl at night, saw a woodpecker, played mini-​golf and had a campfire, even if it was raining»; simple pleasures that make family life a true joy.