Lake Sylvia State Park

It’s true that you have to drive through town and a residential neighborhood to get to this campground, but it is worth it! The Ranger was so nice and helpful and suggested sites that I might like. I picked site seven because it was on the lake. The lake is not the most beautiful that I’ve ever seen but there are geese and ducks on it. I also heard frogs croaking and an owl hooting at night. The park is surrounded by beautiful trees and it has a very secluded feeling and honestly feels like you’re deep in a forest not close to a town. There is a lovely little trail that goes all the way around the lake and is very easy to walk around. It is 1.5 miles the entire trip around. The bathrooms were old but clean. I did not take a shower. You do need to get tokens at the ranger station in front for the shower. I am a solo female traveler and felt very safe here. Cell service was excellent!

The wonderful ranger Nick held a spot for us but when we arrived, we decided to check out the bathrooms and showers before nestling in. We were disappointed to find them to be quite dirty and so we moved on to Ocean Shores State Park, just a little bit further on down the road. The other thing we did not like about this park is that you have to go through the town and through a residential neighborhood to get to it; it did not feel like a real getaway

This is one of our favorite places we have ever stayed. About half of the sites are right on the lake, with lots of great shade trees.

The site was plenty big enough for us to park the 5th wheel and for my brother and friend to set up a tent with tons of room left over, heck you could put 6 tents on that site :)

While site 23 is rated as "XL Trailer/Motorhome 32ft +" it is right on a turn. It was pretty tricky to get our 35 ft fifth wheel in there and just as tricky to get it out. I am sure some people were unhappy with me as we blocked the road for about 5 minutes while getting ourselves in and out. The pad is 38ft, so even though we rolled the tires back as far as we could there really wasn't room for the truck to park and I had to park it in the overflow parking about 1/4 mile away.

I thought WA's out of state fishing licenses were priced ridiculously so we didn't do any fishing, though I can't think of a better place to cast a line.

This spot was a dry spot, as most were. Since we were there for only two days and the weather was fantastic we stayed outside most of the time and thus didn't even need to run the generator even though the solar didn't get us a full charge. Had we stayed longer I would have had to run the generator for an hour or two to top off batteries.

Verizon was very useable if boosted, AT&T wasn't good at all.

[Actual stay was 6/9/15]

Late April 2016. Be prepared to dry camp here. There are only 4 partial hookups and according to the nice ranger, they are always booked. We were here for a quick place to park the trailer and overnight. We were doing a day trip to the Olympic Peninsula and didn't want to take the trailer. Small campground in the trees on a small lake. Some sites lakeside. One bath/shower which required tokens. Get the tokens before you depart the ranger hut, they aren't available at the bath house. Seemed to be a popular local fishing spot. Very close to town.