Little Diamond RV Campground

This campground is a combination park shared by Thousand Trails and KOA. There are no additional to to camp here with a thousand trails membership or camping pass. Not sure if the KOA rates.

Campground is split on two sides of the main road to the park. There is a guard shack for check in prior to occupying a site. Those staying in the KOA sites are escorted to their site by a golf cart. Those staying in the Thousand Trails sites pick their own sites upon arrival. The roads and sites are gravel/rock. Lots of mature trees throughout the park. There are some pull through sites. The other sites are either back in or pull in. The electric and water hookups are at the front of many of the sites.

Campground has a pool, restrooms, showers , laundry room (currently closed), dog area, playground, dump stations, disc golf, and a lake. Restrooms and showers were a little dated, but clean.

Sites are mostly in the tress. Some have more privacy than others. Site 57 was pretty level. Some did not look level at all. Chose to pull into the site so the electric & water hookups would be at the correct spot. If a trailer or 5th wheel backed in here they would need long cords/hoses. On the KOA side of the campground they did offer a variety of sites (concrete patios, fire rings, picnic table, benches etc.)

At site 58 had 1-2 bars Verizon LTE. Sometimes useable, sometimes not. Did see a fair number of campers using starlink. Had very good Verizon signal and able to stream videos near the open field with disc golf.

Upside: KOA Staff was friendly, facilities and site looked clean, full hookup, family friendly, bonus prairie dog town in the middle of a ball field. Downside: Friendly staff happy to check us in without letting us know everything was closed. After a detour to have a flat tire replaced, we’d been looking forward to doing laundry, getting into the pool and hot tub, and a good night’s sleep. All of these facilities were unavailable and site wasn’t level, so good night’s sleep is questionable too. Backup Plan: Spend a lovely summer evening streaming TV in a hot rv or play games in a game room, or jump into a fishing lake with goose poop. Ugh. Two stars because everything seemed clean and safe and we just love prairie dogs, but we won’t be back.

We stayed for three weeks here to take care of business in the Newport area. Lovely old growth trees, lots of different sizes of sites. Most of the amenities are on the KOA side. We don’t have a toad, so getting to the laundry, pool, lodge, store or dump station requires an outing with the RV. None of the sites have sewer, and several sites require inconvenient positions to get electricity. The restroom nearest us was older, shower stalls don’t allow much privacy, and the floors were filthy. Staff was helpful at check-in - warning to members, have your membership card available! But rangers not evident throughout the park - allowing for a lot of “rule-bending “. Many of the sites need attention. Our fire pit was loaded with trash and cigarette butts - it was too warm for campfires, so it’s a mess left for the next campers. We found a nice site on Boundary road, but it didn’t lend itself to interactions with fellow campers.

The campground is in a old growth forest. The trees are beautiful. The campground has two sides, thousand trials and koa. The thousand trails side is old and in need and extreme updating and maintenance. The roads are barely passable in spots. It appeared that some sites have not been maintained and looks looks like they have not been used or serviced in years. Most spots are not level and took some doing to our rig level. We arrived just after it rained and most of the campground was mud. On our third day the water main broke and it shut off the water to all thousand trails members for 4 days. Each day they turned off the electric so they can work on the plumbing.

The entire campground has no sewer, we knew that going in but but with the bad infrastructure we decided to pay the $45 to get them to come dump our tanks. This cost was per dump.

They location is way out of the way from anything. We don’t expect to ever come back here.

The cell was good for both Verizon and att. We never experienced any internet issue. The campground say they have internet but we never found it during our time

In this video, we provide you a tour of the Thousand Trails Newport / Little Diamond Lake KOA in Washington State. At the Thousand Trails Newport / Little Diamond Lake KOA, we show you the best campsites and provide a walking tour of campground amenities. This campground sure is scenic and the smell of pine fills the air. Verizon cellular service clocked in at 27.4 Mbps download speed and 1.47 Mbps upload speed. AT&T cellular service clocked in at 0.71 Mbps download speed and 1.03 Mbps upload speed. T-Mobile cellular service clocked in at 1.74 Mbps download speed and 1.02 Mbps upload speed.

Campground was OK. Sites need some attention (trash, grass growing up through gravel, broken water handles, etc.) Hookups are close to the road and shared between 2 sites, so you need to adjust your parking location to be able to reach. The worst was the dump station. There are no sewer hookups, so everyone has to use the dump station. They require you to use their hose, which has duct tape around it, but still leaks. That means the wet on the ground is probably sewage. In addition, it it kind of an open pit with a concrete slab on top, but it isn't covering the entire hole. The stench is horrific and the flies are thick! I would recommend finding a dump station elsewhere.

This was our first Thousand Trails stay and we loved it.
Did a few laps through the TT portion of the camp (half of the campground is KOA)and found a spot perfect for us. Quiet, easy to get into and out. The staff was friendly and helpful. Restrooms and showers were clean and well stocked. Camp store is a bit underwhelming. Beautiful small lake to hike around. Loved sitting on a small rock cliff about half way round the small lake. And a disc golf course!

Would definitely camp here again and encourage others to as well.

We stayed in July of this year. A lot of traffic in and out but it is a beautiful park and everyone was awesome from the staff to other campers! We had major slide problems the day we were supposed to check out but the ranger went out of her way to help us get another week to get it fixed. Had a problem with UPS putting a package in the wrong place again ranger went out of her way to find it! Had a big space with surprising privacy for such a busy place.

This is a pretty interesting TT, it is also a KOA. It is a very large and spread out campground, and TT is on one side of the county road while KOA is on the other side. The map is very confusing and some roads are incorrectly marked inside the campground. On the TT side, the sites are also confusing - many sites have 2 pull-ins with the electric box at the front of the site. You can pull in for a motorhome on one side, and back in on the other side for the trailers - basically means on many sites the sites next to you will not have anyone in them. We stayed in July-Aug 2020, and was very warm. Not too far from Newport, and maybe 45 minutes from Spokane. Cell signal was spotty here - AT&T and Verizon had 2 bars and Sprint had nothing. Needed to use a WeBoost and made AT&T work pretty well.

So this place is actually very pretty place to visit but not to stay especially if you have any type of large rig you can forget about it. I had to do three laps around the TT part to just find a space that just sort of fit. Also you split the power box with your neighborhood and only get 30amps. So we were cramped, hot, and no cell services so we decided to leave early to move to our next destination.