Thousand Trails Cultus Lake

We visited on a day pass, having upgraded our membership recently. We were in the area and wanted to check it out. We encountered two young men employees who were both polite and respectful. Though winter, and most activities and buildings were closed for the season, we toured them all. Everything was very neat and clean, including the bathrooms and showers. It was obvious the management keeps up with enforcing site cleanliness - no obvious annual sites with an abundance of 'mess' throughout sites - as has been witnessed at a few other Thousand Trails campgrounds... We were very impressed with both the campground as well as the area. In season, there is quite an abundance of family activities to choose from! Amusement park, water/slide park, incredible miniature golf, several beaches... We are truly looking forward to returning!

We have been camping here for 43 years. It used to be outstanding with plenty of activities. Now there are none. The bathrooms during our stay in July were absolutely disgusting- black mould growing in the showers, toilet paper all over the floors, no paper in the paper towel dispenser, overflowing garbage can. Management should be deeply ashamed. The dog waste receptacle across the road from our site was overflowing onto the road for three days. Thank goodness we are self contained and could use our own bathroom. This place could continue to be lovely with more effort by staff.

Was a bit of a shocking experience being that we've stayed at TT locations across WA, OR, and CA before but this was our first time at TT Cultus Lake. Made a reservation but upon arrival was surprised with the info that they don't actually hold a site for you but rather encourage you to go find your own site. This wastes a LOT of time and aimless driving around the whole campsite in search of an open space. We arrived on a friday night, in the dark, thinking like a normal campground, RV park we had a reservation (as the email confirmed) but in reality you don't. After much circling in the dark and realizing the sites are VERY poorly marked with site numbers at the BACK of the lot (this makes them difficult to see even in the daytime, and virtually impossible to see at night) we finally found one single available site. In the morning I awoke to discover (now daylight and can actually see the grounds) that our site has garbage, wrappers, cans etc left all over the place. Clearly no one at any point in the day had ever come by to check the site or clean it. This is now getting into really really poor performance here by an RV park. With no proper site reservation system and clearly no site supervision, this encourages campers to now take advantage of what they think they can get away with. Picnic tables being stolen out of sites, sits being PURPOSELY blocked by neighboring campers so they can have extra storage for their items or even vehicles. Our neighbor bragged to me about how he had parked his truck in an open site next to him so no one would take the open site. Meanwhile within the same hour I could see people arriving and circling looking for an open spot and they have no idea that the spot they just drove past IS available because someone is unjustly using it for bonus parking. I would describe the overall system in place at this RV park as "very poor". Upon checkin the employee at the booth also told my family there is a "path to the lake" just follow the river downstream. In the morning I went to go and check out the path and came to find 50 yards or so down the path is a large chainlink fence with big signage NO TRESPASSING and the fence goes down the embankment into the river to keep people off this private property. THIS is the path your employee is encouraging guests to take by stepping into the river and manuevering around the fence to then get into private property and continue on to the lake. The liability alone instruction visistors to take a dangerous path onto some other owners private property is mind blowing. Lastly the employee who was checking us in upon arrival was clearly stoned. The whole booth he was in reeked of a vape pen and he was very obviously high. These are all my 100% real experiences at this park. I could not in good faith recommend someone coming here. It needs some serious overhaul on staff training (the information they give out, the image they present) and facility management (making people circle in the dark for sites with no CLEAR site #'s is absurd).

I did not give five stars because they only have 30 AMP and no pickleball courts or mini golf. Other than that it is a nice quiet campground in the spring time at least unless it's spring break for the kids. There is a pool but not open until May long weekend. There is a store too, with winter hours of Wed through Sat, 10 - 5.

We camping a lot this summer at cultus thousand trails. Kids playing free, safe and fun!! We’ll come back next year!