Thousand Trails Ponderosa

Pros: location close to the river, a couple of restaurants near by. Gorilla taco is walking distance with drinks. Bakery across the street has the best delicious treats not caked in sugar. Cons: sites are poorly marked, lodge could be better cleaned up. Spiders are visible in webs, window and doors should be cleaned regularly. Rangers work from 9-5, so after hrs campers are smoking weed, loud music with bass, especially if your next to someone, food for thought it doesn’t matter what time quiet hrs are, no one wants to hear music and shouldn’t have to from another camper. Listening to music within your site is respectful, making others having to listen to your music is not! And again this morning at 6am I woke up to bass music.There should be a NO bass or loud music policy. No one reads the rules it seems. Fighting and yelling at 6am from the top of their lungs should be a ban from park. Some people are camping to get away from noise!! Dogs barking and some people go around the speed bump so they don’t have to slow. Full time campers have best slots by river leaving visitors and vacationers no chance to enjoy the river view as well. Crowded like sardines in slots that we can give the other camper next to us a cup of coffee, through the window. I don’t know if it’s like this always but it was my experience on this trip.I will come back next year but if it’s the same and nothing has changed, it will be my last.

This park is broken. The electrical is so broken that they only have 29 sites available. TT in California is an actual disaster... every single park in Northern California is seriously dilapidated and it's concerning bc they just keep pushing and pushing memberships with no capacity. San Benito, permanently broken, Morgan Hill, half the sites are closed for electric, Russian River, many broken sites and no bathrooms, Turtle Beach, many sites broken. This is not even addressing the seriously disgusting rigs they allow in these parks.... there are actual burnt out rigs, mice infested rigs and rigs that look like meth labs. This is fraud, disgusting and absolutely ridiculous.

Great staff always treats us like family. Even when all the accommodations aren't available, they go above and beyond to make up for it five star plus

Thousand Trails needs to get someone out here to sort this place out. Employees are locking up whatever service (like the pool or bathrooms and showers) whenever they don't want to take care of them. Some employees admit there is nothing wrong with them, and some give excuses that seem random based on who you ask and who is asking. If you don't want to be on a section that is so loud with road noise you feel like you are parked in a highway (and better yet wanting one with open bathrooms), they want you to dish out a bunch more money on top of your membership just to be in one of the few spots that isn't awful. In fact, I was left feeling like they would open services and give better spots only if I forked over more and more cash. I know a lot of Thousand Trails places are old and falling apart, but this one could be more "quaint" and less "disaster" if they actually just took care of things and stopped extorting guests. "A" loop though? An absolute nightmare of road noise all day and night, and should not be used for anything but overflow parking.

Parking lot was a great place to change a flat tire. Plenty of room to work, nice flat surface. Would recommend.