Van Life Campground: Molalla River Ranch

Think of it more like camping in your backyard by a 24/7 lumberyard with your noisy neighbors watching & listening while going thru your mail..... **looks nothing like website photos** Camp host told the Amazon delivery person to ignore my delivery instructions & drop my packages at his house instead of my campground, then would bring my package down to me opened. Sometimes, a few days later. Campground also has cameras with recording devices set up. I would catch them spying on me while I was having dinner or making personal calls. Any time I would see the camera light on, I would wave to the camera, and they would immediately turn it off. It was extremely creepy and strange. I always felt like someone was staring at me. So Expect Zero Privacy Also, someone from their house would randomly during the evening shine bright lights at my tent or on the campgrounds all throughout the night. Campground is also next to a lumber yard, so expect to hear loud machines & have bright lights on in the near distance all night. The major road thru town is right next to property, so expect to hear cars driving by at all hours of the day and night..... Right by the campgrounds is a dog park. On 2 separate occasions, people had aggressive breeds off leash, and they wandered onto campgrounds. Also camp host has aggressive breed guard dogs that broke out of their enclosure and were running the campgrounds. Thank God I was safe in my car at that time i had to notify host to secure his dogs he was unaware of their escape. Campground host would drive golf cart around campgrounds super early in the mornings, so expect to hear and be woken up by that. Also website claims there's working showers but they were never hooked up. I had to get water, heat it up myself transfer to bottles in order to shower. Make sure everything is secure. On Several occasion, i would come back from getting supplies or having dinner and return to find someone had gone thru my tent and personal belongings.

Very cute place. The Campground was at a slow river and opposite a big meadow with small pigs, sheep and cows. Had a great night on our way to Portland. Would 100% recomment!

No chance to spend the night at this place Yesterday night. They don't get any booking so they decide to close the place for a week. Look like they toke the decision to close when we arrive at the gate.. No many other option in this area so we drive two more hours before find a place to stay. No thank you.

No chance to spend the night at this place Yesterday night. They don't get any booking so they decide to close the place for a week. Look like they toke the decision to close when we arrive at the gate.. No many other option in this area so we drive two more hours before find a place to stay. No thank you.