Newport, Oregon

FWIW, my wife and I stayed at the Whalers Rest TT campground. The only good thing we can say about it is that the membership fee was free. We called ahead, made a reservation, told them what we had, size, etc. Book reservation. Arrived early afternoon, told them we had a reservation then asked about site number. Gate "guard" told us "just drive around till you find something". So we did. Sites are jammed together, power connections about to fall over. Site we ended up in had dog poop all over it (general condition of CG was poorly kept up. Kids played area looked like an accident waiting to happen. "Store" and "community" center were rarely open. Never did see anyone from the CG going around cleaning things up. I am not a Thousand Trail fan, but was really disappointed in this place, so much that we cut our stay short after 1 night. There are lots of other campgrounds around the area, especially the State Parks which are much better and much cleaner. The whole Oregon coast thing is hard to get sites lately and you really have to book ahead. You may get lucky just pulling into one and find a site for a 1 or 2 day stay that is not continuously booked. We are getting a new MH now and again, we get the free TT 1 year membership. Not sure if or how much we will use it again.