Coast to Coast...No Thanks.

Mr.Beebo wrote:
Stayed at Compton Ridge in 2009 and 2011. Just curious to what aspects inside the park have deteriorated. Were any improvements made prior to reopening?

Roads were in worse shape than our last visit but there were no chuckholes. Except for the office area landscaping was nonexistent. Erosion has taken a toll on some of the sites and our site had a three inch drop off from the concrete RV pad to the ground. I had to make an extra step with my Lynx Levelers so my wife could get up on the first step of our trailer. The two hiking trails in the campground have not been maintained and were not in hiking condition.

Without the levelers the first step was a doozy.


On a positive note, the cable television the campground offers had the most stations I’ve ever experience in a campground or park. I don’t know if you would call this an improvement but they took out some campsites and brought in park model trailers for rental.

Compton Ridge is an older park so the sites aren’t very long and they’re close together. Also, the roads are narrow. In our section we had to ask our neighbor to move his toad so that we could back into our site. He had to move it again when we pulled out. My Silverback has opposing slideouts so when I backed in I had to do some maneuvering to get the trailer situated between the power pedestal on one side and the roof over the picnic table on the other. The best sites in the park are the pull-thrus.

These were nice pull-thrus and fully paved but if you look at the site on the right you can see the scrape marks on the pavement because of the severe exit angle.


Here's an interesting full hookup site. Don't fall off the edge hooking up to the sewer. Be sure to watch out for the trees too.


Here's another view of some of the sites.


It amazes me that this campground continues to get excellent reviews. I must be missing something.