Hood Park

Great!

Reservation system easy. Campground well maintained. Bath and shower room excellent. Very clean. Free showers. The negative is the location. It is across the river from a noisy industrial area. Hard time sleeping through that. Obviously not something that can be easily fixed.

The park bathroom was very clean and the grounds were well maintained. Would be a great place to fish from shore but the water is stagnant. Cleaning out the milfoil would not be very hard. Many bugs so we plugged in a bug zapper witch helped out a lot.

We were unaware of the protocol of online reservation and when we found a sight and started unloading we were met with an unfriendly reproach. We were able to reserve online immediately.
We had a hard time sleeping because of the sour smell from the factory across the river
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Beautiful Park along the Snake River.

Tidy park however the spiders are numerous and awful.

Location, facilities, staff were top notch BUT the infestation of large spiders was close to intolerable. I know we're in nature and their habitat, but these large black spiders were everywhere and very invasive to every aspect of outdoor activity. To the point I left my truck and trailer in the driveway and killed spiders and cleared webs for three days afterwards. On day three I found spiders in the shop - but no equipment, truck or trailer that was at Hood Park ever entered the shop. Day four I moved trailer and truck into the shop and bug bombed the entire space - so far that seems to have work but I'm still leery each time a walk through a web strand anywhere near the shop or house.

Had a great weekend! Easy checking in, camp hosts did a good job communicating expectations and otherwise left us alone. As there was a fire ban, we made sure to bring our propane fire pit to enjoy it. Bathrooms are cleaned daily, showers are free for registered campers, though we did not utilize them. The placement of the playground in the middle of the loop is awesome for kids and parents who are watching them. We did see spiders, and people closer to the river had even more problems with spiders. The highway noise does fade away, but understand the park is pretty close to the highway. I grew up camping at Hood Park so I enjoy the barge traffic and the associated noise at times.
Bottom line: Beautiful park, clean restrooms, more noise than parks farther away from highway, and there are spiders in the later part of the summer.

Hood Park closes for the year on Labor Day. September and October would be great months for camping at Hood Park. I would like to see the campground remain open for camping until the end of October.

To many spiders!! Otherwise a very beautiful campground right on the river.
Met two sets of attendants ... younger couple was very nice and did what they could to ensure we enjoyed our camping experience. The older couple were not very pleasant at all. Right from the start they told us they were 'unpaid volunteers' and then proceeded to try to make us as miserable as they were. They even argued that some information that the Park Ranger, who stopped by our camp site, gave us was wrong?