Paradise Point State Park

The reviews on this park are rough. However, I think it’s a nice place. It’s close to the interstate, so yes you can hear cars go by. However, it is a very clean park. There is a lot of room on the camp sites. We stayed in a yurt and it was super nice. The staff kept the camp much cleaner than other state parks I have been too. The bathrooms were clean. The walk to the river is along walk but you can also drive there. The park also has disc golf. It was a nice little get away. The staff was friendly and the park was clean. If you don’t mind walking around and being close to the interstate than its not a bad place to camp. We stayed Memorial Day weekend and it wasn’t loud or out of control. I didn’t have the experience of the people below.

Very well maintained campground. Friendly staff that’s also present after hours. Restrooms are clean considering that is it a campground. I felt obligated to come on here and give it a good review after my experience. We stayed in campsite #61.

Your experience may be different depending on where in the park you camp, but ours was not great.
We took a tent campsite with water and electric, it was about $ 30. A little expensive but not unreasonable. I asked to be close to the bathroom. Our site was extremely small and close to neighbors, although the campsite was not full so we didn’t mind. Bathrooms were ok, cold running water for free only, showers were $.50 for 3 minutes.
The real issues I had were 1) the bathroom had a very bright light on all night pointing directly into our tent and at all of the campsites nearby and 2) we were not 100 feet from a major highway. The sounds of traffic all night coupled with the obnoxious light did not make for good sleeping in a tent.
It is close to Portland, I’m not sure there’s anything much closer but we chose to move to a different campsite farther from the city rather than stay here for the full three nights we were planning. I have no idea why anyone would allow a state park to be located here.
Long story short: plan better, don’t stay here.

I will start by saying if I could give zero stars, I would. You are right on the freeway. The sites are EXTREMELY close together. As in your neighbor’s tent is less than 10 feet away. The bathrooms were hosed down around 1 and then are quickly destroyed by throngs of unaccompanied children. I literally witnessed a 3 year old rinsing her own bottle in a public bathroom with no adult anywhere in sight. The children run or ride bikes screaming through trails in between every campsite. I already mentioned how close the sites are. It felt like we paid $ 30/​night to babysit while the parents of those children hid somewhere to escape their screaming rudeness. I use the term ‘parent’ loosely here.
If that wasn’t enough to drive my poor dogs insane then there was also the fun of having a drunk run around in his socks and underwear screaming at his wife to ‘f off’ at random intervals but obviously more explicitly. What fun.
There is a man that rides around on an off road golf cart that I guess is supposed to keep an eye out but he clearly doesn’t do anything except disturb the people with how obnoxiously loud his cart is. He drives by every couple of hours so just be prepared for absolutely NO PEACE.
On our second night, an rv or the septic system was clearly over full as we were graced with the glorious smell of shit all night and all of the next day while we packed. All the while the children screamed around us and taunted our dogs.
All in all, this place is disgraceful and should be shut down if they can’t keep the feces or children in check. You are better off sleeping in your car in the walmart parking lot. This is NOT AT ALL to be considered camping or any kind of getaway. The pictures on this site must be a joke.

Booked a last minute Saturday reservation online (on Friday) before what was predicted to be a cold, rainy weekend. I managed to get the very last open site, bad weather predictions and all! Sooo first off, while the website is easy to navigate and pretty user friendly, there is an $ 8.00 charge for booking online. The only way to avoid this is to take a chance and try to snag an open spot upon arrival. Here is where I will add that the camp host who helped me check in, made it painfully clear that no one ever gets in on a weekend. Ever ever never. So pay the 8 bucks and suck it up. I think I’m gonna try for a weekday camp next time, save a few dollars…
I ended up with site #33. It looked like a pretty lame spot on the map, I expected a flat, open area right beside the freeway, with horns honking and traffic whizzing by… but it was not like that at all. I have only ever camped up in the beautiful mountains of WA (Cougar, Stevenson, etc.) so I came in pretty jaded to begin with but in all honesty, the site was kinda cool. We had plenty of trees to rig up our tarps and lay out our tents. The kids had room to run and play, swing in trees, get stung by yellow jackets (yes, it really happened btw), y’know, all the fun stuff. Lots of families were there, our kids made friends with our neighbors so that was really cool. No crazy loud music or fighting, not a lot of partying going on period. I felt safe… Oh, and our site was directly across the way from the bathroom. Again a very nice surprise. It was clean which is all that matters to me. I noticed there is a shower for which you could pay 50 cents per 2 mins of hot water. We did not use them tho so Im not sure how well they function.
We liked it, will probably go back in the off season or on a weekday to avoid what we consider a higher priced camping rate.

First thing you need to know about the park is that it is right off the freeway. We stayed there for a long weekend in February. If you’re driving a motorhome or trailer setup that isn’t very maneuverable this is great because it is so close to the freeway. The downside is the noise. We camped in our motorhome and we were able to hear the freeway inside the RV but it wasn’t really bad. If you’re looking for the quiet woods camping experience that’s not here, at least not in the hookup loop. However it is clean and at least at that time of the year was quiet beyond the freeway noise.
Pros:
–Hook-​ups are 50 — 30 — 20 for electrical, water is also at each site.
–Picnic table and fire rings at site.
–Part of the campground in on a slope but the parking pads at least in site 8 is –reasonably level.
–Host is friendly and helpful.
Neutral:
–I had no interaction with the rangers so I can’t comment.
Cons:
–Some of the sites in the flatter area were quite wet, to almost being swampy.
–Freeway noise could be an issue.
–Dump station is built at an odd angle so it is a little hard to get into with a large vehicle but it is doable.
–The fresh water system for rinsing out your RV tank was leaking badly.
The camp sites are nice, but placed a little close together. This time of year it was fine as there were only a handful of other folks there, but in the summer I would be a little closer to my neighbors than I would like.
The day use area is right under the freeway, but has good access to the water, a nice large open grassy area and restroom. We had no problem driving the RV down to the day use area and turning it around, even with the car and tow dolly.
All and all we very much enjoyed our time here and would definitely return in the future. We had no issues with the other campers, everyone seemed normal and friendly that we interacted with. I felt safe and comfortable the whole time we were there.
Also for your information the park and campground were initially built before I-​5 was built, so it’s not the parks fault the freeway is there, and really in an RV we thought the noise wasn’t all that bad.

While the campground itself seemed decent upon driving in, my friend and I were very distraught when we woke to sounds of someone slowly walking around our yurt and peeking in. What was equally as disturbing, is that the 911 dispatcher nor my friend could get in contact with the park ranger. I felt that our safety was jeopardized at this campground. Maybe its proximity to interstate has something to do with the safety of this campground. We are definitely traumatized after our stay here. I’m thankful we were near a city and had cell service to get in touch with the police, who escorted us to our car before we headed to a safe hotel.

Was searching for last-​minute campsite for a Memorial Day weekend camping trip and Paradise Point came up.
The state park is pretty neat. It’s right on the Lewis River, and there are some decent, easy trails accessible from the camp sites. Also, the park is conveniently located just 15 minutes outside of Vancouver. My girlfriend and I left our tent (which was safe and untouched) and went into Portland and spent a day there.
Sites are clean and include a picnic table and a fire pit. There are decent showers that cost 50 cents for 3 minutes of warm water (WATCH OUT they can get scalding hot!). The restrooms are average for any public park.
The only complaint about the park would be its proximity to interstate 5. Half of the sites are pretty close to the freeway and while not deafening loud, it is certainly not quiet like most other campsite. Try to get one of the higher numbered sites farther from the freeway. We stayed in site 71, which was on the far side of the park away from the freeway and it wasn’t too loud.
Also, keep in mind there are plenty of families with children (who can get pretty noisy) at this park.