Bully Creek Park Campground - Vale, Oregon (June 2018)

We were following our GPS to Bully Creek Campground. It seemed that we were on a road to nowhere. 

The park had a Corps of Engineers look to it when we finally arrived there. Individual sites were large and there was a grassy area in the middle of our loop.

Large sites in Bully Creek Park Campground

Our site was on a lake. Our concern was that the site had a pronounced front-to-back tilt. Since our site was gravel, I hoped we would not have trouble getting out the next morning and asked another Airstreamer in our group to stay until we leave to make sure we could pull out. By the way, our truck had no problem pulling Rosie, our 25 foot Airstream trailer, out the next morning.

Our site

It was easy to see one of the differences between this campground and most others. We didn’t have a water connection. You could see where it once was, but it was removed because there was arsenic in the water supply. We were told when we made our reservation there to arrive with a full fresh water tank, so the arsenic wasn’t a big surprise.

Here are some specifics about this campground:

• There were several loops in this campground. We camped in the one next to the lake
• Our site was gravel and we could not level Rosie left to right and front to back
• Our site had 20, 30 and 50 amp electrical service 
• Our site did not have a water connection 
• Our site did not have a sewer connection 
• The campground had a dump station 
• The bathhouse was clean but needed updating. There were multiple signs warning you not to drink the water because it was not safe
• We did not see any service from AT&T at our site
• We were able to watch ABC and NBC using Rosie’s TV antenna. We also saw digital channels Decades, Retro and THiS

This campground may hold the record for having the most doves cooing in the evenings. We were glad that the doves quieted down after sunset.

The  lake