Review: Whispering Pines Campsites

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Bryan

1 year ago
1/5

Do yourself a favor, and camp elsewhere. If I could give zero stars, I would.

The road are extremely narrow, and many of the campsites are extremely difficult to back into.

Other sites (like the one my wife and I stayed at) have the fire ring an absurd distance away. As other reviews have stated, don’t even think about moving the fire ring, or you will be charged $50.

Hopefully if you decide to stay here, you enjoy cold showers, because the only shower facility at the campground costs 50¢ for 4 minutes of water. The label on the machine claims that the shower “allows for time for the water to heat up”, however, the water was absolutely anything but warm. (Yes, I had the shower turned all the way to hot) I also timed the shower run time at 4 minutes, and 30 seconds.

There was nobody in the office at any time we were on the property. As per the website, the office is open from 1pm to 4pm. We never saw anyone there, and every time my wife and I went to the office, the lights were off and the door was locked. Luckily, there was a gas station 10 minutes away where we were able to purchase our ice and firewood.

Speaking of firewood, the owners claim that you are only allowed to buy their firewood, or firewood that has been kiln dried. With that being said, many of the seasonal campers at the campground have piles of firewood that was clearly neither purchased at the office, or kiln dried.

The only positive thing about this place is that it was quiet.

Finally, if you have read other reviews of this place, I’m sure that you have noticed the replies from the owner on many reviews. Extremely unprofessional, and a very poor practice.

((Response to owner))

You are incorrect. We stayed on site 7,from July 26-28 so what you are CLAIMING occurred, is completely fabricated and did not happen.

You are correct, you charge $25 to move the fire ring, and then another $25 to build a fire outside of a designated area. Whatever.

Your showers have 200 gallons of hot water. Congratulations. Doesn’t explain why it was freezing cold when i was the only one in the facility at an off time.

Office hours: nope, on your website it states (after a lengthy search) that those are your office hours. That is what your website says sir. Not a “blog post”. Your lights WERE off, and your office was NOT open for a 6 hour period any of they days we were there.

Firewood: I wish I could have gotten my pictures to post, but the majority of your seasonal camper’s absolutely do not have a pile of kiln dried wood.

I never claimed I could not get into the site, my concern was the low hanging power line.

Finally: We were never “spoken to” or “threatened eviction” by security. Matter of fact, the only time I ever spoke with someone from your staff was when we checked in. (And even then, it still wasn’t anyone in the office, someone was standing on the side of the road and spoke to us as we pulled in). It’s also interesting that your security, (who we never spoke with) alleges that I was “highly intoxicated”, awfully hard to do, as I do not drink. It is also interesting that you claim I was at the track, as we were In town to visit family with our new daughter. My family and I were camping alone and did not have anyone that we knew camping next to us.

We were never evicted, or threatened with such. Either your response is fabricated, or you have the complete wrong people.

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