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    Silver Lake Resort

    3.0 (59 reviews)
    Closed 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Cabins were well stocked for an extended stay.

    Helpful staff. Great variety of accommodations. Lots to do with the boat dock on site. Being close to the visitor center is a plus.

    My St Helen's
    Dany C.

    My family and I visited this establishment & we were all happy with the experience. We traveled out from Portland to escape the heat and rented a boat for the day. As PNW Natives we have an appreciation for the Outdoors and the adventures that the area provides. Silver Lake has beautiful views of both Mt St Helen's and Mt Rainier. It was our first time to Silver Lake, but certainly not the last. The staff is friendly and helped to contribute to an amazing day trip!! The staff / ownership is BIPOC Friendly. This is a "Local Small Business" that I will be returning to in the near future.

    Beautiful grounds at the Resort

    Great location. Terrific staff doing a great job keeping the place beautiful. Lots to do with access right on the lake. Best to rent a boat and sight see.

    Cabins near the lake

    Been coming here for years. Great job keeping it clean and professional. Close to the road and attractions. Loved the comfortable cabins.

    Main driveway into the resort.

    Great views of Silver Lake and Mount St Helens. Close to Hwy 5. Friendly staff and clean campground.

    Playground

    This is the second year our family has come to this campground, and the new owners have done in more with it. Kids love the lawn and play structure. I enjoy that they have lots to offer. And being near the lake and Mount St Helens is a plus.

    Boats to rent on Silver Lake

    Great staff. Easy to get to. Great views of the lake and mount st Helens. A variety of ways to stay w rv and tent and motel and cabins.

    RV camping and open space to play.
    Old Man W.

    Located next to Silver Lake, this campground, in addition to spaces for RVs, had spaces for tent camping, some cabins, and motel rooms. And being on the lake, people were also boating and fishing.

    My husband and I have been going to Silver Lake Resort since 2007, We go multiple times a year and we always bring other families with us who rent their own spaces too. This year we have been to Silver Lake Resort 3 times. Over the years we have been so much we got to know the owners and the camp hosts as well as the employees. Each time SLR got new owners it has been fine even when the new owners change things and tightened up the rules no biggie because they were still family friendly and very good with letting their employees do their jobs. The new owners came, and we have been multiple times since and have been patient with the changes and due to the same employees being there we continued to come. This most recent stay this weekend has made it so we no longer want to come back, and we will be staying at Silver Cove or Streeters from now on. The owners are very nit picky they are really up in your business and trying to micromanage you before giving anyone a chance to do things properly on their own. The owners also will see parents watching their children at the park (all the RV spots and some cabins you can very easily watch the park from) and the adult owners would go up to the minor children (ages 3 to 10) and speak to them instead of talking to the parents who are right near the park that they even looked at and letting the parents handle it. There were also autistic kids there and the owners were really on them about playing and how they were playing on the equipment, that mind you this equipment is well over 20+ years old, no updates have been made to any of it and it has held up just fine. It is clear the new owners do not want children staying in their resort. They seem like a bed n breakfast would be more to their style of managing. As far as the employees, they are wonderful, some had been there before the new owners and they are absolutely fantastic. Excellent customer service skills from them and zero customer service skills from the owners. I was not even given my keys when I checked in and the information the owner gave me didn't even match up with my last booking that I had done when we checked in with the employee 2 months ago. The owner didn't know what she was doing when it came to checking people in and telling them information and she should let the employees handle check ins because they have done it for years and do amazing at it. Customers aren't the only people the owner's nit pic at. They even nit pic the employees, we overheard employees getting in trouble for doing their jobs. And it was clear the employees aren't treated the greatest just like the customers. We heard customers one by one being asked to check in when they had been staying already for the weekend. Never in the 20+ years of going there has the camp host or employees ever not known who was staying there. The owners live on site in what used to be the motel suite (my husband and I have stayed 3 times in that room many years ago when it was rentable) so they are always watching and always micromanaging. The owners before them also lived on site in that same space and they just worked the property they did maintenance they fixed it they built things they cleaned they left customers alone and trusted their camp host and manager to do their jobs which they did. The owner also made mention of not letting our dog into the lake due to the algae that was present, however there were no signs up saying no swimming for any kids. Again, not kid friendly. There is no parking along the fence which I have known for many years, and we saw some people parked there and those people were talked to immediately but there is a local who will come there every day and park on that fence, and no one says anything to them. Even if they are parked there all day. People who had been staying the weekend were told to check in before walking onto the dock yet this local can come and launch and hang out all day every day and doesn't have to check in. Simple fixes for the playground, put up a sign that says no kids over the age of 10, or take the playground out completely since the owners don't want kids having fun. My family is really disappointing in how SLR has come to be and are sad for the employees because again they are amazing! They know what they are doing, and they know the regulars and they ask the right things like checking in if our stay was good or not and remember us from previous times. They offered us extra pillows without us asking for them and offered us extra blankets which we didn't need but they anticipated our needs. If you want friendly owners who are family oriented, then check out Streeters. They make you feel welcomed unlike the owners of SLR who do not make you feel welcomed they make you feel like you have to watch your back and walk on pins and needles. We will be telling all our families and all the big fishing people we know and have them all go somewhere else.

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    Fabulous time camping, always friendly people at the campground and it is well worth the drive .

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    First time there!!! You become one with nature the lake is big!!! You can rent some awesome boats!!!

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    The service was friendly and all was ready and waiting for us when coming to rent a platform boat for the second time.

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    Alder Lake Park - A friendly deer grazing at one of the camp sites.

    Alder Lake Park

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    Nice little stop over on the way to Mt Rainier or if you are exploring the area…read more We went on a weekday in the fall so parking was plentiful and it was very quiet. The weather was also clear enough to see the lake, with a dock to walk around and stretch our legs. I didn't see much else to do aside from exploring the lake and whatever other water activities are involved like fishing, kayaking, etc. The restrooms are actual flush toilets with soap and water, and they were pretty clean aside from the hard water stains on the toilet bowl that is inevitable with park bathrooms. Still a better option that pit toilets. Fun Fact: The code name for Intel's 12th gen desktop processors was based on this lake.

    There are two elements for me when it came to camping. One is the campground facility itself, the…read moresecond one is the campers demography, or mainly the neighbors. For the campground facility I'd say this park checked all the boxes for me. There's natural water body, clean toilet (even with shower, although I didn't use it), and I got to see deers! There's also a convenient store right outside the campground. What I hate was my neighbor. To be specific, the group of people check in later on the 5th of July at the campsites of 66 and 65. I've never seen campers this obnoxious in my life. Not only they arrived late and make a scene, they also kept their boring unseasoned music all the way til almost 1am! Like what kind of etiquette was that? Who raise those people? And they also had kids too. Yeah so besides these annoying neighbor I actually find this campground quite nice.

    Merrill Lake Campground - Merrill Lake from canoe

    Merrill Lake Campground

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    Merrill Lake Campground is a pretty awesome spot. Awesome enough that I honestly hemmed and hawed…read moreover whether to even add it to Yelp. Although my better Yelp humanitarian judgment has won out here, I still hope you read this, enjoy it, and camp somewhere else. Why? This little campground only has about 9 sites. It's free but you need a discovery pass. There is a camp host and there are surprisingly clean pit toilets on-site, but no potable water. The sites fill up fast in the summer time, but have a 3-day limit that's enforced by the friendly but vigilant camp host. I don't want it to fill up even faster now that I'm sharing this, since I do plan to hit this spot at least one more time before summer is over. There are no reservations (first-come, first-served) and the campsites are designed to work for larger groups - some of them could easily fit 7-10 tents. Each site is spaced decently well away from the others, and offers a picnic table, fire ring and places to pitch. The sites don't really offer views of the lake, they're set back in the trees, but there's plenty of shade Not too dusty, but some sites are heavy with gravel. While it's car camping, you don't drive right in to your site but park in a common lot, then walk in (the farthest you'll have to walk is about 50 yards). So no car noise up close to your site. This little campground sits just by Merrill Lake, a nice smaller lake that does not (thankfully) allow motorized boats and fishing is restricted to fly only, catch + release. For these reasons the water is calmer, cleaner, and dotted with fly fishermen and specific times of the day. At the mid-July mark the lake was warm and clear... perfect for swimming and canoeing. There are some excellent trout holes around the edges of the lake, however I'm not a fly fisherman and don't believe in torturing anything I'm not able to then eat (so catch + release is not for me). However I can see how this would be an attractive spot for a fly fisherman. This campsite is a great place to get away from PDX. Only about 1h 35m in no traffic, and the drive (especially if you come up the 503) is a nice one. Very pastoral, windy road. Get out of your house this summer and sleep under the stars. Just do it at some other campsite since this one is mine.

    We stayed for two nights-three days last weekend for my niece's birthday. We usually stay at a…read morecampsite at Lake Berryessa in California, but most of my family now lives in Vancouver so we opted for somewhere near there. Plus, the lakes in California don't even amount to the lakes in Washington/Oregon. My parents went to Merrill Lake Campground on Thursday to secure us a spot which was first come first serve. They managed to get a campsite (#4) that had a direct path to the lake (not the day use where most of the guests would walk to)! It was really big, the only downside was the hill which isn't ideal with little kiddos. Also, that we couldn't have a campfire due to Washington's high alert for fires. It just wasn't the same. You do need a discovery pass which we got at a store that was twelve minutes from the campsite- Lakeside Deli. It was $11 for a day use. The scenery was amazing. It wasn't hot at all where the campsite was. It was surrounded by trees. The water was so clear and clean. The weather was perfect once we made it out of the campsite, through the trail, and to shore. Oh god, and the drive. The drive up the mountain was the scariest I've ever seen. It was beautiful, but so scary. It was a great stay (for free at that!). I recommend this lake!

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