Douthat State Park in the United States

Large well spaced level sites! Smaller quiet campground with mediocre Verizon service. We could stream on occasion with booster, but reliable enough for phone, email and light browsing. Bathrooms and showers are top flight. Water and electric with dump station.

3 years ago

We booked a week at Whispering Pines because we read on this site that it had some cell service. In advance of our trip we purchased a 25 foot WeBoost cell booster for our RV. We set it up at the campground which was lovely but sadly despite increasing the bars of strength on our AT&T phones, the service was not strong enough to operate a hotspot to our computers. We could not access our work software with the slow speed of the cell service even with the booster. We tried it in all directions several times and even moved the actual antenna from the back of the trailer to another spot on the site. I contacted the support for the weBoost antenna and they told us that we were getting the best signal we could get. They informed us that the weBoost antenna was really made just to enable you to be able to text and speak on your phone. It was not made to operate a hotspot. Little did we know. We ended up going into Clifton Forge and worked for several hours at the public library which had great wifi and even had a private room. On the other days of the week we traveled to the community college which was absolutely lovely and had several empty rooms that we could use with excellent wifi. .Lastly we worked at the camp store seated on the deck over the lake. There was excellent Wi-Fi service there and it worked extremely well. We did not get to utilize the mountain biking trails like we had hoped because a good deal of our time was spent traveling around Clifton Forge looking for free Wi-Fi signal. Clifton Forge is a small old town that’s not trending upward. However what they had there accommodated our needs. Overall we would not recommend that you come to this campsite if you’re planning on trying to work out of your trailer. Sadly it did not work for us. However the campsite is lovely, the grounds are well-maintained and we really did enjoy the time that we were able to relax.

4 years ago

We stayed at White Oaks Campground Our site was level and spacious. We had no Verizon service at White Oak. WiFi is available at the lake restaurant and select ranger stations. My only complaint is that the host was scarce, but the bathhouse was clean

4 years ago

The first impression I had about the Whispering campground was that it could easily accommodate all sizes of rigs. I travel in a class B van so space is never an issue for me. Another impression was that the place was pristine. The sites are well spaces but there is not a lot of landscaping between them. My site, however, did have some which blocked me from my neighbors on one side. Also there's not a lot of shade on most sites. My site required me to get out the leveling blocks but wasn't terrible. As an avid hiker, I was disappointed to find out I needed to drive to get to some good trails. I really like it when I can go hiking right from a campground. I drove down to the lake and found they had a nicely stocked camp store. I briefly met the host while filling out a little survey at the entrance. He was not the most welcoming but his wife was very pleasant when I met her one day while walking around. My Verizon didn't work for me but AT&T (on my hotspot) did the trick. The bathrooms and showers were clean and the water was hot. They actually provided liquid body soap! I don't like having to answer the question at the top about would I camp here again. I think it would be better to ask would I recommend it. I wouldn't camp here again because of the need to drive to get to trails and my preference for more wooded sites. But I would wholeheartedly recommend it especially for folks in big RVs.

4 years ago

We stayed in the Whispering Pines campground loop to get a better chance of cell signal to attend to some work. The campground itself is not too bad, and the sites certainly spacious and level. Check-in was a bit on the odd side - since the campground is so far from the office (and before it), you're supposed to have your check-in packet waiting at the kiosk for you. Then you just fill in a registration slip. Ours however wasn't there, so we just proceeded to our site and hoped that was ok. A ranger dropped our packet off later in the day. Individual showers at the bathhouse was definitely nice. And there's a park area with a small fitness trail right off the campground. Our site (10) was a bit exposed to the main campground road so there was a bit of traffic noise, but not too mad. There is a babbling creek, which I wish they had designed the park better around to enjoy. But otherwise, you're several miles from the rest of the park. There is a bike trail, but it was pretty overgrown and really not 'fun'. So we used our e-Bikes on the main road, which is narrow and twisty, to get to the visitor center. There you will find a camp store with a grill, and a beach to swim at. A couple other campground loops, and just a whiff of cell signal here and there. I don't recall what we used to get online here, but between our three cellular carriers it just worked fine. So that's the plus. Otherwise, if you're coming to Douthat to experience the park - we recommend one of the other loops closer to stuff. They were quite RV suitable with hook-ups.

4 years ago