Discovery Campground in the United States

Arrived about 1 pm and added one more to the other 5 camp sites being occupied. The large spaces and big trees make this quite relaxing.

4 years ago

Stayed here on a Tuesday night and the campground was mostly empty. The gnats were the worst in the morning but other than that this was a great place to stay. We took our dog on the interpretive trail thats near the entrance

4 years ago

To avoid the crowds of dip-netters (hence my reference to fisherman's back sides) in the Kenai area during the month of July we chose to drive the extra 30 miles up to Captain Cook State Rec Area, which includes Discovery Campground. Some sites are small, but others are good for even 40' busses. Only a few back you up to the view of the water, but don't let that discourage you from staying. The further you travel around the loop of camp sites, the more secluded it gets if that is your thing. The plants, flowers, and berries are superb this time of the year and the trails around the campground lead you right in to explore them. The only real beef from me is all the helicopters and seaplanes that fly directly overhead, I assume bringing people and supplies to the oil rigs or Anchorage, which can be loud at times. Verizon data was useless so we had to lean on AT&T which was good

4 years ago

This park was surprisingly busy. It is showing its age with rough, sloped, small sites, the vast majority with no views. For us, it's not worth driving this far out of the way to visit here again. Zero bars of Verizon increased to 5 bars of 1x with the antenna and amplifier.

4 years ago

Good road, something of oddity in Alaska. The last five miles of the thirty mile drive past Kenai gets a little rough so slow down. No host on site the first day, but the family showed up the next. Great host with a very nice family. Had a unbelievable view of the Cook Inlet with Mt Spur on the other side. We had a back in site, the most popular site, that was just a twenty yard walk to the cliff edge overlook. They have a small deck and benches with a trail coming from both directions. One takes you down a steep hill to the beach. Its steep but slow moving gets you down without getting hurt or take a short drive around to the day use parking. All day use areas in Alaska are five dollars which will get you into as many as you can visit in one day. Cook Inlet has the second highest tides and the fastest tides in the world. While there all four of the active volcanoes came out from the clouds. Mt Spur, Mt Redoubt, Mt lliamna and Mt Augustine. We were only staying for the week end but liked it so much that we spent six days. Sad to leave. Some bigger sites. Seen all sizes come though. Gravel, which was a little off level. Still it was the nicest campground of our entire trip.

4 years ago