Netarts Bay Garden RV Resort

Beautiful setting on Netarts Bay. I requested a bay view site when making my reservations 6 months In advance and got the most incredible view site. Very clean bathrooms, laundry and trash area. We rented one of their completely equipped boats and crabbed all afternoon and had crab cakes for dinner! Has a great crab/​fish cleaning station and they will cook your crab for you too (for a small fee). Perfect way for our kids visiting from Florida to experience the Oregon Coast for the first time.

If you want a cheap place to cook and back your crab catch, this place is great! Staff are friendly, and cleaning station is clean and well maintained. Only small complaint, is them asking where we caught our large catch. Easy answer, out in the bay!

We have stayed here numerous times over the past 4 years. We have been in both the upper and lower sections. We have stayed for a few nights when they were extremely busy and when there was a lot of open sites. For 2 years we did their winter over program where we left our RV set up from Nov — May and given 8 days per month to use it.
We have always enjoyed ourselves at this park.
Pros:
— The sites are very clean and well organized.
— The bathrooms are extremely clean and well maintained (especially the upper bathroom)
— The park is within walking distance to great crabbing and clam digging
— The park has a great fish, crab & clam cleaning center
— The park offers boat and crabbing equipment rentals
— The park has 2 laundry facilities that are very nice and well organized
— The management is very knowledgeable about the local fishery (fish, crab and clam).
— The park is within walking distance of a good restaurant (Schooners).
— The management really cares. They take very good care of the park and enforce the rules without making you feel you are back in grade school.
— The park has a good number of pull through sites.
— The park offers RV & boat storage and they will (for a fee) pull your rig out to a site before your arrival (and put it away).
— The park does not allow transient, poorly maintained RV’s stay for extended stay programs.
— Many great day trips and things to see: great walking beaches, Cape Mears for local history/​whale watching/​bird watching, Cape Lookout for hiking, etc.
— The park’s grounds keepers and maintenance folks are friendly
— The park’s trash and recycling areas are clean and well organized
— The park has several incredible bay front RV sites. Absolutely stunning views of Netarts Bay!
The Almost Pros:
— OK Internet service
— Basic Cable, nothing flashy
— Small store that sells very basic rv and fishing items
The Almost Cons:
— Sites are on the small side but not so small that you can’t enjoy yourself.
— Not a lot of great dining in the Tillamook area. Schooners (within walking distance) is pretty good and there are a couple of restaurants in Oceanside.
Cons:
— Dealing with new employees can be challenging. The main staff is excellent but sometimes you might get a newbie who doesn’t quite know what is going on. The main staff have been their for years and it seems like the 2^nd tier employees don’t stay long: maybe they are just seasonal employees.
I highly recommend this place!

Absolutely the worst in space and in customer service. We arrived and the lady at the counter was helping two women check in. I waited 10 minutes and after hearing her repeatedly unable to answer questions, I walked outside. i walked back in and a man came in and was friends with the other two ladies. He walked up and started checking in and the lady behind the counter let him. It took 30 minutes to check in. We arrived our spot and it was so small width wise we couldn’t even let the dogs out on their leashes. Litterally, we were crammed in there like sardines. We tried this park out for 24 hours and couldn’t do it. My view of the recycling was annoying and when the guy next door flushed the toilet you could hear it. I have traveled all over in my RV and have never seen such small pads for an RV. They weren’t accommodating when we brought up the issues. We found another place which is just perfect. No offer of future nights were given to us. They just kept saying the didn’t/couldn’t refund. I realize RV parks don’t often refund but there should be exceptions. We were there for less than 24 hours.
I would not recommend friend or foe to this place.