Whispering Pines RV Park

This park is situated right across the highway from Cle Elum, close to shopping, coffee and restaurants. It's treed and rustic, with paved roads and gravel, level, sites. Some sites have full hook-ups and some have only water and electric. No Wi-Fi. The campground lies directly adjacent to the Yakima river, and some sites actually back up to the river, though there is a high bank, so there are only one or two site where you might actually have a view of the river. You also can't hear it, as the highway noise is pretty loud — loud enough that it makes opening windows unpleasant. Quiet campground otherwise, with well-spaced sites. There's an RV parts and repair right next door, owned by the same people. Lots of mosquitoes in summer!

Dog-friendly; good walking trail along the river. Great Verizon reception.

I recently had a business conference at nearby Suncadia resort. The $250/night rooms at the resort were not as appealing as bringing my house with me and staying at Whispering Pines.

We had a great overall experience.The sites are spacious and our site was relatively private. Each site has 50/30/20 amp, cable TV, and water hook-ups. There were trash bins every few sites. There are no sewer hookups due to the Yakima River being literally a few feet from the campground. The park is well maintained but not overly manicured. They've got a reasonable well equipped RV parts store. There's a bathhouse that appears to be relatively new.

We arrived Thursday night after hours. The campstore was closed but the camp hosts were kind enough to stay up long enough to greet us and direct us to our site. In the morning we registered and paid at the campstore. We met the owners who were friendly and welcoming.

We liked the proximity to Cle Elum (about a mile to downtown), Roslyn (a couple miles), and Suncadia Resort (about 5 miles). We visited restaurants and stores at each place during our four day stay.

This campground is dog friendly. There's an off leash dog run. There's also a nice hiking trail along the Yakima River.

The name Whispering Pines is a bit ironic, because realistically the only thing you'll hear is the traffic on I-90. Tent trailer and tent campers may want to bring ear plugs or run a fan for some white noise.

The noise level from I-90 is the only negative thing I have to say. We'll stay here again next time we have occasion to visit the Cle Elum, Roslyn, Suncadia area.

I agree with the other review, all is good, expect freeway noise. I-90 freeway is very close, so the freeway noise was loud in the RV utility hook up area, but the dry camping area is a ways off in trees by the Yakima River. The freeway noise was not as noticeable in that area. Nice little pond for swimming and Kayaking. Two local towns, Roslyn and Cle Elum were fun to explore with the history of coal mining and the Milwaukee Railroad in this area. Most sites in the hook up area had paved 8 x 10 concrete patios, conveniently placed for access to your rig. The site were wide and long, nice to have extra room for all of the outside toys, grills, portable gazebos, propane fire places. There was a burn ban in effect, so the propane fire places was the only option for an outdoor fire. We differently will be back to stay, as this was only 2 hours east of Seattle.

We enjoyed our stay here from June 26th to July 10th. Even though it is a RV park it has the feel of a state park. We had a full hook-up back-in site and only had a neighbor on the driver side and across from us. There was no site on the passenger side, just trees/bushes and the building for the restrooms, showers and laundry. Because of this, this site offered some privacy. Laundry was fairly priced. Not the best machines in the world, but got the job done. We had no complaints here, just some highway noise, but it wasn't that bad. Great walking trail along the Yakima River and also a nice walk down Hanson Ponds Rd, which leads to a public fishing area. When we were here they were working on future RV sites. They offer propane and there is a dump station (for park guests only). They also have a small store on the premises. Plenty of places to walk your dog. They also have an off leash dog park. Park is very close to amenities. We would definitely stay here again if in the area.

This is A very clean and well run park. Staff was very friendly and the store was better equipped then most rv stores. Would highly recommend this park.

We decided to stay here due to its close proximity to the town of Cle Elum and to get away from town for awhile. Our trip to this RV park was during winter, so there was very low occupancy while we were there. It is located just off the I-90 on the south side of the interstate, but well within walking distance (½ mile) of Cle Elum. There was great hiking and biking trails near by to connect yourself with nature and the culture of the area. One of the trails we walked took us up to the town of Roswell. This was a great trail and was mostly snow covered when we were there, making it a great place to snowshoe, snowmobile or cross country ski. The trails in the area were well kept and in good condition for hiking, biking or just to explore. The RV park itself was very limited on site availability at the time due to snow fall. We were notified of a change of reservation sites a couple of days before arrival due to the snow and access to the sites. We arrived to find that they had plowed the major roads and our sites access. The store onsite provided a wide variety of needs in case something broke or was needed for your camping needs. They responded well with the guidelines of the state regarding COVID and were very well to work with. Access to the park was good for our 42' GD Momentum, and our site had 50 AMP service with water. A dump station was near and provided the ability to empty tanks as needed. The site was level with a gravel base and long enough for our trailer and truck. The sites were mostly tree filled making some shade for when the sun did appear, but not hindering the height of the trailer. WiFi was reliable and good for us while we stayed a the park. This park was close to I-90, and did have background traffic noise, but it was not annoying as it was more of constant background noise. We liked the proximity of this park with the many areas to visit while in Central Washington (Roslyn, Ellensburg, Leavenworth and Wenatchee). Overall this is a very nice park with great walking areas near the Yakama River and we would stay here again.

Nice park with walking trail along the river. Close to town and freeway. Clean and quiet. Decent wi-fi.

Nice location. Close to Roslyn and Cle Elum. Specifically requested spots close together as it was 3 families staying together. Ended up arriving and all the spots were wrong. Our spot looked freshly dug up with huge rocks and exposed branches. The pictures online are not accurate for the location in the “backwoods”. We had electric and water, but no sewer despite our request.

All the roads to our family were super rocky and uneven. Felt like off-roading and camping in one. Not a typical RV PARK. Also, the pond used for swimming has leaches, snakes, and you sink into it. Also a train goes by and it sooooo noisy.

Site 61 is a dry camp site in the "Backwoods" section. Sites in general are large with lots of trees. Issue with this park is the I-90 Noise. If you like to sit outside your rig and watch the world pass by you will not have an enjoyable visit, road noise is constant only changes in how loud.

If your rig is just a base camp / motel room while you are out and about then I-90 is less of a concern.

Good wi-fi. Good consumer cellular service.

We needed an overnight during the summer and was able to snag a spot within a couple days of arrival during the summer. A lot of interesting ways to camp here with sites that back up to the river (which we had) some that backed up to a small lake/ large pond and then in the heavy wooded area where you felt like you were in the middle of a forrest with some campsites carved out. And they also had pretty good WIFI as well (not a need for us ,but it was nice). This park has a lot going on and I believe they were still refining and making some more spots on the back wooded area of the park, plus a nice trail that goes around the border of the park on the Yakima River. Would be good for a weekend spot to use for exploring the Cle Elm area for sure. We also filmed a video with a site by site review of the whole campground on our Youtube channel. - Unique Adventurez