Address: Pinecrest, CA 95364, USA
savageasflux
Pretty nice $30 first come first serve no reservation campground about 3/4 mile from Pinecrest Lake. About 3/4 mile walk to the lake depending on camp site. Flush toilets with lights, but only a few for the whole campground. Good fresh water from spigots. Trees are slowly dying away leaving less and less shade so be nice to the trees when your here. Most camp sites have several spots for tents, and most have large paved parking pads for at least 2-3 good sized vehicles, several different types of sites from open sunny, to shady, some rocky, some in a meadow and some with tents spots down a hill. You can hear the highway from the campground louder depending on what size you campng in but its not horrible, but the semis drag brakes can be loud if late at night. They allow fires in fire pits currently when I visited. I had to review because there was no good picture of the camp site layout I could find online except their hard to read size number map posted so I had to put a good map I found of the grounds, enjoy, camp, and have fun!! 4 stars cuz its far from lake, lots of sun, limited bathrooms and neighbors houses with lights on all night long.
Rae K.
No reservation needed or possible, it’s a first come first serve. To find a spot you’ll have to drive through the campgrounds. It helps to have one person get out of the car and read the permits, sometimes previous occupants forget to take their permits off the site markers, so it’s easy to think the site is occupied. Once you’ve found your desired site, park(each site has it’s own parking spot). Make sure you take a picture of your license plate and remember your site number. Head back towards the entrance of the camp grounds, in front of the info board you’ll find the permits you’ll need to register for you site, oh yes make sure you have a pen too, and exact change, cause you’ll be depositing payment into a slot. I didn’t have exact change, and wasn’t able to find staff around. I recommend arriving well before evening, so you’re not setting up tent in the dark and with bugs. Beautiful meadow view. Restroom well stocked with toilet paper, trash was emptied daily, clean except for the bugs, but what do you expect, it’s better than porta-potties, functional soap dispensers and sinks with hot water. What I loved about this campground was that each site has a parking spot and it’s own fire pit and some even have benches nearby. You’re allowed to burn any downed wood, twigs, pine cones around, NOT TRASH. There are dumpsters around to dump trash. Tons of cute spots to take pictures. Also some sites might be hard to accommodate more than one car, there’s a parking lot next to the campgrounds. One last thing, I have sprint and the reception SUCKED, I was only able to receive and make calls. But luckily we didn’t need phone service, just make sure you check the weather & maybe make a make available offline if you’re maps dependent.
Rae K.
No reservation needed or possible, it’s a first come first serve. To find a spot you’ll have to drive through the campgrounds. It helps to have one person get out of the car and read the permits, sometimes previous occupants forget to take their permits off the site markers, so it’s easy to think the site is occupied. Once you’ve found your desired site, park(each site has it’s own parking spot). Make sure you take a picture of your license plate and remember your site number. Head back towards the entrance of the camp grounds, in front of the info board you’ll find the permits you’ll need to register for you site, oh yes make sure you have a pen too, and exact change, cause you’ll be depositing payment into a slot. I didn’t have exact change, and wasn’t able to find staff around. I recommend arriving well before evening, so you’re not setting up tent in the dark and with bugs. Beautiful meadow view. Restroom well stocked with toilet paper, trash was emptied daily, clean except for the bugs, but what do you expect, it’s better than porta-potties, functional soap dispensers and sinks with hot water. What I loved about this campground was that each site has a parking spot and it’s own fire pit and some even have benches nearby. You’re allowed to burn any downed wood, twigs, pine cones around, NOT TRASH. There are dumpsters around to dump trash. Tons of cute spots to take pictures. Also some sites might be hard to accommodate more than one car, there’s a parking lot next to the campgrounds. One last thing, I have sprint and the reception SUCKED, I was only able to receive and make calls. But luckily we didn’t need phone service, just make sure you check the weather & maybe make a make available offline if you’re maps dependent.
Rebecca Gumienny
Great camp grounds, easy walk to the lake. Would be good if it had shower facilities though.
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No movies this year 😔
I do think so but the spots are very small....
Yes at designated areas can swim otherside of boat marina
Yes and flushing toilets too!
The only plugs I saw were in the bathrooms, and just an FYI, only Verizon gets service there and it's not not that good.
Last week was bad enough to keep from exercising. Also no stars at night
I have Verizon I did get reception... but my son & his wife had at&t & they didn't have reception, so yea...
Yes you can have campfire
Meadowview is first come first serve.. but your best bet to find a space is to be there early for sure.. $23. per night, Good Luck.. You will have an Awesome time.. I just got back this past Sunday we stay two nights.. Have Fun.. Oh and only 6 people per site.
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Yes there is 😊
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