Shafer Butte Campground & Picnic Areas

Rhonda Donat

Beautiful scenery

Brady Callahan

The good: The scenery in the area is great, with a view point looking off to the Southeast with views of multiple mountain ranges. Vault toilet a short distance from the tent sites, next to the parking lot. Each tent site has a picnic table, tent pad, and fire pit with grill. You only have to walk a very short distance from the parking lot to the tent sites on rough pavement. If you are only visiting for a picnic or day hike, this is a lovely place and the Mores mountain trails are nice. With the improvements being made for summer use at Bogus, this could be a good base if you are looking to camp near mountain biking trails and a whole bunch of other activities. The bad: Camp host generator was running literally all night. Camp sites are packed super close, unnecessarily so, to be honest. Due to this, the inconsiderate teenagers at another site probably kept the rest of the campers up until I told them to shut the (_&# up at 3AM. The camp host probably couldn't hear the kids singing and shouting over the near constant roar of their generator. Host never checked on the camping area while we were there. Sites we reserved were not marked as such. Other sites are marked as reserved over a month from now. Toilet was filthy, and tp ran out. I don't exactly expect a vault toilet to be sparkling, but having no tp, the floor covered in mouse poop, human pee and other best-left-uninvestigated stuff left a lot of room for improvement. Probably a great place to camp if you are ready to party, or if you are literally the only people there.

natalie korman

Very pretty

sal bando

Great views