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We have been going here for 30 + years and there have been a lot of changes here and not all for the better, and this is my first review after staying there all these years. We stayed in space 169 which is a good space with a nice view of the ocean but there is a lot of foot and vehicle traffic that comes by.
One of my big dislikes are dog owners who can not control there dogs. Our yellow lab who was on a leash as is required was attacked twice by other dogs as we walked through the camp ground because the dogs were not correctly secured with a strong leash or someone was not holding on to the leash. Fortunately no serious injury to our docile lab but I was ready to gut one dog with my Bench made knife if the owner did not stop her damn dog so be ware when you go there about 85% of the spaces have dogs which is not a bad thing it's the owners of some breeds who have to bring their bad dogs and some day it's going to cost them big from a civil suit. The dog problem has only gotten worse with the pandemic because there are some many more people camping than any other time that we can recall so now that its the end of August were going back again in Sept. but not quite to the same space and there should be less people of a certain age bracket who bring these type of animals there but we will see.
The staff is great and they keep the place as nice as they can but it's certainly showing it's age with all the use its seen over the last two years for sure, but if you're looking for one of the best beach's around in a private campground this is it. It can be noisy and you're parked very close but this last trip it was not too bad but if you get a space in the back it's much quieter, but again they are very close together and that's just the way it is with FHU's. We have a 30ft travel trailer and we have no issues with getting in and backing into our space, but some big class A's can find it difficult. We come here for the nice ocean view and beach and we always meet some great people and make new friends and get new ideas for our next adventure.

Beautiful place to stay, but we got off on the wrong foot a little bit as we arrived. Many of the USFS campgrounds in the Sierra's are older and are smaller than some others around and our reservation was for camp site 004 and the reservation web page said the site length was 45 ft good enough for our 30ft ArticFox, and it was about that length from what I could tell, but because the angle was completely wrong there was no way you could squeeze a 25ft trailer in there unless you were towing it with a small short wheel base SUV.

Be aware most of the sites in older USFS campgrounds are small and there are only about 4 space that anyone could fit a 30 ft trailer in because the angles are all wrong which make it very hard to back in, but if you have a class C then you're ok but you class A folks also have limited availability too, but for us longer rigs the roads inside the campground are narrow with lots of big trees to navigate around but we did it ok.

However, not was all lost because the camp host Kimo saved the trip by finding us a site next to his in space 20 which was a great space and 75 ft long and easy to back into. Let me give you all a little tip. Most USFS campground host will hold back spaces as this one was held back and a little sign was posted on it " Space under maintenance" for people who come in and can not fit into a space. Also about have the camp space are FF and the rest are for the reservation system so if you come up you will probably get a space it you have a rig under 25 ft.

Now for a little more ugly stuff. Kimo our camp host had to leave for a few days and his boss and the regional campground manager under contract by Westrek service westrekservice.com arrived in their class A and tried to get us to leave our space telling us we did not belong there because he wanted to park there. Remember from above that I told you that most hosts will hold back spaces well what happed is Westrek Sevices held back space 20 next to the host camp so he could come in and with his class C and stay there which is BS when there was plenty of space in the host camp site because there was no RV in the space because the host was tent camping and the space was very large and over 75 ft long. Therefore, I nothing good to say about Westrek service at all or this reginal manager. These are public campgrounds for the tax paying public not for the concessionare's private use. They're entitled to a space but how many do they need to hog up for them selves and they were of course the best and largest spaces.

I want to give Kimo a shout out because he kept that place running and clean as I have ever seen any bath room in any campground public or private and it was too bad he had to leave and was replaced with an incompetent manager.