roadtripper57885

My wife and I have been visiting this campground for years now is it is a great base camp to Lassen and fishing up in Redding. Unfortunately we have seen it decline over the years. When we pulled into the campground this past time we spent an incredible amount of effort and time pruning all of the trees that lined the campground driveway is they have not been maintained and would easily have damaged our new rig. We literally left piles of branches off to the side while the host helped drag them. Monday morning upon contacting the regional ranger responsible for the campground and expressing our frustration of the lack of care and the obvious decline that is occurred there he scoffed and chuckled at what I explained to him and suggested that he had no personnel to solve the problem that I described immediately or in the near future. He highly recommended I do not prune any more trees or he may have to send law enforcement out. I continue to prune the remainder of the trees with my wife to make sure we could safely get out of the campground later that day. It is looking like a homeless camp but I do believe many of the people there staying in the non-electrical sites simply can't afford to stay elsewhere and introduce a peculiar element to the experience. There are beautiful trails throughout and along the river which allows you to see some wildlife if you're fortunate. So sad to see it go downhill like this