I've been coming to Fashoda for about 10 years and never once have I ever had a bad experience. I love everything about this place! Beautiful campsite, spacious, multiple bathrooms, kind hosts, beautiful paths to walk or bike, and the water here is just amazing. There's the side that's closest to the campsite and there's also the side that's closer to the parking where you cross the street and have another beautiful spot of the lake to go enjoy. Overall, I have so many great memories of this place and everytime my family plans the trip, I always get super excited. Bring your family, friends, pets and have a great time here at Fashoda. Fashoda, thank you for everything that you do :D read more

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Pros: Beautiful sites! The beach is pretty and plenty of room for everyone. Campgrounds is roomy and spread out from each other.. Our family reunions here have been happening for the last 20 years and we enjoy our time here. Cons: Bathroom always stink (the ones closer to the beach the worse it is), no tp (almost 85% of the time) so bring your own. Parking sucks. Day use people take over parking for those who actually camp. Showers: $3for 3 min and additional 20sec for each quarter. Hosts: We had some new ones this year. In the beginning they were phenomenal. Assisted us in many ways and were always nice greeting us. After the weekend, one got roust and rude, throwing a fit about our campers and saying we have left a mess on the beach and need to take ALL our items off the beach. This was not us! Our family respect the beach and always keep it tidy at the end of the day. The day use people over the weekend made a mess and they assumed it was us and came out accusing our group. This is not professional in the least bit and rules should not be made up on the fly. Appreciated Ed (one of the hosts) clarifying some rules and regulations and made sure we all left happy. Rating: for place. for hosts. read more

Fashoda Campground - Beautiful sunsets - Hiking Near Me - Pollock Pines, California

Beautiful campground but our campsite was dirty and messy when we checked in. Broken glass, dog poop, garbage in fireplace and around campsite. Cleaned up before we set up camp because camphost was off. Bathrooms were gross. The camphost from Sunset shadyloop came to give us our parking pass and cleaned up the dog poop. I was grateful, she wasn't our host and didn't have to do that but she did. Bathrooms never got maintained because host was off. We could smell it from our campsite. It was unpleasant staying here. We made the best of it being on the lake. The 3 stars for dirty campsite and unmaintained reatrooms. read more

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My wife and I really liked Fashoda camp grounds. Katie the Camp Host was Super Wonderful!! Not only did she go out of her way to show us where we could could swim, she found us an available campsite next to the lake. We stayed 4 nights We did have 1 bear visit our neighbors camp. Note: Follow all Bear guidelines, store food in bear box! We had the best time! Thank you Katie read more

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Stayed here for two nights on a long camping road trip. Did manage to catch some excellent trout. There was also some cool nature sounds from the birds. However, most of the time is was drown out by the very loud adults and screaming children. They were loud until WAY past the supposed 10pm quiet time. The camp hosts seemed more concerned with making sure the showers were only open certain hours. For reference, it's from 8am-10:30am and 4-8pm. Also, it was $3 for three minutes and 25cent for each additional 20 seconds. Most expensive showers on our trip. Also, the vault toilets could gag a maggot. Also, make sure you have everything you need. The nearest market is about 10 winding miles away. read more

Fashoda Campground - Fishing in Union Valley Reservoir. Nice trout there!!! - Hiking Near Me - Pollock Pines, California

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Beautiful site right near water. With bathrooms and showers but bring quarters$3 dollars for 3 min and 20 seconds for every quarter there after. Can't park on site but can unload there and park really close. Golf cart with grounds keeper comes by often... Definitely recommend. Very peaceful during the week. read more

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This is a party campground for amateurs who don't actually want to enjoy or respect the outdoors. This was by far the loudest and dirtiest campground I've ever stayed in. There was garbage everywhere, from small bits of plastic all over our campground to straight up piles of trash left behind by the other campers on Sunday. There was music, yelling, and bright floodlights until the early hours of the morning and the camp host did nothing about it. The pit toilet was absolutely gross by Sunday morning, with an overflowing garbage and toilet paper all over the floor. Campers didn't put their coolers in the bear boxes at night, so bears ate their food and they woke up the entire campground yelling about it at 2:30 AM. Really disappointing experience. Two stars because the setting is beautiful and we loved swimming, floating, and paddle boarding in the reservoir. read more

Do yourself a favor and don't ever camp here. I've camped all over California for 20+ years and this is the worst campground I've stayed at. Why? - the garbage dumpster was at your campsite - the restrooms were always dirty, no flushing toilets and never cleaned - you can't park your car next to your campsite but in a communal parking lot - no noise control - there was a huge group near us that kept yelling, talking extremely loud, and played loud music part midnight - the host did absolutely nothing to maintain the campground On our last night we were the only family left. We ate and went to bed early. At 3am a black bear came to the dumpster that was parked 15-20 ft from our tent, banged until it open and went thru the trash for a long time. He went onto other dumpsters, making extremely loud noises. My children were shaking and scared. Thankfully we moved our car earlier that afternoon when we saw the campground empty and we waited until the bear was out of site to get in and drive away. We drove to the host site but no response. We waited it out in our car until sunrise and returned to pack up to leave. read more

Love it here. Always a great time and pretty much respectful co- camping site etiquette. I mean we're there to camp, it's outdoors, sounds travel but for the most part people respect the quiet time in the evening. The only issue I had was we picked a spot but too close to the dumpster and had a ton of foot traffic to get to waters edge. I am willing to deal with it though to have a waters edge campsite. Maybe you want more privacy don't camp as close to water. Plenty of wood for building campfires in the area by foot or scouting with car. Our location had a bbq charcoal grill and also a metal fire ring with grate. Don't waste your money or packing space with buying or bringing your own firewood. You will see the camp hosts selling it but wait to buy... unless you absolutely hate grabbing your own wood from nature. I like to come at least once a year for a mother - daughters camping trio and never have been disappointed. Our usual visit is later season end of July, into August or even September. Always great warm days and cooler nights. read more

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With not much reviews available to read & pictures to look at I am glad I went with my gut and chose this campground for memorial day weekend! The grounds were well kept, the bathrooms were always stocked. The sites were well spaced but some were on a slant. I had a large group with 3 families. I booked sites 28 & 29. When we pulled up those sites were huge! Lucky for our group it seemed as if we booked 1 big ass site! Each site had a grill, fire pit & picnic table. The beach area was more like a muddy area but there were still dry spots to bring your lawn chairs and canopy down to set up & sit to watch the kids swim. They had a couple of walking trails & bike trails not too far from the campgrounds. They also had a boat launch and plenty of parking for your truck & boat trailer. Pros: SHOWERS, non rocky beach area (still bring water shoes), hiking trails. Cons: Timed showers, vault toilets, some camp sites on slants and you have to leave your cars in the parking lot but they do have loading zones to unload your gear. Tip: Avoid booking sites 1-6 & 30 they are on slants. read more

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Things I liked. There is a body of water. Things I disliked. The string lights kept on all night at another site. Lighting up my tent all night. The loud noise from drunk campers all night. The lack of reassurance that the bear getting into a left out cooler was fine and that the other campers did not need to sleep in their cars. With the headlights on. Ugh. I had to get out of my tent to go explain this. The vault toilets were not cleaned till the last morning of our 5 night stay. No tp at the vault closest to us from 2pm to 9:45 am Thursday to Friday morning. The management at this location did not seem to want to enforce anything except the pink window tag. read more

We were really looking forward to this place. Nice large campsites and an awesome lake just footsteps away! My kids had fun playing at the lake all day. Great for SUP, kayaking, jet skis etc. However, If you are looking for a nice quiet campsite, on the weekend, run far farrrr away from this site. Another campser said it was quiet Mond-Thurs. It caters to a specific demographic and they like to blast their music all day. Unfortunately our neighbors were so loud and blasted their music until 2am...and woke up at 630am to blast their music again. There were multiple groups blasting their music but managed to turn it off by 11. Management was kind and tried to accommodate us (and another group) to find us a quiet site. Unfortunately in general, it's a loud site. Good for groups.....not for those trying to enjoy quiet time in nature. read more

Pros: Beautiful area Clean pretty lake Beach area for swimming Boat launch Bathrooms Showers Large size camp sites Plenty of parking Bear boxes Cons: Filthy vault toilets Bathrooms have no lights Showers only open in morning and evening $3 for 4 mins of water Campsites are close together Campsites aren't very level for tents Can't park your car in your campsite(there's a parking lot above) Water spigots are only for taking water(can't even wash your hands there, brush teeth ect.) This campground isn't bad but for the price you pay per night and for extra cars I would expect more. read more

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Was looking for a place that had showers. FASHODA campground is the only one in this area where one can shower at while camping. The sites are walk in sites. Toilets are vault (no flush) campsites come with a grill, picnic table, and fire pit. Not all sites are on flat ground some are on a slant. Fees are $25.00 a night with one vehicle extra cars are an additional $7.00. Pets are allowed $1.00 a night. They have a boat launching area fee of $8.00 to launch your boat. I'd give this campground 5 stars if the sites were better spaced. They have showers... read more

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The actual site is really lovely with towering conifers and a crystal clear lake. The lake is the perfect temperature for swimming and playing. And all of the sites I noticed had a few flattened areas for you to pitch a tent which I appreciate. Having showers, even quarter showers is a nice bonus as well. However, if you are the quiet, nature-appreciating camper, this is probably not the site for you. There is trash ALL over the ground- beer bottle caps, used toilet paper, cigarette butts, wrappers, etc. Campers here obviously have no regard for nature and the camp hosts don't seem to be cleaning up the trash. We've picked up an enormous amount of trash over the weekend, but there is still an almost endless amount. It is horribly depressing. Additionally, it seems to be a very loud campsite with people blasting music, shouting, and being quite loud well into the night. The lake can also be very loud with some people on motor boats so loud it's almost deafening. So if you prefer a more relaxing, clean, quiet outdoor experience, I'd look elsewhere. If you are more of the smoking, partying, loud type this would probably be a great fit. Just do everyone a favor, and clean up after yourself! read more

The only reason I didn't give five stars is the bathrooms. They weren't the worst camp bathrooms I've seen but not good either. Lots of flies, TP all over the floor, and urine on the floor as well were common in my stay. I put the blame on the group of teenage girls that was there at the same time as me, not the campground itself. Other than that, the place was great and despite the bathrooms I would go here again and hope the cleanliness was better due to fewer groups of teens around. All the sights are near the water, it was very quiet day and night, and of course - showers! Not many campgrounds in the area seem to have showers. I'm neutral on not being able to park near my campsite; I had to walk to car a few time to get something but no cars around was nice too. You can however drive to your site to load and unload your gear, just no parking at campsites. Water temp was fine for swimming. I thought it would be colder but it's ok and shallow area near the beach for the younger swimmers. Boat launch nearby but I didn't use it. Quarters for the shower and firewood are available from the campground manager/host who is next to the shower building. read more