&tldr; For campground, pick sites 22-49; AVOID sites 1-22…read more
We recently booked 2 nights in Site 8, not knowing any better. Unlike most parks, signs here direct you to go straight to your site if you already have a reservation. There's no gate, nor place to check-in; the "office" is at the far end of the road past both campgrounds.
Speaking of which: the road in has signs directing you to Campground A or Campground B; but those names aren't used in the reservation system. It turns out that Campground A is Sites 1-22, and Campground B is sites 22-49; we found out later that A is the "old" campground and B is the "new". Campground A is a nightmare. Our first problem was with the dump station, which is on the side of a narrow one-way road; problem being that it's just a tube sticking out of the ground ON THE PASSENGER'S SIDE of the road. Our rig, like most out there, has the dump port on the DRIVER'S side; not sure WHAT the designers were thinking here. And the dump "station" has no water to available for rinsing/flushing either.
After pulling into Site 8, we made the mistake of hooking up our filter+ hose to the spigot there and filling our fresh water tank, without CHECKING the water quality first. It wasn't until we went to fill our water bottles from the spigot afterwards that we realized the water coming out of it rotated through shades of white, tan, and brown - no matter how long you let the water run to try to "flush" the line first. Thinking it might just be our faucet, we tried the one in Site 7 too - with the same result. Attached photo is of the "cleanest" water we could get from the spigot after running it through our Camcorder water filter.
The water coming out of the bathroom faucets seemed cleaner, but the stains on the porcelain implied that there were still contaminants in the water that were just hard to see.
The showers were small stalls with shower curtains; no private changing area. Water was hot, with good water pressure though.
The 30 Amp outlet at the site was also well abused - and looked to be of questionable safety.
The next morning, we went to Campground B to see if things were better there. Much. We found an unoccupied site, and tested the water spigot: nice clean water. 30 Amp outlet was intact. Two shower stalls in the bathhouse: one with a private changing area, and one large enough to change in. The dump station on the way out of Campground B is standard / nice: dump hole on driver's side, with a threaded spigot (and cutoff hose available) for rinsing/flushing. We went to the office and switched to Site 30, no questions asked (the lady in the office was really nice).
Campground B is near the water, and really quite pleasant. The only "ding" is that the washer and dryer in the bathhouse were both tagged"out of order".
(Unfortunately, our Camco water filter was so badly fouled by the water in Campground A - continued to intermittently belch brown colored water, despite repeated flushing - that we had to replace it.)
