I went tent camping here for five nights the week before and partway into Memorial Day weekend with a family who'd been coming for years, though it'd been several years since they'd visited. We learned that new management/owner took over a few years ago, and it seems to be an unfortunate change based on what they said (it was my first -- and last -- time there).
The grounds are fine. The grass is green despite being in the middle of the desert. The little beach along an inlet of sorts along the Colorado River was nice, though got super packed by the holiday weekend. The upkeep of the bathroom facilities, which is a pretty darn important part of camping in my mind, was pathetic. In the five nights we were there, the bathrooms were actually cleaned once (after we alerted staff many times that they needed attention). I wasn't thrilled with the bathrooms in general upon arrival, but they were tolerable (and yes, the toilets are freakishly high off the ground, as another review said). It only got worse going into the holiday weekend.
Of course you expect a campground to be busy over a three-day weekend. The camp management knew this. In fact, they made us move our campsite TWICE, two days in a row, because they needed to mark fire lanes. There was nothing marked when we arrived, and it's a first-come, first-served sort of pick-your-spot place. No one ever came over to tell us, they just lazily pointed from inside the store in the general direction we weren't supposed to be, apparently. So they knew it was going to get crowded.
But clearly this place is about quantity, not quality. Because by Fri/Sat, it was packed to the brim. Tent-on-tent-on-tent. We were paying for several cars/tents at our site, $25 per night per car. So they were making thousands upon thousands of dollars from all those packed in tents all weekend. But they clearly were understaffed -- even though they knew, and told us, how busy it was going to be. The bathrooms got worse and worse. One of the three sinks in the ladies room remained clogged for three days. The soap was out for about 12 hours and only got replaced after we asked. The paper towels were out most of a day, which I didn't even care that much but it was principle at this point. I asked them to replace the paper towels three times in an eight-hour period, which then they finally were.
The worst were the showers. I tried very hard to not touch anything I didn't have to while in there. And by the last night, they were disgusting and clearly had not been touched by cleaning staff. There was a bloody tampon on the floor of the women's shower, and someone defecated on the floor of one of the men's room showers. I get that the staff cannot control what disgusting things people do in the bathrooms, but I also believe people will be more respectful of a place if they are treated with respect and the people working there care about the cleanliness of the facilities. We were out of there fast Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend, already wishing we'd left the day before. I can only imagine it got worse into Sunday/Monday. The people with permanent RV spots seemed less bothered, since they don't have to use the bathrooms, but we saw quite a few RV spots up for sale as well. I would not recommend tent camping here, or at least not over a busy weekend. And be prepared to have to bug staff repeatedly for basic things that should be looked in on periodically without asking. I'm not sure they would have ever replaced anything had we not asked them (politely) multiple times. Some staff were more helpful than others, including the guy doing most of the actual cleaning, but he was clearly overworked because they were understaffed. read more