Glory Hole Recreation Area

Close to Angels Camp, Sonora and Murphys. Camping areas and facilities are super clean.

Beautiful views. Clean bathrooms, hot showers 🚿. Rangers and Sheriff patrolled the area for security.

Beautiful, peaceful, scenic, safe, quiet
But its very hard to use the website.

Visited late October as the weather was turning to Winter. Temps were very comfortable. I encountered a little rain, but not much. I had the entire campground to myself - very empty. Stayed at site 57, nice and level for my Sprinter van. Good size campsite with a table and campfire ring. I made a fire every night with ample wood found in the area. The lake looks fun and I expect to return in early May for paddle boarding.

Park Rangers were friendly and helpful. Can’t wait to come back again!

The restroom was nice and clean, but the light at night did not work. Make sure to take a lantern! The campsite was nice, but I hate it when previous campers do no pick up all their "little trash" and numerous cigarette butts. One campsite looked like someone emptied their ash tray! Really! The lake is low, so expect to hike down to the water. We didn't bring our boat, but there was still a launch open. Hopefully the lake will fill up some with the rain we're getting this weekend. We enjoyed a full moon and warm temperatures for October. Bring binoculars to enjoy the wildlife. Lots of birds and deer.

Loved the campsite. It's quite the drive to get into the actual campground. We stayed in campsite 55 and had a gorgeous view of the water. Wish there was more shade. Bathrooms seemed to have been clean but noticed the trash wasn't emptied out often. One of the sinks in the bathroom wasn't work and one of the stalls wasn't working, so it was a 1 person bathroom.

Not crowded, clean, some paved pull-through sites. Rest rooms were clean but stalls in need of repair. Would go back.

Park rangers need to be reasonable and consistent in enforcing the rules. My handicapped daughter was camping near us. Her sight was quite far from the toilet and the one directly across from the toilet was available. I asked one ranger if it was OK to move. He told me yes. The next day a different ranger told us she had to move or call rec.gov to make a change in sites. We called rec.gov and was told we needed to talk to the range. The park had few visitors at the time and there were many spaces available. My daughter was only going to be there for 2 days and would be leaving the day after the ranger told her she needed to move. As it turned out she did not and was not asked to leave.

During the off season, it would be very helpful, especially to retirees to be able to stay on a FCFS basis. Seniors are more flexible than the working campers and when campgrounds are not busy, some flexibility would be very helpful.

Still, all in all ,a very enjoyable stay and a very well maintained campground.

Love this camp group- the sites are spacious and the campground wasn’t very full this time of year.