Glory Hole Recreation Area

Overall a nice campground at Big Oak Campground, Glory Hole, New Melones Lake. the lake as usual was lots of fun even with the very low water level, but nothing can be done to change that in the short term.

Nice and clean. Nice park rangers. Clean bathrooms, always stocked with tp.
No annoying bugs that I've noticed.
Stayed at this site twice this month and will again towards the end of summer. Haven't been to the actual lake yet tho(even tho it's right there). Maybe next time.
Bring your own handsoap.
Shower takes quarters.

This is a beautiful campsite in a great area, but unfortunately very poorly regulated. When we arrived our campsite was littered with trash and we had to spend time cleaning up and picking plastic out of the fire ring. Additionally, although the site had listed quiet hours, there was no one there to enforce said quiet hours meaning that people were playing music and shouting until 3 am. The bathrooms were decently well maintained, there is a ton of wildlife at the site, and the scenery is beautiful, but overall the lack of management was disappointing. If you choose to go definitely bring extra trash bags and earplugs.

Does not have shower

I tried several times to reach out to the site with questions and could never get in touch with anyone, I left several messages. I tried calling to rent a boat and no one would answer. We missed the first night of our reservation because we were getting a late start and tried calling to see what time they closed the gate and again couldn’t get in touch with anyone so we didn’t go for fear of being locked out. When we got there a day late there is no one at the entry to answer questions, no directions on how to find your campsite or access any of the amenities, you are completely on your own. When we got to the campsite, it was all on a hill and there was no flat place to set up the tent so we had to sleep at an incline. Finally the lake was so low so there was no way to access it without a boat which had no reservations available because we could not call ahead and get anyone to answer. It was over a hundred degrees every day with no relief. We finally had to drive 45 minutes to another location every day to go swim in a different lake and enjoy the outdoors and return to our campsite after 7:00 when it finally started to cool down. The other half of our party left early because they were miserable. Overall the trip sucked.

Clean bathrooms, nice sites.

Besides the power outage on a 100 degree weather weekend, which meant toilets and showers were closed, it was still a very bad experience. There was also no camp hosts or rangers.

That meant bad behavior by folks playing loud music, not just music, loud music till midnight. Neighbors were also talking loudly with lots of profanity all night.

We planned to stay the weekend, but after one night of little sleep we left early. I'm sure it I hope not everybody will be so disrespectful, but with no camp host or ranger... Good luck...

Restrooms and showers were locked and had to use ports potties. Quiet hours were not enforced, generators and parties kept us from sleeping.

Looks great for boating but that's about it. Nothing else there and hard for the kids to swim or really do anything. That being said I did go when it was 108 degrees and use a walk to camp site.

Other than one night where group camping in 4 spots let their kids run right thru your camp it was good. Much better facilities than New Hogan lake. The bathroom when open was spotless for a campground.