Almanor

Site was great. Plenty of space for trailers, tents, Rv, boats etc. The only downsides are:
it's right on the highway and there is a recreation permit road that makes a loop that goes right between the campsite and everyone can use bathrooms. That road goes next to the site and people who have no proper etiquette when it comes to outdoors,dusted us out a couple times. Others slowed down as to not kick up a bunch of dirt. Other than that, it was great. Nice big fire pit, lots of picnic tables bolted to the ground. Tons of trash cans that got checked daily. We will probably stay here again when they aren't working on every road around the lake

This was our first time to Lake Almanor and loved the experience. The campsite was quiet, clean, and well-kept. The sites were far enough in spacing that although you could see other campers, you could still feel as if you were in the wilderness; in addition, it was quiet enough that wildlife and birds came around. Would definitely choose this location again.

We had a wonderful week at Lake Almanor. The best part was our camp host, Steve! He went above and beyond to make our stay enjoyable. Starting with our arrival and his welcoming greeting, to showing us to our campsite, making sure everything was satisfactory, to giving fantastic recommendations on things to do and see in the area-Steve is definitely the best camp host we have ever encountered!! The weather was perfect in September and the lake and boat launch are close by. The Chester area has many great restaurants but the Kronenkrik Koffehaus is the best Danish bakery around. Although there are no hookups in the South Loop, where we stayed, there is water available close to the campsites and a dump station nearby. Now for the negative part: most of the flush toilets in the campground are broken and the US Forest Service doesn’t seem to care. It has been reported multiple times but nothing has been done, it was an inconvenience for us, but we had options with our motorhome; our tent camping neighbors weren’t so lucky-it was a long hike (or drive) to the closest porta potty or vault toilet. Very sad that the Forest Service can’t do their job and get these repaired.

Almanor South is very well kept by the Camp Host. He was very polite and helpful during our time.
If someone was to ask me what could be improved, I would respond with the reservation system is not easy to understand as not all the sites are listed. Almanor North is a mystery reservation or lack of reservation system. It's there physically, there are sites and bathrooms and stuff but no mention of it on the website. Not sure what it happening here, but it sure would be nice to know the status is. Open, Closed, reservation sites, first come first served sites, map. I did call the office in Chester but the man on the phone really didn't know what's going on. Call the reservations.gov....clueless.

The Almanor South is large and well maintained. The bathrooms and grounds are spotless The campground is in close proximity to the bike trail and the lake. Hike Brokeoff instead of Lassen. Much more diverse and considered more challenging.

Everything was good, needs more maintenance men’s bathrooms were not open was ok they were able to use women’s but still, outlets did not work in bathroom. No bear food lockers keep your food in your car, never out we did get a bear visit us at our site and got into our food took a lot of it. Overall was a good experience a lot of space on sites far from others sites. BEAR DOES COME VISIT PEOPLES SITES.

When work was planned in the campground, the women at the NF office for the campground kept us quite up-to-date with what was going on.
Our site was ready when we arrived and marked with our reservation. They went ABOVE & BEYOND!!

The lake is beautiful and the facilities pretty decent but we had an issue with the park service handling the reservation. They are doing renovations and were closing campgrounds in order to replace bathrooms. The problem was, the rangers failed to notify us (they acknowledged that) so we were put in the position of having to find a temporary space then move for the last two days. Most of the bathrooms were locked and campers had to use port-a-potties or hike to a vault toilet. I realize this was an exception and next summer will be different but not impressed with the way the reservations were handled.

Our campsite was lovely. It was very easy to find and had running drinking water. We parked 2 vehicles easily and the campsite was very clean.

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