Almanor

Camp Host was so helpful! He went well beyond normal service to make sure everyone was a Happy Camper! Site and Lake were so beautiful and bike trail that runs right through the camp was fantastic!

The lake, the nearby, free, public boat launch, and the Plumas Pines marina, restaurant and resort are the big attractions of the Lake Almanor Campground. Although the huge 2021 Dixie fire burned a lot of the forest nearby, the Almanor South campground, the Plumas Pines resort and the city of Chester were not directly affected. We had a great time and rented jet ski's at the marina which also rents ski boats, pontoon boats, kayaks etc. The camp host was very friendly and helpful.

Plumas pines has everything

Lake Resort Dinner

Golfing near by at Almanor West

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.