Lake Francis Resort

We have now attended the Northern California Homebrew festival at Lake Francis 2 years in a row and really like the location and facilities and will be returning every year!

What a pretty hidden gem! Went for 3 days, first time camping. The camping grounds were every clean, bathrooms were nice, cleaned daily! The staff was so nice, yummy ice cream, clean pool. Activities for the kids to do around! We’ll be back, it’s a great place!

Terrible place. We decided to rent a cabin for camping instead of pitching a tent because we have a toddler (1.5 yo) and it’s hot, and this place advertised having “AC”. The cabins are what you’d expect, no surprise there: basic, dirty, yucky. But the AC did not work appropriately, the inside of the cabin was an inferno of heat 75% of the day (hotter than the 107*F outside), there’s enormous gaps all over the walls inside the cabinets where outside air comes in, and the malfunctioning and leaking swamp cooler they call “AC” is false advertising. For $189 + tax per night, this place is not worth it and I would not come back. Maybe I’d consider a bare cabin in the fall/winter, but after this experience I doubt I’d want to be back. The AC is not an AC, and the cabin is not prepared to hold air in, nor run any cooling appliance, the breaker kept blowing and the fridge fuse burnt so we were left without a fridge. Most of the personnel at the front desk were rude and not accommodating, all they could do it wait ‘til closing time to close the door in your face 5 minutes early. There was one lady who checked us in who was nice, never knew her name. The handymen were also nice and tried to change our AC to a portable unit, but it just wasn’t enough. It’s super expensive and the lake is brown, not clear, full of goose poop, frankly very risky disease-wise. We actually ended up leaving a day early so even paid for an extra night we didn’t use, we were having such a bad time. The toddler was miserable, no one slept, the pool is FULL of noisy rude people, the “arcade” was unbearably hot, just an all over very bad experience. I can’t believe we paid almost $1000 for a torture of an experience, definitely not what we thought we were paying for. No one offered to reimburse us for the malfunctioning appliances, no one cared about anything. Very sad.

Our family had a great time camping at Lake Francis! The campground is up high, while the resort and lake are low. So there are some hills. But there are nice trails to get around and things are overall close together. We had a campsite and a cabin. The cabins are adorable and have a lot of amenities. The lake is perfect for swimming,fishing and paddle boarding.

Check-in was simple and the RV park is laid out well. It was extremely hot during our stay, so having to load into the car and drive 2 minutes to the lake or pool wasn’t as convenient as we would have liked. Had ice cream each night and it was extremely good. The last night they had music playing in the courtyard of the general store area and the kids had a blast. They even brought out a huge cooler full of water balloons and the chaos ensued. It was a wonderful finishing touch on our short getaway.