Pineknot

Clean bathroom! :)

We spent 4 days at Pineknot and had a wonderful time. The weather was perfect, in the mid 70’s. We rode our bikes into town, walked the shops. Our site was huge, Played corn hole with the grandkids.
We will be back!!! Thanks

The location is peaceful and it is nice, near the city and plenty of shops if you need supplies, etc. The campground has a fire ring and you can cook on it, as well as a small elevated open bbq area for cooking. The campsite is large, but mostly dirt. The flush toilet is clean, but stall is extremely tiny and a number of flies seem to be hovering, especially at night with the light that is on. You cannot leave food in your tent or car; all food needs to be placed in the bear locker (the locker held a large ice chest and a small ice chest). You can get a shower at Serrano Campsite, a short distance away. I enjoyed my stay here.

Great camp host and easy access to town.
The sites and bathrooms were clean.
The spacing of the sites are a bit crowded and lack any privacy, but overall people were respectful of each others space and kept a low volume.

Park was beautiful and clean, our site was very difficult to get into with all of the 8x8 , 16 inch tall posts lining road and all the sites. There were a crazy amount of flies around site as well. Don't know if that's normal for the area or not. But certainly was annoying. Will come back, but only a certain sites good for backing a trailer into.

Imagine spring break in the woods; loud campers, dogs off leashes and NO enforcement of quiet hours. None! You can openly smoke pot and party well past midnight. If this is what you’re looking for, change my rating to 5 stars. I wish I had a spot like this when I was 21.

Unfortunately for me, I was unable to sleep because I was busy explaining to my kids why the loud man keeps dropping F-bombs every other word at 2am.

My kids were also entertained by “Pepper” the chocolate lab who kept running into our camp. I love dogs but I did see and hear Pepper barking all day and night. This isn’t the campsite’s fault but something to consider when selecting a dog friendly campsite. Pepper’s owners were very inconsiderate, and with the amount of free roam Pepper was given, I’m sure he deposited a land mine or two around neighboring campsites.

Bottom line, disregard the Covid / single family warning on the website. I saw groups of 15 plus people partying like they were at a burning man concert. If the sound of the motorcycles on the highway doesn’t keep you up, a group of drunk mountain bikers will. I hate to give a low rating because of poor behavior of guests, but if the rules aren’t enforced, it makes it difficult to entertain the idea of going back or recommending Pineknot to others.

The campground is well laid out. There are plenty of clean bathrooms. The water is good. The location, right next to Snow Summit Recreation area is terrific for my son to ride his mountain bike. The staff is very courteous. Plenty of firewood available from the camp hosts.

My husband and I stayed at campsite 18. We had a wonderful time!! My favorite part of our trip was being able to star gaze and campsite 18 was perfect for it!! It does get pitch black at night with very little campground lights so make sure to bring lanterns!! The host was very friendly and on site and check-in was really simple!! We will definitely be back!!

well kept campground right next to big bear bike park

I'm not sure if it was just the site I was in, but this campground has the oddest layout of sites. It took me a while to figure out which table was ours, etc. Also the fact that it was on a hill, meaning climbing up and down from vehicle to picnic table numerous times per day. That said, it was warmer at night than across the lake at Serrano.