Giant Gap

My family has been coming here for the last 25 years. Love this place. But this last trip was a nightmare. We always get campsite 9 and 8. They are so close together that it should be one campsite. I don’t mind paying for the two camps. This year #8 was not reservable. I drove up two days before to see if I could pay the camp host. She said no, but if no one was there on Tuesday when we arrive we could pay for it and park there. Got there on Tuesday and no one was in
Camp #8. I went and found the camp host and she was very rude and said that has to be reserved online. I said no I tried and it is X out. She said only the camp host could???? So then my other family members came and we all set up in # 9, but were not happy. Then another camp host came by. I asked him why we can’t pay for number 8. He said it is used when they overbook. I said, so you are saying I am willing to pay full price, but if someone else comes in later and doesn’t have a reservation you will give it to them???? He said if you are want to pay for it I see your point. So I went up to the paid box and paid and put the tag on my car and on campsite 8. So the next day we were down at the lake and we come back there was very nasty note to remove our belongings from campsite 8, and my tag was removed from the little sign out front. I walked over to the camp host and said, I paid for this and I don’t see any reason in the middle of my vacation to say we have to be removed from Camp 8. She said rules are rules. I said I paid my money, and you really know how to spoil a yearly family vacation that we have come up here for years. I told her another camp host told us we could pay. She yelled something to me and slammed her trailer door. Mind you we only had two tents up not even a trailer and were very quite people. After that experience we left early the next morning even though we had paid for two more days. Very disappointing, And there were other empty campsites.

Giant Gap at Sugar Pine Reservoir is beautiful, quiet, and fairly easy to park a small boat in the site. The only thing that was hard was learning how to navigate the website, to make sure your reservation is confirmed, also, to get a reservation 5 days out or earlier. We had to switch campsites after the 1st night.... even though I emailed whoever I could from the park dept or nat’l park system.
So- the lesson learned is that Giant Gap was beautiful, clean and fairly quiet.....next time I will plan more in advance so I can get the same site for more than 1 day. My sweetie and I are in our 60’s so making camp, and breaking it down TWICE, was super hard

Great location. Nice site

The first night the occupants of the site next to us started their generator at 10:00 pm and continued use through 4 am. The following night they were compliant with the rules. One of the vault toilets did not have working fans and made use of the toilets nearly impossible.

very good staff, clean taking care of sites and visitors, thank you Anna and team.

Campsites were spaced out. Gorgeous drive to the campground. Overall a pretty nice place. 4 stars because a) vault toilets were a bit dirty, and b) the host did not have any firewood available.

It's a nice campground. The lake is beautiful and there is a trail that goes around the lake. My one complaint is the tent pad was way to close to the fire ring. I got a small hole in my tent from a spark from the fire I made.

We had a great time, the camp ground is so pretty and well maintained.

Love this campground the water is clean the trail around the lake is a great hike. The camp host is very helpful and keeps the grounds clean. The toilets could be emptied more but over all I recommend this beautiful campground

Facilities are always clean and Camp monitor are courteous and good at keeping extra noisy campers somewhat quiet. Great walking trail all around the reservoir, clean Clearwater, not very good for fishing though. Excellent spot for day camping and playing in the water.