Giant Gap

Friendly and informative camp hosts. Very quiet at night. Beautiful lake and surrounding hills. Bring your binoculars! Lots of birds to see. Good opportunities for hiking and paddling.

Great lake, great location, and no boats!

Wonderful camp hosts. Very attentive and considerate. The facilities were clean and the sites were maintained well. The only downside was that the camp hosts were in the adjacent camp grounds because the camp hosts on the Giant Gap side left early. This gave some campers the green light to not observe quiet hour rules. Other than a couple rowdy campers, it was a great trip for me and the girls. I come here every year!

I always have a great time at Sugar Pine. Only problem this year was the lack of beach front space. Due to many trees down along the water’s edge. There are beaches that are not accessible.

Evidently there is no 10 O'clock curfew as is the case in the California State Campgrounds. The campers next to us had their music playing, drinking and were loud until 1 o'clock am when we had an altercation to get them to stop. Won't be coming back as families with small children are not considered by the party all night crowds here.

Beautiful facility. Generally clean and well run. Gets a bit densely used on weekends. Great swimming, and the perimeter trail is a nice hike.

We were camped between two large families that were loud - both played very annoying music at an extremely high volume even after other campers asked them to turn it down. The ones above the road from our campsite even started blaring the music at 8:30 the next morning. The camp host refused to intervene. They also dragged boxes and large bags of garbage down to the dumpsters by our campsite - overfilling them so they would not lock and therefore, we had a bear going through the dumpster at 3 am. We cut our trip short because of this obnoxious behaviour.

We always have a great time at Sugar Pine. Giant Gap is a good camp ground and site 029 is decent enough. We had one small leveled out area for a tent and there was really only one other semi level area in this site for a small tent. We had partial shade most of the day and didn't require a shade tent. The nearby restrooms were kept relatively clean and really only bad when horrible, disgusting humans missed the toilet hole (it must be their first time using using a toilet of any sort). That is not the grounds keepers fault and they did the best they could to keep up with the filthy people.
Site 029 allows a decent amount of privacy and is surrounded by tree clearing so collecting fire wood was a breeze. It's a short trot to the water and the ADA trail. The only thing that would make this camp better would be more accessibility to hiking trails. We always do the trail around the lake when we stay because that seems to be the only option. It's a nice, very easy walk for all ages.

Clean and well maintained. Stayed in 2021 and 2023. The big difference was the amount of water in the lake. In 2023 the lake was full. it is very easy to get to the lake on foot but not great for walking SUPs to the lake. We drove to the boat ramp which is several miles away. The host kept a very tidy campground and there were no issues with campers as far as I could tell. The lake is at 3600 feet so the water was already in the mid 70s in June.

Great campsite. We did manage to find a small lake front area for our water toys. There are so many cut down trees blocking the campground lake front, that most people have to use the day use area. The catch with that is that you have to pay and additional fee to use it, and parking is very limited, since the entire campground is using it, in addition to day use people.