Shirttail Creek

We had a very unfortunate experience at this campsite. The hosts were rude and unprofessional, which made our stay uncomfortable. One of the hosts yelled at our kids for simply playing in an empty area of the campground that was unoccupied, and her approach felt more threatening than welcoming.
When we arrived, we weren’t given a proper briefing about the campground rules, but the host was quick to threaten us with fines instead. The campsite was overrun with mosquitoes, flies, and yellow jackets; one of our kids was stung by a bee twice.
Additionally, the bathrooms were poorly maintained. Despite the host being present at least once a day, there was no fresh toilet paper, and the unpleasant smell lingered around our campsite.
Overall, our experience was heavily impacted by the hosts’ behavior, and we won’t be returning to this campground.

Lots of bees, bring mesh food covers. Hosts were great. Best to go through Foresthill to siie, Iowa Hill Road is scenic but best maneuvered with a motorcycle or a 4 wheel drive Jeep

It was great! A lot of space and very nice campground! The lake was nice and clear! Beautiful view!

Good campground

Great!

Very nice and hosts were very helpful

Despite being a double site, please note that there is only ONE bear locker available. This severely limited us on our ability to properly secure our food(Site 25 which is a triple site has 2 bear lockers).

I booked this site along with site # 20 and they make a fantastic large group site! Site #22 has a nice large gathering area but it is in full sun for most of the day so we used this area for the campfire in the evenings and spent the days in site #20 which has a nice amount of shade throughout the day.
If you choose to book this site without booking # 20 I would warn that you will feel close to the other group.
We were able to fit a 32' trailer, Truck and a large SUV on the parking strip, we could have fit an additional vehicle if we needed to as well. Since this site is a pull thru it was very easy to get in and out of. The site wasn't too unlevel, we needed to bring the passenger side of the trailer up about 3 inches to level it on the parking area.
We spent a lot of time down by the lake but due to the location of the site we decided it was best to drive to the lake parking lot to bring our things down to the shore area, we then returned the vehicles to the campsite (the parking lot requires an additional fee) and walked back down. Waking down to the shore while carrying everything would have been difficult, the walk back up was at a definite incline so not an enjoyable walk when carrying anything.
There are 2 large picnic tables but they are placed in an L formation too close to the fire pit in my opinion. no one wants to sit on an uncomfortable bench as opposed to a comfy camp chair. due to the location about 1/2 of the area around the fire pit was difficult to place chairs around unless you wanted to be very close to the fire.

Despite being a double site, please note that there is only ONE bear locker available. This severely limited us on our ability to properly secure our food (Site 25 which is a triple site has 2 bear lockers).

I booked this site along with site # 22 and they make a fantastic large group site! Site #22 has a nice large gathering area but it is in full sun for most of the day so we used that area for the campfire in the evenings and spent the days in site #20 which has a nice amount of shade throughout the day but not the best campfire space.
If you choose to book this site without booking # 20 I would warn that you will feel close to the other group.
We were able to fit a 24' 5th wheel, Truck and 2 cars on the parking strip. the parking area is unlevel front to back sloping down towards the rear.

We spent a lot of time down by the lake but due to the location of the site we decided it was best to drive to the lake parking lot to bring our things down to the shore area, we then returned the vehicles to the campsite (the parking lot requires an additional fee) and walked back down. Waking down to the shore while carrying everything would have been difficult, the walk back up was at a definite incline so not an enjoyable walk when carrying anything.

There is ZERO cell service here, no matter which carrier you have. Ice is a 30 minute drive back into town. There is a lot of easy to scavenge firewood to be found around the area.

Lovely lake and nice flat sites avaiable.

We had a great time! I recommend getting one of the double sites if you have more than one tent. We had a double and looking at the singles, they were tiny so I was glad we did as we had 3 tents and would not have fit. We went fishing and all 4 of us caught trout from shore using power bait and lures. There is bears here! Make sure you put your cooler in the bear box or your car. A bear did get into our cooler and eat a bunch of our food. It was scary watching him from a peek hole in my tent eat all my burgers! But wow what a story to tell. Beautiful campsite and lake though. Oh and you’re allowed to cut all the dry wood you want for fire wood. We brought an axe and paid for no fire wood.