Arroyo Seco

It's a good place to go camping with the family and has all the amenities. A beautiful place

Trash disposal not doing overall, dumpsters are all filled up, rotten smell,
Restroom not clean,

Half of the bathrooms were out of order, which was not ideal. Some campsites were pretty much on top of others and noisy.

We love the nature around the camp, the species lot, the day use site.
We liked less the bathrooms, that I don't think were cleaned even once during our 2 nights stay, the lines to the bathrooms and showers were very very long, the showers were very old and need some renovation, the non working taps all over the camp. We were also asked to pay for parking at the day use area, which never happened to us in other campsites. The day use area was packed from 8 am.

camped here during 4th of july weekend with a family of 2 small children and 1 dog.

good amenities: coin-op showers, flushing toiles, port-a-potties, sinks outside the bathroom with hot and cold water, potable water.

within walking distance of arroyo seco river, which is a popular day-use area. it filled up first thing in the morning after opening on sunday though.

when i was here, one of the two restroom buildings was out of service and was replaced with port-a-potties. we had to use the other restroom building behind the campground host, which meant only 2 showers were available to campers. showers accept 6 quarters (which is 5 minutes) to start and then 1 additional quarter (which is 1 minute per quarter) to continue.

would have liked more privacy and campsites to be more spaced out or dispersed. campsites are so close together in that i can hear conversations from neighboring campers when in my tent. there was a campground host present to sell firewood, collect parking fees, exchange quarters for showers. they did not enforce the quiet hours.

Friday night had several groups up past midnight. I think one campsite had a karaoke party. Singing was okay, not great. Next campsite over used portable work light as a flashlight, definitely overkill for finding your way between the tent and campfire.

Facility itself was good. No matter what the Ice Box says, the camp host has NO ICE. Their firewood supply ran out while we were there.

Nice clean campgrounds, very spacious and flat spots for tents. The bathrooms were nice and clean, and the showers are great and cheap. Bring your quarters. The swimming hole is very nice, although you must pay to park down there, you can walk down. We love coming here.

This park has many features that make it worth driving to. My one bad experience was lack of curfew courtesy by a bunch of young women chattering till 1:30 in the morning.

The atmosphere in the campground was more of a party scene than folks appreciating nature. Amplified music started up late, around 8pm and continued on into the night, left unchecked by the nearby camp host. The folks managing the campground sped by regularly despite small kids on scooters and bikes, driving way too fast for a small campground loop and making it hard to relax and enjoy.

I have camped here for 36 years. It's a family favorite. The convenience of the clean bathrooms and working showers is great. Personally our family likes to hike up river to day camp. Bringing plenty of water and food to last the hike and day by the water. This year it is cleaner than I have seen it in a while. Perhaps because it has been closed for so long. The only negative is we camped right by behind the bathrooms and a few times a day it smelt ripe af. Like your afraid the breath through your mouth like you might taste it. Never had the problem before. We actually skipped dinner because of it.