Fairview Campground

This campsite is absolutely gorgeous, especially if you snag campsite 9, you are sitting on the river and snug in the valley of mountains. Its a shame that its 30 minutes away from Kernville and you have to drive up a WINDY road to get in or out of there.

The camp host is very kind and it is a beautiful stay.

Campground is very nice, the tent sites have lots of room and separation from each other, but there is not much shade. Vault toilets are clean, water spigots are all around. The river is spectacular. Only negatives are the wind ( we were there mid April, tents need extra guy ropes) and the training fighter jets that fly at low altitude over the campground from 9am to 5pm weekdays, unbelievably loud! We got used to it but it freaked out the dog.

The camp hosts were friendly and helpful. There is no water at the site so bring extra.

The location was great; everyone was friendly and helpful. We got some really good pictures of the view and Sundown. Kids did some fishing and enjoyed their time on the swing at the Bridge. However, we had a really bad experience with the bees. They were crazy as soon as we started cooking, they came and were relentless, we couldn't eat without getting attacked by bees. We got rid of our trash asap and didn't have any around but 2 of us adults still got stung, I myself started having an allergic reaction since I had not been stung since childhood and the local store had run out of Benadryl. My kids had to drive down further to get me some. Apparently, many others in the area were having the same issue. Needless to say, we packed up early morning and left asap.

Such a beautiful campground. Spots are roomy and not on top of each other. Bought firewood at the general store just right up the road.

Couldn't have asked for a better labor day getaway. For site 10, the proximity to the river was just several yards away and we had a blast floating down the river. One tip that I glanced over from earlier reviews that I felt was without question the most important tipi of all was getting a canopy with bug screen walls. If it weren't for this, I'm not sure how we would have dealt with the constant barrage of wasps drawn to our cooking. I've seen another family without screens and I think they laid out food a few feet away to draw them away from their canopy. Not really sure how effective that was. Also I found the screens helpful during the evening when river flies were drawn to our lanterns. Also, it can get windy especially at night so having tents that you can secure to surrounding rocks or the ground would be ideal. We'll definitely come back again.

Perfectly fine

Really liked the location and the staff and the bathhouse was a plus

The campground was nice not crowded at all. Only issue was when we went to check in there’s somebody in our space that we have reserved. I said something with the camp host he said there was nothing he could do. Also, the Camp host did not come around to check reservations while we were there.

The camp host, Mauricio, is completely inept, has a terrible attitude and clearly had not done his job since at least 8/17 which was the last date on most of the tags in the campground. As a result, when we arrived at about 3pm on 8/27 there were 5 tents in our spot and a car parked so we couldn't pull in. I had to track down the camp host who was sleeping on the job and needed to change from civilian clothes into his work wear before he came over. When I questioned why the tag on our site had not been updated since Aug 17th and didn't have our name on it, he became combative and told us not to tell him how to do his job. He also said he had been off the day before and that is why the tags weren't updated. He said if we wanted to complain we needed to call his boss. One of our friends who was staying in a spot close by walked to McNally's in order to call the Forest Service and try to track down who we needed to talk to. She finally connected with the correct people who came by about an hour later and had words with him and stayed until the campers came back, packed up and left. We did not get into our spot until about 6:30pm He is completely incompetent and should be fired!!