Manzanita Lake

Loved the campground and the park! Roads were well maintained, plenty of bathrooms and garbage cans (and garbage was picked up daily), beautiful lake with easy to access trail around it, good camp store with a small grill.

Our only challenge was with the campsitess. While technically long enough to accommodate our truck and 25' travel trailer, most of the larger sites were pull thrus with pretty tight bends, and a lot of them had obstacles very close to the parking area (boulders, stumps, trees with low branches, etc) that made it very difficult to situate a trailer or motor home. Many are also very unlevel.

A lovely campground in a fascinating and beautiful park. Many sites and not too far apart from each other, but somehow it was still quiet. People seemed to follow the generator hours faithfully when we were there. Restrooms were clean. Laundry at the camp store is limited to one washer and dryer, so we drove to Old Station instead. Laundry there was pricey, but it was clean and the machines worked well. We enjoyed the drive down to the southwestern visitor center, and Cinder Cone was a slog, but well worth the effort!

This campground is near the north entrance to the park and has a small general store, showers, laundry facility. There's also a small museum and park store near the entrance. Only thing lacking was warm water for handwashing & dish washing...brrrrrrr...at the bathroom facilities.

Beautiful large campground sites.
Restrooms were only marginally maintained.
Website said no open burning, so we brought a contained propane campfire, but everyone was open burning, which was puzzling.

The weather was beautiful, just a little windy the first day. The lake was beautiful. Went on a very short ranger walk with a beginner’s birding group. It’s such a nice time of year, going in September.

Good

I would return to Lassen NP and the Manzanita campgrounds. Thank you for a wonderful trip!

Would be nice to see rangers patrolling CG again to remind those mega RV types about generator hours.

Perfect. Look forward to going back.

Our family has been camping at Manzanita Lake for over 30 years. This year was soooo disappointing. The park itself remains beautiful, but the caliber of visitors has changed. Dog droppings not being picked up, generators disturbing the peace, vehicle headlights at midnight being used to set up a tent while waking the neighbor (me) into whose tent they also shine. Regarding the facilities, the new food counter in the camp store, while popular, imparts an unsavory odor into the rest of the store. Gone are the kitschy fun souvenirs. Outside the campground, going north on 89, it was incredibly sad to see the forest “thinned”, replaced with giant piles of logs. As if the fires hadn’t taken enough trees already.