Carlton

What a fantastic find. Quiet, clean, relaxing. The water was perfect and the water access from site 16 is fantastic Beautiful views, checkin and out was no problem at all. Highly recommend and we will be back!

I stayed in spot 17 and it’s beautiful there. Plenty of shade and easy access to the river. My only “complaint” is that the fire ring is in pretty bad shape and IMO not in the most ideal spot.
Other than that the site was very relaxing and I’ll reserve it again in the future.

Beautiful campground and very peaceful on a Sunday night. I'd highly recommend site 17 or 18, both feel more private and have direct river access and shade. Make sure you take screenshots of your reservations before losing cell service, unfortunately day use visitors were in my site when I arrived and I needed to prove my reservation.

Gotta pick the right camp site for a good time. Too close to the main road, where motorcycles are constant. Very few sites have shade.

All we could hear was highway noise and dogs barking and fighting ALL NIGHT LONG. Any minute of peace we thought we had to fall back asleep, nope, dogs would start barking. Restrooms were a nightmare. You have random people walking through your campsite to get to the river. The one nice thing was the wild blackberries

Camp was easy to get into. Our spot, #12, was great!! Near the bathrooms, which were clean and maintained daily. Perfect access to the water from camp. 10 out of 10 ill stay here again on my way through.

Been coming to this campsite for years and have a great time every year. Love that most sites have their own river access and the campground is well maintained, bathrooms are always clean and have never had a problem with other campers. Wish the little outpost shop/cafe was still open for grabbing anything you forgot or run out of, but downieville is only 20 minutes up the road if you really need something

Site was great! Be prepared for the dust to go everywhere if you got a dog tagging along

This is a wonderful campground. It is disappointing that the local outpost/store/bar/cafe (Indian Valley Outpost" was closed. No ice from them, you need to travel to Grass Valley, or Camptonville/Downieville. I sure hope someone gets an interest and buys that location to reopen for campers to enjoy. We really missed it.

They did have the water delivery problem resolved, so that was great. I have been coming to Carlton for the past 40 years, always a wonderful family time. The river was high this year, so you could float without bumping your rear much.

We did not have any "Bear" visitors this year, so that was great also.

I’ve camped here for over 48 years even though there has been lots of changes I still love to camp here it’s absolutely beautiful . Lots of memory’s here . Thank you