Fish Lake Campground

As a solo female camper, I felt pretty safe at this site despite being the only one at the campground for my entire stay. A camp host definitely would’ve helped but I totally understand the lack there of. The lake is absolutely gorgeous and the loop is pretty easy to walk. Site 20 is huge and definitely has enough space for everything you need, even got to use my hammock ! Mosquitos are the main downside, but I’m in their house so I just used lots of bug spray and left without any bites. No bear encounters like others have had though, overall a super cool site. No data at all until you reach the beginning of Hoopa and no water so plan accordingly

Tucked 7 miles into the National Forest in a small valley, you have to drive up a winding USFS road, which at times hug steep cliffs and beautiful sights. Once you get to the camp you find a secluded spot away from the worst of civilization. As with all spots near stagnant waters, you'll never have a moment to yourself, always being hounded by bugs, birds, and other creatures. I had the pleasure to stay in spot 17, on the far end of the campground, it was the perfect spot for me to get a peaceful night sleep. The grounds themselves are a mixture of waist high bushes, towering trees, stumps, and flat spaces for you to pitch your tent. The soil is soft and mailable, so finding a good spot is ideal for your tent not disappear during a bathroom break. There's multiple restrooms available to all campers, and a sound lake not to far from the sites. Once you get past the lily pads and the weeds on the lake shore, it is a beautiful swim. Hardly any wind, noise, or humans could reach you up here. So if you don't mind a drive to wake you up in the morning with the twists and turns not only of the USFS road, but also the State Routes leading up to it, this is the perfect campground for you.

We stayed at site 17 and it was lovely. It is very big and set back from the road. There are a couple spots for tents, but we slept in our vehicle. There aren’t any perfect trees for a hammock but if you wanted to stretch the ropes out you could make it work. It is barely down the road from the vault bathrooms.
Site 18 is right across from the bathrooms and it has an amazing view of the lake but the site itself is tiny and close to the road.
The roads getting to the campground are in mostly good condition. Six miles off the hwy and then 3 miles off that road.
There is a resident bear that lives in the park, multiple campers saw him, but he was always running away in every encounter.
The lake itself is surrounded by lily pads and not great for swimming. A flotation device, kayak, or small boat would be ideal to get to the center of the lake where it is clear. There are croppie, large mouth bass, and trout in the lake for fishing.

The campground was very remote, the location was about 2 hours away from getting phone service for emergency in any direction. It had a 30 minute drive up a small mountain road to the campsite and the first night we were the only ones there. We saw 4 bears at the camp grounds and hundreds of mosquitos swarmed the camp site. After leaving we had dozens of bites even with bug spray. We talked to a very nice park ranger that loved the place, but we just maybe would have liked to know HOW remote it is as we are traveling as two females. Be very bear aware with food as well, since it’s so remote the bears are very prominent and we believe they were playing with our bear can that we set away from camp one night because in the morning it was moved and had marks. Just leaving a review to say what I wish we had known before staying. Still a beautiful surrounding area and had fun.

There was not campground host. There were a few unruly folks camping there that were disturbing the entire campground. A host would have been very beneficial. This tainted anytime we spent at our campsite unfortunately. Time we spent on the lake and hiking was great though. We left early due to this.

Great trout fishing! Secluded campground. No cell service. One of my favorites!

It was one of the most amazing camping trips I have ever been on. It was the day after a heavy rain that we went and nobody else was at the campground. It was only me and my son the whole entire time. The bathrooms were the cleanest I have ever seen in a campground. The lake had more trout then I have ever seen anywhere else. There were eagles, hawks, osprey, otters, bears and deer. Truly one of the best experiences of my life. All for like 18 buck plus gas to get there :)

We had a great experience at Fish Lake (campground 10). We stayed for 4 days/3 nights and the site was clean and spacious. Would stay again.

The lake was pretty. Getting there is a paved cowpath that goes on forever up a steep mountain. I was terrified going up, (45 minutes to go up 9 miles) and left 6am to come back down(45minutes). The mosquitoes were hungry and I was the main course, sending in an army upon my arrival. I did not return for the second night. 2am there was a lot of banging a few sites over. Heard load "moans" assume an animal. I will not return, period!

Very over grown and hardly maintained. We got eaten alive and used an entire thing of bug spray in an hour trying to not be covered in bites … it’s very un used looking and ew why on the bathrooms .We were from Idaho so we should have known with it being so far back there… but we got there set up a tent and boom immediate black bear issue. More than 1 . not a soul in sight for 100 miles… here comes a bear… we left!!!! … nobody would hear us die ! Warning to out of staters we found a more inhabited camp sight not in the Recreation.gov sight