Fashoda

This campground has the most beautiful lake! The campground keepers are really nice and attentive. The bathrooms were kept clean. Will continue to camp here every year!

Excellent campground. Well maintained. Roads, paved trails, bathrooms, garbage cans, showers and very clean, it has it all. Hosts were great and helpful.

Campsites we’re almost all empty which is unusual. All were
Clean and ready to set up. Only bummer was the Boat dock was broken and out of the water, also blocking one side to back in boat. Dock host said Forest Service and Royal Elk were disputing who should fix it. Come on guys! It’s goi g to be a fiasco when it gets busy!

The camp host Brittany was wonderful. Checked in once or twice and wasn’t overly involved and micromanaging. The lake had a lot of water this time around so we were able to jetski. It was however pretty cold, especially at night. Other than that, we love this campground and come here yearly. It’s beautiful, simple, had running water.

Stayed at site 22 it was a little slope but a nice site. Bathrooms were good for PIT toilets. Use your bear box they do get bears! We didn’t have any this trip but I put my food away. In a past trip we had one come to our site.

The location and sites were amazing. The lake is my favorite. Unfortunately, the facilities(restrooms) were not as clean as they have been in the past. The toilet paper was not restocked in time. Still had a great time as usual, definitly coming back next year.

One of the worst camping experiences ever. We had to leave after the first night because the campgrounds nearby us all had at 5-6 tents on each campsite, and large groups of adults and kids. We asked the camp host what was going on and they said that the guests insisted they had eight adults at one campsite and eight children and that they were allowed to have as many children as they wanted as children don’t count towards the maximum guest count. I’ve never heard that you can have as many children as you want every other campgrounds is six maximum regardless of age. It was very unpleasant to be camping next to huge groups of people that were together and had no respect for the campground. The trash is overflowing and these large groups had food out all night which of course caused the bear to come by. These guests spent most of the night banging pots and pans and slamming the door to the dumpster to try to scare away the Bears that they welcomed with their left out food. They also shined flashlights all night and we’re up until 2 AM partying. It’s very uncomfortable to camp you feel like there’s no one that is managing it and can’t control guests and you don’t feel safe. We left and talked to the Ranger at the information station who told us that the Fashoda and sunset were not the best places to camp because of the type of clientele visiting from the nearby cities who are not used to camping and even at times have been known to fire shotguns to try to scare bears because they leave food out. I would never go there again, although the area is beautiful and there’s other campgrounds that are much better. If you have a good campground host that can control the guests, that would make it a better experience. It was disrespectful to the campground to the other visitors and of course to the wild life that’s been invited into this area with reckless guests that leave out food and no supervision by camp staff.

Peaceful and nice camphosts

Not a bad site we had but host was not good. We arrived at dusk got all set up had a fire ate dinner and went in our “roof top” tents and were woken up by the host at 1:30am by the host telling us we had to leave because we weren’t in ground tents. So we had to pack everything up and leave back to placerville.
I booked this site months ago and it does not state anywhere that you can’t use rooftop tents. Very annoying.

Fashoda may be the best campground I've stayed at! From the well shaded campground to the short 1 minute walk from campsite to Union lake with beach access, this place ticks many if not all the boxes.

The vault tiolets and faucets are plentiful and well located. The pay showers are only a 2 minute walk. Cost is $3 for 3 minutes and  the machine will only accept quarters.

The camp host are kind and very attentive and do a magnificent job of keeping the facility clean. They are also on top of noise issues, asking me if their were any noise issues from other campers at night and to let them know if there was.

Two bonuses at Fashoda:
1. The beach access which offers great swimming and ability to launch our kayaks, canoe and paddle boards. The beach is located in a Cove so well protected from the wind and motor boats.
2. Cell reception is about 3 bars (on at&t and verizon), more than good enough to YouTube and work.

My review covers two different stays. We camped at Fashoda June 20 and August 21. Both stays were for 3-4 nights. We stayed at campsites 9, 13 & 14. All sites were SPACIOUS but not very flat. Chances are your tent will be on a slope!

Summary:
This year was our first time staying at Fashoda. We chose Fashoda for its beach access for our boats and because our usual campground, Icehouse was still closed down for renovations from last year's fires. We also considered Sunset campground but decided against because it didn't have beach access.