East Meadow Campground

Spacious double site, great for 2 families. Lake access was amazing. Clean bathrooms a plus. We'll be back.

The area is wonderful, we kayaked and swam and managed to have a good time with friends we camped with. I would give it a 5 star for the area beauty, but the campground was not well taken care of. Some empty sites were not cleaned up (though ours was okay.) Bathroom had toilet paper, but was not cleaned daily. But the biggest complaints, all the dumpsters in the campground were overflowing the day we arrived (a Sunday) until we left (a Wednesday) and the overflow was just growing. Campers are encouraged to use the bear-proof storage lockers as bears frequent the area, yet they leave the dumpsters overflowing for days on end! Second big complaint, they closed the RV dump. It was open when we arrived, closed when we needed it, and we had a heck of a time finding a RV dump as Cabela's was closed also. These are important issues to campers and it would seem to avoid illegal dumping and garbage strewn about, they should be important issues to those that are in charge of maintaining public campgrounds.

A pretty campground on the reservoir. Very friendly host. Bathrooms are clean and there's water available for most campsites. The road in from 89 is quite narrow, so as first time trailer owners it was a little hair raising. It appears very badly maintained for the first 1/4 mile, but improves thereafter. The signage is not great - we overshot the East Meadow turnoff the first time and had to turn around. There is an RV dump station, which wasn't clear from the description of the campsite, if you continue down the road past the East Meadow turnoff for a few hundred yards.

The highlight of our visit was hiking the section of the Pacific Crest Trail that passes nearly through the campground and is very beautiful, but also quite lacking in signage, and so hard to find. If you are looking for the section which heads north from the area, go out to the turn off to East Meadow from the road in, turn right as though you're driving back out, and the trail crosses the road a few hundred feet up. That's one of the few places it's marked, both on a tree with a sign and with a spray painted "PCT" on the road. There's a dirt parking lot on the northeast side of the road down to East meadow campground where you can park your car, but you can also easily walk from the campground, if you know where the trail is located.

great time as usual, camp is well run , rules are enforced, super enjoyed it, if i had any complaint i would like to see the trash containers serviced more than 1 a week.

No one is making campers follow the rules. A boat was in overflow parking, cars and truck were parked with half their width blocking the paved road. Trash cans were overflowing. The camper across from us ran their generator all day up till 10pm.One site had 5 vehicles at it. A double site had 8 vehicles and 10 tents. A boat was tied up at the dock for days. No fish in 13 days, what happened? Please change quiet time to 8pm not 10pm. We have camped at Jackson Meadows(JM) for 21 years and this is the first time no one was catching fish and no rules were followed. I hope you can return JM to what it was.

Host would not enforce the social distancing rules. Group campsites had anywhere from 10 to 20 people at one time and not social distancing. Host would speed around in company truck oblivious to the numerous children out riding bicycles.

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Nice campground. Close to the lake.

The camp host was very friendly and helpful. I asked about where to locate the junction for the PCT southbound. We had a beautiful hike for specular vista of the area. Campsite was clean. I didn't use the bathrooms since I have an RV. I did find a short trail down to the lake, but that isn't marked. Only suggestion is to mark that trail which is located by the lower numbered campsites.

We camp here a lot, and it's usually good. We know it's a popular spot, so we expect a noisy time. This time was fun, but the camp hosts seemed to not care at all about how rowdy the campers got. They parked in the spots designated for our campground, and we were forced to park at the entrance to the campground with our kayaks at risk of being stolen. We will probably camp elsewhere from now on.