About Badgers Den at Camp Richardson Resort
Number of accommodations: 84
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (58)
What Guests Are Saying
Badgers Den at Camp Richardson Resort is praised for its excellent location near Pope Beach and various amenities, making it ideal for family camping trips. Guests appreciate the clean facilities, friendly staff, and convenient access to outdoor activities. However, issues such as bear activity, noise from other campers, and maintenance concerns with bathrooms have been noted, indicating areas for improvement.
What Guests Are Saying
Badgers Den at Camp Richardson Resort is praised for its excellent location near Pope Beach and various amenities, making it ideal for family camping trips. Guests appreciate the clean facilities, friendly staff, and convenient access to outdoor activities. However, issues such as bear activity, noise from other campers, and maintenance concerns with bathrooms have been noted, indicating areas for improvement.
Review Summary
Maiwand P
VerifiedJuly 24, 2025 • Stayed at: 84, Loop: Cedar Loop
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Maiwand P
VerifiedJuly 24, 2025 • Stayed at: 10, Loop: Aspen Loop
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Manahari T
VerifiedJuly 23, 2025 • Stayed at: 74, Loop: Cedar Loop
We love the place .we really enjoyed camping at this site. Very close to amenities and pope beach. Only the downside of this campsite is restroom. It’s very old and not maintained properly.
Jeff G
VerifiedJuly 23, 2025 • Stayed at: 6, Loop: Aspen Loop
Great site. Bathrooms were clean staff was friendly. Close to the water and pope beach. Definitely popular.
Maimeng F
VerifiedJuly 21, 2025 • Stayed at: 4, Loop: Aspen Loop
Loved the location. Close to the bathroom but a short walk to showers. Close to the roads so you can hear the cars but other than that it was really nice!
Nicole V
VerifiedJuly 20, 2025 • Stayed at: 42, Loop: Willow Loop
Great location and love having the restaurant, coffee and ice cream shops nearby. The bathrooms and showers were pretty gross this year though
Doreen R
VerifiedJuly 20, 2025 • Stayed at: 18, Loop: Sugar Pine Loop
My rating is because I have faith that improvements can be made to this beautiful part of South Lake Tahoe. This tent only site was in a nice location but some camp sites were too close to the streets as I’d prefer. You can hear the cars zooming by all day and night if you get a site close to the street. The bathrooms and showers didn’t have vents so it was unpleasantly humid and stinky. They’d run out of toilet paper so bring your own! The drains were not working so the water was overflowing in the showers. The tokens would sometimes be eaten without water, some stalls didn’t provide hot or even warm water. You had to buy tokens at another campsite so make sure to get them in the mornings because when they close then you can’t get them. I would say all the staff were friendly and helpful. They told us about the shower problems and gave us extra coins in case they didn’t work. I say that I would stay here again only if these things were fixed.
Emmalyn N
VerifiedJuly 17, 2025 • Stayed at: 82, Loop: Cedar Loop
This was the most expensive but worst campsite I have ever stayed at. Showers don’t work. No tree coverage. Bathrooms disgusting. Loud all night long (on a tuesday). Litter on campsite from previous campers. No on site staff. Bears on the grounds at night eating loads of food left out by campers. Must check in at a DIFFERENT camp which was never specified. Save yourself the frustration and money and camp at Fallen Leaf which is much more secluded, well kept, has helpful and kind staff, and has respectful campers!
Adam B
VerifiedJuly 17, 2025 • Stayed at: 81, Loop: Cedar Loop
the large family/group at the site next to me were loud well into the night. neighboring campers had to walk over and ask them to please quiet down. the group was large enough they asked to park one of their cars in my spot. BUT the worst part was they left ALL of there cooking pots, supplies, and food out on the picnic table all night, attracting a large bear which then woke up everyone all around between 2am and 4am. while this was happening the group never did anything to scare the bear away or clean up their stuff to prevent it from coming back. so no one got any sleep because of this.
PLEASE LISTEN TO THE RANGERS AND RESPECT THE RULES AND YOUR FELLOW CAMPERS.
Megan C
VerifiedJuly 15, 2025 • Stayed at: 84, Loop: Cedar Loop
There was garbage all over our site, especially pieces of water balloons. I was grateful for the restrooms and showers but they were in filthy condition.
We had some extremely rude neighbors, they were asked to leave around 1 AM, thanks for that.
We did enjoy the short walk to the lake and ice cream.
Location Badgers Den at Camp Richardson Resort
Address:
1900 Jameson Beach Rd
South Lake Tahoe, CA, 96150
United States
Badger's Den Campground is located 3 miles south of Tahoe City, on California Highway 89 (Emerald Bay Road).
From Sacramento, take U.S. Highway 50 to South Lake Tahoe and proceed north past the intersection of U.S. Highway 50 and Highway 89 (the "Y"). Look for the Camp Richardson Resort sign on the right side of the Highway.
From North Shore (I-80, Reno, Truckee) take Highway 89 or U.S. Highway 50 to South Shore.
Latitude & Longitude: 38.9344 / -120.041
Elevation: 1908 feet
Policies & Rules
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There are absolutely no pets allowed at this resort other than service animals. |
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Tent camping only in this campground. No RVs allowed. |
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Forest Order No. 19-15-01: Prohibits camping for a combined total of no more than 14 days during a calendar year (January-December), forest-wide. Visitors may book campsites annually but the maximum stay may not exceed a total of 14 days each calendar year (January-December). |
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Check-in is at the Kiosk at the entry to the Eagle's Nest Campground off of HWY 89. |
| General |
Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in the provided food storage lockers at the site. |
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Single Tent Sites - Maximum of 6 people, 2 tents, 1 Vehicle (1 additional parking pass may be purchased)
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Campfires are permitted in the provided designated metal fire rings only, and must be attended at all times. |
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Charcoal BBQs are not allowed within the campgrounds or on the beach. |
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Quiet time is between 10pm and 8am. |
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Reservation holders must be present at check-in with ID. |
