William Kent Campground

Nice staff, and access to the beach, boats rentals,restaurants

I love this campground for the peace and quiet. I paid $12 to access the nearby beach during the day. The camp hosts are also lovely.

What I do not love is the $8 reservation fee. When you book multiple nights, it is not so bad. But if you book a single night and then decide to stay for a second or 3rd night, adding on as you feel like it, those fees really add up and make you sick to your stomach.

For $50/night you’d expect that the bathrooms would have soap and a way to dry your hands. I’m kinda surprised they even had toilet paper.

Wonderful location and walking distance to everything we needed! Camp hosts were not welcoming of our group. Made everyone pay an extra $25 when they arrived even though we had already paid for seven total campsites and had plenty of space for everyone. Overall a good stay and great facilities, but camp hosts were mentioned by many of our 30+ people as a big negative impact on the trip.

We enjoyed our stay at WKC. It was a quiet campground with a good amount of space between sites. It had a large picnic table and fire pit and plenty of shade from the tall pine trees. I reserved site 29 a few weeks out and it was the last one available. The website stated it was 32' long so I reserved it for my 30' TT. After arriving, the camp host told me that the site is only meant for truck and tent camping and my TT would fit but I'd have to park my truck in the overflow parking down at the entrance. The other problem with site 29, was that it was angled opposite of the one-way traffic. So I had to drive the wrong way, opposite traffic in order to back my TT into the site. Once parked and unpacked, we enjoyed the beach across the street and the miles of bike paths. We also did a nice hike to the west along a small creek. Don't miss the bike path to the north which follows the Truckee River. The market across the street is also very nice with a bakery, ice cream, etc. We will definitely be back but in a different space.

Except for the regular visits by the local bear community, this is a wonderful campground.

The campground was lovely and we started off with high hopes. Around 10pm on the first night (July 28th) a very loud chainsaw noise started up. Is was impossible to sleep through even with earplugs and continued until 2:00am. I called the police to file a noise complaint. The following night, it started up again at 10pm. I called the sheriff and they said I’d was part of a road maintenance project and they couldn’t do anything about it. If this is true, it is surely the responsibility of the campground to inform potential campers that there will be incredibly load noises all night. We got 0 hours of sleep between the two of us and ended up driving down to Meeks bay the second night in search of quiet. Absolute nightmare experience.

I was really nervous for my first tent camping experience but it turned out to be real fun. It was nice that we weren't in the middle of nowhere. The campsite and bathroom was clean.

We stayed at 3 different spots during our trip. All sites were great. Cell coverage is minimal. Bears frequent the area so be diligent. Really nice to so close to the lake and restaurants.

Nice quiet site even though campground borders private residences. Good overall. FYI. Description states there is grill and fire ring, but only had fire ring.