Horse Creek

We thoroughly enjoyed our experience - staff is excellent and very helpful in all respects -

We visited Horse Creek Feb 25 and 26, 2022. We had a good experience and appreciated the spacious camp sites. While the campground is impacted by road noise from The Generals Highway, there was little traffic so the campground was quiet.

We do caution that because most of this campground goes underwater at full pool of Kaweah Lake, there is very little shade at most camp sites. Summer visits could be uncomfortably warm as a result.

We stayed at Horse Creek to visit Kings Canyon National Park. We are glad we stayed here rather than Potwisha Campground inside Kings Canyon NP as it saved hauling our travel trailer up a narrow, winding road to Potwisha, which has much smaller, albeit much shadier, campsites.

Pros:
Great location, close enough to sequoia and awesome view of the hills!
Clean bathrooms, warm showers, helpful check in process

Cons:
Not much privacy site to site (ie. No tree coverage), sites are close together
Highway was a bit loud

Amazing view and location has great potential. Researched location a few months in advance and reviews stated that bathrooms were out of service- we stayed months later and bathrooms were STILL out of service. Available showers were dirty and neglected.

Most sights were not level and not clean at all! Trash to include the norm - bread ties, bottle caps, snack rappers, and the fire pits were filled with odd trash items.

Location either has a lazy staff or is short staffed.

This place has great potential, BUT needs a detailed oriented site manager to make it great.

Would not recommend…

The woman camp host was rude and loud music was playing loudly all night.

Nice camp ground. I know they are currently updating some things and working on bathrooms.

I did stay here so I could shower in the bath house rather than staying in the park, but I regretted it. The showers and bathrooms were filthy.

Staff was very nice. The views of the lake are beautiful and weather was great in mid-March. It was a nice place to walk my dogs.

I am not sure I would stay here again until the bathrooms are renovated.

I was surprised that the majority of the campground was closed, and not available for first come first serve camping. Of the sites open, it was mostly those closest to the road and thus traffic noise. It seemed that the campground maintenance was also not as active.

We wound up deciding not stay at Horse Creek, foregoing the overnight camping fee that we already paid, to find another site up the road at the Azalea campground.

Over all a great experience and campground. One down side is the campground is located right next to a main road so at times when there’s a loud motorcycle or car it makes it not the best “outdoor” experience. The restrooms over all were clean and hot showers which was a big plus. The flushing on the toilets isn’t the strongest so they do have signs to flush multiple times and toilet paper can get stuck. There’s multiple little stores near by(10 minute drive), and only about a 20-30 minutes drive to the entrance of sequoia national park. Just up the main road there’s a nice separate spot to park and get close to the river that leads to the lake at the campground, would highly recommend a hike there. Some people were swimming but the water was cold and at some parts the current looked strong. Will definitely return one day.

We stayed in site 61 which was really nice backed up to the lake and kind of by itself. The bathroom wasn’t too close so just a heads up about that.

great camping spot. great host.