Moraine Campground (CA)

My wife and I had a great time. It was our first time camping and we loved it.

Was nice to move to a quieter. More family friendly car camping environment... It reminded me of the old sentinel campground environment. A bit harder to access the river but Really enjoyed it! 😀

Great site.

Large, beautiful campground with excellent hikes nearby. I hugely recommend exploring Kings Canyon during the day! Just don't expect a good night's sleep there. Black bears have gotten bold about going after food in campsites and cars literally every night, so follow all food storage instructions and use the bear bins. And bring ear plugs! People set off car alarms throughout the night to ward bears off. Rangers went around saying car alarms don't do much and to shout and bang stuff instead. That helped for a night; then new people moved in and it was back to 10 car alarms a night. There's nothing quite like walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night when two car alarms go off right next to you warning of a bear. I did also see bears on trail, but they were much more wary and moved on when I made noise to make my presence known. "Keep calm and hike on."

First time camping at this location. I liked that they had a very nicely layed out campgrounds. We had 8 sites all bunched up and none of them felt close. The spacing was nice. The site was clean, restrooms were clean and well maintained. All the sites had functioning fire pits and thankfully each site had its own lock box for the food.
Rangers came by a few times to check on the campers, they were very friendly and knowledgeable about the grounds. Guided us to the safest river access and how secure our food in the lock box. Felt very welcomed by them.
We were impressed by the shower station nearby, we were not expecting it but we kinda liked a clean shower when being away from home. So many good things to say about this place, I really wasn’t expecting to write a review but I was very impressed. We’ll be adding this location to our list of good sites and will be looking forward to coming back.

1. Under-staffed at all levels which led to…
2. Lack of oversight of visitors which led to
3. Excessive numbers of people & cars on individual sites
4. Music being played at volume beyond the individual’s site
5. Trash receptacles overflowing and
6. Bathrooms used beyond their capacities.

This was my first time to visit Kings Canyon. It was just my wife and me. We were tent camping. I'd like to have ranked our visit as excellent or very good, but I had to rank it as good instead. Reasons why were 1) large group set up as a party camp playing music, 2) heavy bear activity included them turning over trash dumpsters adjacent to our campsite, and 3) ours and most campgrounds were on a slope, unfortunately the way many campgrounds were originally built. We loved the river for soaking and for enhancing the views all around (the path from our campsite to the river was treacherous. however, we did find good access by a short drive). We had a great hike up to Mist falls. Overall, we had a very good time.

Great views from the canyon bottom. Large flat sites plenty of room. Our site was near the river and it was very peaceful. Highly recommend

Nice enough campground in a convenient location for Kings Canyon trailhead. Bear(s) in campground. Neighbors a couple sites down were honking their car horns all night in I guess an attempt to scare it away, so I got terrible sleep. People had put trash in the "ash only" Oscar-the-Grouch style cans and the bear tipped it and made a mess at some point during the night which didn't help. Some more education about dealing with the bears to the casual family campers would be good.

Minimal shade. We had full sun almost all day.