Crane Flat Campground

Checkout the evening programs of they are offered during your stay. We learned about bears and the night sky! The park rangers were helpful and the giant sequoia grove nearby is a great warmup walk for other hikes in the park. Less hot than lower elevation campgrounds, which was important in mid June this year. Site 504 only accommodates two small compact cars, nothing bigger.

Great campsites. Can get smokey. campers should limit their fires and ensure they are burning clean dry wood purchased in park of collected on site. Smoke is hazardous to you health and every effort should be made to limit it.

Crane Flat Campground was a wonderful place to stay. The sites are open, roomy, and surrounded by beautiful greenery that makes the whole area feel peaceful. Our campsite was also very close to the bathrooms, which were clean and easy to access. Another huge plus is that the 24‑hour gas station is just minutes away, which made it super convenient for late‑night needs or early‑morning drives. Overall, we loved how comfortable, quiet, and scenic the campground felt. We stayed for 3 days and 2 nights

Perfect spot!

This campground is nice. It is also in a very heavily bear centric area so the rangers are very uptight about bear lockers, food being left out...etc which is fair. What I did not appreciate is how rude some of the younger rangers were. They had an attitude that I should know everything about bears, camping...etc. There were two older rangers that were fantastic and extremely nice. I wish that would rub off on the younger rangers as we are all there to relax and enjoy the woods.

The campground stinks for Water and dish washing as both are far from most sites and the spots around the campground and really terrible for Trailers/Vans...etc Super tight and very sloped - comical how bad it is and during the renovation they neglected to level out the pads! This campground is the closest to the north entrance so that was nice. Would I stay here again? Only if I had to.

The location was great and really enjoyed the people and camp host. Booking through Reservation.gov was not easy, but happy we got a spot.

Lots of dust. Bathrooms were well stocked and clean. Not too close to other people

checking in was easy for two car group. spot was big enough for three tents. there’s no electricity, so no lights in the bathrooms, but that was no issue since i had a headlamp. food locker more than large enough for a cooler and several other bags of items. if you have two cars, be wary that the parking spots just barely let us fit a large pick up truck and a sedan inches away from each other.
great spot. really the only downside was the campsite right next to us. they showed up at 12am making so much noise and let their car alarms go off for a full minute. had to tell them multiple times to be quiet and they kept walking through our site by our tents in the middle of the night. very annoying. made us wish there were some sort of boundary between the sites.

the site is about 35 minutes away from the welcome center. we only stayed one night, but i can see that drive being a little annoying if you’re there multiple days as you’ll need to find parking when you get there AKA you need to leave early for parking. also, the gas station next to the site closes at like 5pm, so make sure you get everything you need before then.

The spot was very small -- not ideal for many people, although it was labeled as "Double". In addition, it was close to the restroom, so kinda noisy.

Nice and quiet, but close to things! So nice!