Black Rock Campground

A very nice campground, of course when you are there you have to drive into the park, the Joshua Trees and rock formations are so beautiful, we loved Skull Rock and hiking up to it. We also hiked to Arch Rock, which was a good hike. A great place for dinner is the Joshua Tree Saloon, we recommend the hamburgers and fish tacos.

Conveniently located near a city for last minute supplies and good hiking trails

The Joshua Tree is as lovely as ever, but this campground facility is an embarrassment to the National Park System. I know the maintenance backlog at the NP's is a national problem, but I've never seen it demonstrated quite so explicitly. The campground infrastructure is crumbling. Literally. What were once presumably chip-sealed campground roads are now more pothole than surface in many (most) places- drive it in a low-clearance vehicle at your car's peril. Where the roads are either entirely free of old pavement or where they have magically retained it, they are easy enough to negotiate, but they are almost all literally one big rain event away from becoming impassable. There are also enormous erosion scars running through many non-road portions of the campground, both hazardous to people of limited mobility and an ecological disaster in the making if they're ignored for much longer. The bathrooms appeared to be functional, but I didn't investigate them closely so this is all I will say: the maintenance backlog at this campground definitely extends to the bathrooms. I was not grossed out by them, but just for context, I am a sleep-on-the-ground kind of camper and it takes a great deal to gross me out.

Mostly I'm just disappointed in this country's lack of support for what should be one of its most cherished accomplishments. We should all be embarrassed to host anyone- especially visitors from other nations- at a facility in this state of disrepair.

Conveniently located near a city for last minute supplies and good hiking trails

The Joshua Tree is as lovely as ever, but this campground facility is an embarrassment to the National Park System. I know the maintenance backlog at the NP's is a national problem, but I've never seen it demonstrated quite so explicitly. The campground infrastructure is crumbling. Literally. What were once presumably chip-sealed campground roads are now more pothole than surface in many (most) places- drive it in a low-clearance vehicle at your car's peril. Where the roads are either entirely free of old pavement or where they have magically retained it, they are easy enough to negotiate, but they are almost all literally one big rain event away from becoming impassable. There are also enormous erosion scars running through many non-road portions of the campground, both hazardous to people of limited mobility and an ecological disaster in the making if they're ignored for much longer. The bathrooms appeared to be functional, but I didn't investigate them closely so this is all I will say: the maintenance backlog at this campground definitely extends to the bathrooms. I was not grossed out by them, but just for context, I am a sleep-on-the-ground kind of camper and it takes a great deal to gross me out.

Mostly I'm just disappointed in this country's lack of support for what should be one of its most cherished accomplishments. We should all be embarrassed to host anyone- especially visitors from other nations- at a facility in this state of disrepair.

Great campground, close to town. Excellent cell service

Great campground, close to town. Excellent cell service

Camp sites are more or less fine but roads in campground are an absolute mess - ie huge potholes and erosion.

We were towing a travel trailer so maybe a different experience than others. The roads were atrocious, very torn up and washed away!!! They didn’t give us a campground map at checkin and the roads were so bad that we had a hard time finding our site. They also didn’t give us the campground rules so we had to figure it all out on our own.. It was very windy at the time we were there (obviously not a dig of black rock) the wind made out stay a bit miserable… rangers were very friendly and informative, which was a good thing since the girl in the nature center at check in was very UNinformative!!!

I had an excellent time. The roads yes had some pot holes but nothing any normal non modified vehicle cant handle. The parking space for the site i selected 041, was a bit unusual. It had a bit of a dip so if you parking facing forward towards the site, be careful on the dip. Otherwise if you park perpendicular to the site, you wont have any issue. The weekend we went, the winds at night were honestly insane. Ive never experienced that much wind anywhere in my life. So check for weather. If you see winds are above 30 mph then just know you are in for a somewhat ridiculous ride. Otherwise, great campsite. bathrooms were no where near as bad as some have reported. They were relatively clean for a campsite. There are onsite trash cans to toss trash in, but there is no where to wash dishes.