Black Rock Campground

Overall a really nice campground. Basic facilities were clean and sites were spacious. We tent camped and had no one directly next to us. Unfortunately others in the campground were very loud and disrespectful with drinking and music late into the morning, no monitoring of quiet hours. Also didn’t realize you have to drive back out and in to enter the park, not a big deal but just to consider, other campgrounds are within the park. Was nice to have water to fill for hiking next day.

Campground is nice but it was odd that even though every site showed it was sold out online, there were many spots empty.
We were camping for 2 nights with a small RPOD trailer being pulled by a Jeep Grand Cherokee. We also had a Jeep Wrangler to use on dirt and 4wd roads. All fit on the assigned lot driveway of space 61 and 46.
Volunteer host Jim came rushing over 5 mins after we arrived and told us we had to move our Jeep immediately to a lot a distance away because no more than 2 licensed vehicles were allowed per site. We later found out we could have parked in the visitor center parking lot until dark.
We thought the rules are for no more than 2 motorized vehicles per site. The next day we checked with an officer who advised we were right and would advise the Host. Well, the Host Jim pounded on our trailer door the next day and said he would call the police and have us thrown out even though we advised we had spoken with an officer that morning. Not really sure what the rules are as spoke with a Park Ranger over the situation in the visitor center that morning. He initially said the Officer was wrong but when we gave him details of our setup, he was surprised.
We are in our 70s, travel to many National parks and National forest campgrounds and have never been treated like this before.

Overall a really nice campground. Basic facilities were clean and sites were spacious. We tent camped and had no one directly next to us. Unfortunately others in the campground were very loud and disrespectful with drinking and music late into the morning, no monitoring of quiet hours. Also didn’t realize you have to drive back out and in to enter the park, not a big deal but just to consider, other campgrounds are within the park. Was nice to have water to fill for hiking next day.

Great spot for hiking, convenience to town, feeling like you're out there, but without being so far out there. Nice little gift shop, flush toilets, sites are tight, but less trafficked than the campgrounds in the park.

If you are here to see lots of Joshua Trees, this park is great. The staff are very kind and welcoming, which is nice. This campground is run by the park service, however it is a good 20 minute drive to the west entrance of the park, and about an hour from the north entrance - I wish this was made more clear in the park information when booking. Part of the fun of staying in a national park campground is to stay IN the park. The roads in this campground are in desperate need of maintenance, and the sites are not even close to level. The turns are very tight if you have a medium to large RV, but for a car or van they are okay. Next time I would either stay in one of the campgrounds in the actual park, or would pick a campground with hookups in the town of Yucca Valley or Joshua Tree if staying outside of the park.

Great spot for hiking, convenience to town, feeling like you're out there, but without being so far out there. Nice little gift shop, flush toilets, sites are tight, but less trafficked than the campgrounds in the park.

If you are here to see lots of Joshua Trees, this park is great. The staff are very kind and welcoming, which is nice. This campground is run by the park service, however it is a good 20 minute drive to the west entrance of the park, and about an hour from the north entrance - I wish this was made more clear in the park information when booking. Part of the fun of staying in a national park campground is to stay IN the park. The roads in this campground are in desperate need of maintenance, and the sites are not even close to level. The turns are very tight if you have a medium to large RV, but for a car or van they are okay. Next time I would either stay in one of the campgrounds in the actual park, or would pick a campground with hookups in the town of Yucca Valley or Joshua Tree if staying outside of the park.

The campground is not up to standards of most national parks we have visited in other areas of the USA. The vista's are fantastic and the scenic road through the park is very good. The campgrounds along that route had decent roads through them. However the black rock campground even with water and modern restrooms had the worst roads for the loops. Bad enough to make walking on them in the dark a real adventure.

The campground is not up to standards of most national parks we have visited in other areas of the USA. The vista's are fantastic and the scenic road through the park is very good. The campgrounds along that route had decent roads through them. However the black rock campground even with water and modern restrooms had the worst roads for the loops. Bad enough to make walking on them in the dark a real adventure.

We stayed two nights. The area is beautiful. The hiking is good. The bathrooms were clean. The rangers were friendly. All was good except the sites themselves. It was incredibly hard to find a semi level spot. Large potholes on the road and crazy contoured sites. There are better places to stay in JTNP.