Chinamen's Campground

Windy, but was a nice stay near the lake to teach the kids how to skip rocks. We rescued a raven hanging upside down in a tree who had fishing wire tangled around it's legs.

Chinamen's campground experience gave us an uncomfortable feeling because when we first arrived we noticed dog poop in the campground areas and on the beach. Then when we opened our RV door to walk our small dog on a lease after set up there was a loose large black dog running up to our RV door (scary for us since we've had another dog attack us years ago and we don't ever want to expose our small dog to unknown large dogs) so we had to speak to the dog owner who came out of the RV parked on the Host site. We believed he may be family (adult son?) of the older Host woman who worked there. He said he'd keep his dog on a leash but the next day his dog was still running loose and he was even throwing a ball down near our campground area from Host RV area on the hill for the dog to retrieve seemingly out of spite! Very uncomfortable experience for us and we were afraid to talk to the Host woman about it in case he might do something more antagonistic than he already was doing. We also had a large dog poop right in front of our driver's side truck door that looked stepped on. All that plus very difficult, tight sites to back into made us unfortunately glad to leave Chimamen's Campground nor can we ever recommend it to anyone.

Best campsite in the area

Camp Host Deb was very friendly! Few others were there - early in the season and not great weather - but the facilities were clean and we enjoyed our visit. If the campground is full the sites closest to the lake are very close to each other but we really enjoyed ourselves.

Nice - water activites

This is a nice campground for tents & small trailers. It has a boat ramp and swimming area. There is no shower house, but the vault toilets are kept quite clean. It is very quiet which was nice. While the map makes it look like a road goes through them, sites 19-21 are in a small cul de sac separate from the other sites. Perfect for a small group. We will definitely return.

One of the last campgrounds that does not have paved road and cement sites to park on.
It gives you an older feel for camping with lots of trees, privacy and hills for the kids to play on.
I would not mind if they did a little improving, I would love to spend a day with a backhoe making sites a bit more friendly as some could use some widening.
It is mostly a tent camping area which is how we started out in and and moved up into a camper. Small campers under 25' at the most are advised only for a few spots and a few more for a slide in the box camper if that is your thing.

However for us, it is the campground where our kids have overall the most fun playing in the trees, climbing the mounts and watching the squirrels, Chipmunks.

Well kept campground. Daily cleaning crews in latrine facilities! No complaints.

Camp ground was great. But every year we go all the sites are booked and so we are left with small no shade sites and our multi family groups are spread out. Yet when we get there, the sites reserved stay empty the whole weekend. This is frustrating since this happens every summer!
Would rather it be first come first serve sites!

For no hookups, this is a great campground. Thank you for the clean toilet facilities.