Lost Lake Resort and Campground

Great fun for the whole family!

For such a huge park I have never felt crowded or intruded or intruding on any other campers. It is clean, it is well laid out located in one of the most beautiful parts of the state. The lake is fuh-reezing most year around but is not completely intolerable. The water is clean, clear and not allowing motors on the water is the best. The hiking trails from the grounds, as well as the one around the lake are all nice, some tough climbs if you want or easy lolls around the water as well. All clean, all well maintained.
Minus one star for the bathroom situation but then I am not sure how to fix it either. The bathrooms themselves are fine. They are clean, room enough inside and located close/far enough from sites not to sully your experience. The problem is that we have had - twice in a row - people come from outside the grounds (?), drive up in huge vehicles, sit there idling the engine, taking any supplies from the bathroom, found graffiti upon their departure and, when one in our party inquired to reason their length and repeated use (we stayed 3 days, they came by at least twice a day), they became verbally hostile. Again, a public place, bathrooms are not restricted to this camper or that, I get that. But security were not making rounds, when we made our comments to staff we were told management would be informed. All in all a great experience at Lost Lake and we will deffo be back. Just wish they would do something about the bathrooms.
Cheers!

Lovely campground, lodge and hiking areas. Sadly it was a bit chilly and foggy, so we missed the mountain view, but still enjoyed our time at Lost Lake.

{"text"=>"We stayed in the E loop yurts.\n\nStarting with the good: this is a beautiful forest, and a pretty clean lake that's appealing to swim in. The sites are huge and private, and pretty quiet. The walk-in sites offer a unique experience, being separated from vehicles and pavement. The vault toilets are really maintained well, and don't even smell too bad.\n\nThere are a few issues that really need attention, that the state parks and forest service parks do better:\n1) The walk from the car to our yurts was definitely more than the stated 100-300 ft. My GPS app said more like 800 ft for the yurts in the back. And it's all uphill. That's also 800 ft to the bathrooms or to refill your water. Not for the elderly. This should be communicated more accurately on the website. There is one large cart for lugging your stuff (essential!) but it's shared among ten sites. This made the back end of the trip kind of stressful--will we be able to get a cart when we check out on Sunday? We ended up packing all our stuff on Saturday night so we wouldn't be competing with everyone else on Sunday morning, which was fine but made the whole thing more stressful on our last night. The fix: more carts, and more accurate information on the website. I don't think it would be unreasonable for each site to have its own cart, especially for the price you pay.\n2) Please fix the yurt locking issue. The yurt locks every time you close the door. It's like a hotel room, except you only get one key. One party in our group immediately locked themselves out of their yurt. (This is a major safety issue, by the way--what if a baby had been left inside?) We were able to track down the host who sent someone to let us inside (who also commented on how silly this system is--sounds like we're not alone in this). The fix: a deadbolt. You can't lock yourself out accidentally since you need the key to lock the door from the outside. We don't need to keep our yurt locked at all times--really only if we're taking a day trip and leaving the site for several hours. So locking should be an opt-in. Another option would be to do like the state parks and use a lockbox with the key inside.\n3) The signage could be better. When I was looking for the host, there were multiple intersections that didn't tell me the direction of the lodge/store.\n4) I found the check-in and check-out a tad frustrating. First of all, check in is at 4pm and check out is 10am. That's a bad deal! (Forest service is 2pm check in and 12pm check out, state parks are 4pm check in and 1pm check out.) The early check out makes the lack of carts issue even worse. Second, when checking in or out, you have to drive over to the lodge/store. Kind of a headache. There could be drop boxes at the loop, or even leaving the key in the yurt itself--they have to go and clean them anyway.\n\nI've never had to do so much legwork to check in, haul my stuff, figure out where I'm going, and check out on a camping trip. It really made the whole thing more stressful than it needed to be--these were all preventable issues. And with the cost being over double what you pay at state parks/forest service campgrounds, I was a bit disappointed that these things weren't smoother.", "languageCode"=>"en"}