Diamond Lake

The Sheer beauty of the campground and surrounding area were spectacular. The bike/ hike trail around the lake were amazing. But the lack of care and maintenance of the restrooms and the showers was disgusting. Worse I’ve seen in 40 years of camping in Forest Service campgrounds. My recommendation is, fire the Camp Hosts and Camp Janitorial Service. Facilities were quite simply Gross!

First, let me say, We LOVE Diamond Lake campground. We normally just have the usual suspects in bugs and aren't overly bothered by them. This time, there was some type of midge fly hatching and there were billions, yes with a b, swarming. We couldn't sit by the lake this time without the bugs everywhere. They were in our tent, in our faces, in our food and they were unrelenting. This is not the campgrounds fault, but it was so bad we left early.
It didn't seem to be so bad if you were farther away from the lake, but we really enjoy sitting by the lake and watching the wildlife and sunsets, so we had booked a lakeside camping site.
We talked to an employee at the resort who has worked there 18 years and he said he has never seen it like that there and this was something new to the lake and they had been hatching and swarming for two weeks, so I'm kind of hoping that Recreation.gov will in the future put up a notice to those who have reservations that there is a hatch going on. If we had received a notice about it, we probably would have chosen a different site for our stay a bit farther away from the lake if one was available. But, we will try again next year and hopefully not have that problem.
This is our favorite place to camp. This site is pleasant, but just as an FYI, there isn't much shade at the site during the afternoon sun.

Beautiful location, will definitely be back!

This is a beautiful campground if you are along the lake (we were) and very quiet and well spaced camp spots. We were in site M4 (no hookups on this site but there is a dump station and water fill close to entrance of campground and we are self contained) and we had great neighbors for our entire stay. We stayed in early July and the bugs were crazy (being by the water we expected them and it also rained the day we arrived). Be prepared for LOTS of gnats and mosquitoes with bug spray and also have screens on your RV. Our van had literally hundreds of gnats all over it which some were still on the van after our 2 week and 3k mile trip. We loved this campground with decent showers and cannot fault the campground for the bugs, just be prepared for them if you come. It was close to Crater Lake NP which we visited for 2 days and it was beautiful and not very busy, certainly a must see. We would stay here again and would like more time to explore Diamond Lake area.

The setting and the campsites are lovely. The bathrooms and showers are quite simply some of the most gross and disgusting we have ever experience at any Forest Service campground in our 40n years of camping. The “Camp Host” was really MIA. Saw the Janitorial service show up once. He spent less than 5 minutes in each restroom. Emptied the garbage, sprayed something on the floors and left all the filth in the toilets and on the floor. No cleaning of toilets. No sweeping or mopping of floors. The showers were even worse. With hair and garbage clogging drains. Sinks and counters look like they hadn’t been cleaned in months. Recommendation: Fire the camp hosts! Fire the Janitorial Service!

Staff was extremely friendly. Sites were clean.

To many darn knats and they also can clean up all the campsites and repave some places

Fantastic campground and a fantastic lake with a speed limit! It is one of the few places where families can go to relax and be on and in the water without speedboats and waterskiers. Thanks!

This site is huge and beautiful! Close water access is a little difficult. There are a couple spots behind the bathroom with a small drop off to the water.

The staff in the information desk were extremely kind and wonderful people. However the bathrooms were rarely stocked with toilet paper and they were disgusting; toilet paper thrown all over the ground, the hand dryer was broken in the girls bathroom in H loop. The showers were absolutely gross and never cleaned the entire week we were there. I don’t expect spotless showers but I wanted at least the trash and hair wads in the shower stalls to be cleaned out.