Kelsay Valley Horse Camp

The camp was great, the RR clean, trails were cleared and wonderful; thanks to OET and other volunteets. The directions on recreation.gov were WRONG and I wasted 2 hours backing my rig back out of the wrong road! Do not follow the driving directions at recreation.gov !!

Wonderful camp for equestrians, maintained and hosted by equestrians. Approximately 50 mi of trails have been cleared this year, ranging from easy to moderate to difficult. Plenty of water all summer in the creek. Six of the seven sites are level and can accommodate large trailers (I have a two-horse gooseneck with ten-foot living quarters). If you have a horse, I recommend camping here.

Camp hosts were very helpful. Camp sites are large and well spaced. There has been a lot of work clearing the trails.

Clean camp, wonderful atmosphere. I could get grumpy about the rock sticking out in the camp road that sliced my trailer tire but the weekend was so great I didn't give it a second thought. The camp hosts were exemplary, extremely friendly and welcoming. Roseburg OET has done an excellent job of clearing trails.

Campground host is super friendly and helpful. Most of the trails are blocked from downed trees but OET and BCH have secured a grant to hire a crew to clear all the trails this fall. One trail to Maidu lake is open and a small loop by the Campground also.

Camp host were super nice and the camp ground was very well maintained. We enjoyed the lovely trails around the campground and it's close proximity to Diamond an Crater Lake. We will definitely go back and can only recommend this place. The volunteers working there are wonderful and full of knowledge and made awesome recommendations. Their work shows as the camp ground is very well maintained.

Kelsay Valley Horse Camp is a hidden gem, but the trails aren't being kept up to Forest Service standards. Which is sad to see. The trails need to be cleared earlier, so folks who come in July can ride the loops

Well, there are 2 ways into this place, one is a 5 mi dirt road, the other is a 23 mi dirt road. Google took us in on the 23 mi and out on the 5 mi...it was quite an adventure. The site itself was OK, it smelled, but it is a horse camp.

Very quiet camp. I hiked the Tenas Peak loop and up to Lake Lucile and neither of those trails are cleared for horses--maybe a reason no horse camps were used while I was there. The trail down from the south side of Tenas Peak to the Maidu Lake trail was especially covered with debris and downed trees. Camp #5 was the least desirable of the non-horse camps--kind of sloping and jammed in between horse dropping bins (they were empty so no smell). Camp #6 was better--not so sloping. Water was available from the creek at the traihead in the campground, so I didn't need to bring in large containers (the review said no water at the camp). Lots of mosquitoes, but that's to be expected this time of year. Bathroom was very clean and there are trash receptacles. After checking out the other campgrounds in the area I am glad I chose this one for the solitude. There also was a lot of wood leftover from campground maintenance to burn in campfire rings. An axe was useful to split it.

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