Wild Mare Horse Camp

The bathrooms were disgusting! Campsites were not clean. Stalls for horses caused damage to one of the horses. There should not be rocks in the stalls

It was great that ATVs, ORVs were not allowed in the campground, to scare the horses and bother the people.

No homeless taking sites, we were happy to see all horse people in the sites.
None of the 4 stalls were cleaned by the prior renters. I had to clean all 4 stalls !!! uggg
Most horse camps have wheel barrels to use, there was none, had to borrow one from another camper.
Love the camp and would love to come back next year.
thank you for all of the hard work.

Alot of non horse people tent camping. I don't think they are paying, as no employee came around checking on things. Went to use the showers up at the atv camp. Was told they closed at 2 in a rude manner. Mosquitoes were really bad from all the standing water. I grew up in this area and it's sad to see it get neglected.

Mosquito's are horrible.

Not a good horse camp. Majority of the sites are filled up with campers with no horses. Sites 3, 7 & 8 have large sharp rocks in the pens. Occasionally a park person stops by just long enough to throw some TP into the restrooms. There is a constant roar of ATV's that you hear all the time from the campground. The mosquitos are very numerous, only using OFF on my mule kept the mosquitos away. I liked the riding but I won't be going back.

Lovely location & campground however occupants in 2 sites next to me had +/- 8 constantly barking dogs until owners went in late evenings. Are there no limits to # of dogs at sites? Owners were just as bad as dogs since they would yell at them everytime they barked. Ridiculous. I nicely asked them to control dogs right next to me in outside kennel but they did not seem it was a problem. The mosquitos were too much for the horse they attacked him thru insect repellent. Only a blanket protected him. Never had fellow equestrian campers so blalantly distrupt entire campground experience.

I knew I needed to plan on coping with mosquitoes. I brought bug spray, fly sheet, fly mask, and a camping vehicle with screens on the windows. This camp is near wetlands with mosquitoes. Is there a way to inform potential campers to be prepared for coping with mosquitoes?

I'm looking forward to new metal corrals planned for installation over the winter.

I observed several camp sites in this horse camp occupied by people without horses or any stock. It seems a better screening process needs to be implemented to make sure those reserving a site for horse camping has horses (or other equines). Possibly requiring a check box for size of the camper's horse trailer? And, or number of stock? Or, both?

It was a great place the only thing I had a complaint about is the camper before me just put their waste on that outside of the stall and didn’t take it to the waste area

The first night i stayed in space 7. the next place space 8 had a large loud group of homeless camp set up barking pit bull dogs, yelling profanity. up all hours until 2:30am. lots of vehicle traffic. very disturbing. The second night i moved to space 5, but the homeless camp moved to space 7, next to me again. so we left earlier than planned and would have liked to have stayed our entire time. The Federal parks dept. crew where top notch. very kind and as helpful as they could be, their hands unfortunately were somewhat tied. The homeless is a Statewide issue so I don't know why I thought I could have escaped it during a family outing. I would Love to help out, in anyway and work for the Parks department if ever you are hiring?