Reynolds Creek

The park is filthy. It has never been cleaned up from the last flood. There’s debris all over the shorelines. You cannot get to the water at any spot. There is no swimming space the showers are like Prison showers your magic button and it lasts about 30 seconds and goes off and the water is too freaking hot to even take a shower. There are people living in the park. They have consumed 5 to 6 campsites, and they have been there months maybe even years they have metal buildings for the storage. They even had an 18 wheeler delivering stuff to them while we were there, these were not the gate keepers they live up by the gate. This was a planned of people that have taken over these campsites, and they need to be told to get out of the park apart rules for 14 consecutive days and no more yet these people are allowed to live there for months on end , the people at the gate are filthy and nasty and they need to take a bath and brush their nasty teeth. We will never go back to Reynolds Creek. It was the worst park we’ve ever been in.

Other than the rain and low lake level, our trip was great. On one of the nights, a tree blew over and landed on our boat trailer. We reported this to park ranger Taylor Christian and he had a crew out almost immediately. And Taylor showed up as well. The tree was cut up and cleared quickly and our trip continued without incident. Because of the heavy rain forecasted at the end of our trip, we cut our trip short a couple of days and even with the short notice, we were refunded for those days. Thank you!!!

Great equestrian campground. However, as few public lands provide any accommodations for horse riders, I’m disappointed when campers w/o horses are allowed to camp in an equestrian campground, especially when there are remaining open sites in the non-equestrian areas.

We were in site 31; very level site. However, there was no bbq grill, only a pole. When presenting the woman at the booth, she informed us to just take off another one and put it on our pole!!! How ridiculous. Those things are SOOO heavy. No other help available. We had to go buy something to cook our food on since everything we brought was for a grill.

We have camped at Reynolds Creek for the last 20 years. Our experiences have been so varied and many, I'm sad to say, have not been favorable. For the last 10 or so years, we have stayed in Site 11. We have been told so many variations of the rules of parking that we are not sure what to do anymore. In the past we were told that we could park our boat trailers in the grass. Then we are told that we cannot park them at our campsite, but must use the parking lot across from the restrooms. We did that the next year and found a note on the boat trailer stating that we couldn't park our trailer there. On our most recent visit, we had just pulled up to Site 11 (hadn't even parked the camper). The boat was was hooked behind the camper so we unhooked it so that we could park the camper. We were immediately swooped in upon by the gate attendant who said that we couldn't park our boat where we had put it (just so that we could position the camper). He was quite rude - I mean, we had just arrived and were already being hassled by the gate attendant. We asked if we could park the trailer in the grass and was told no - one wheel had to be on pavement. We also asked if we could park in the parking lot across from the restroom an were told absolutely not (from what we observed, this parking lot is not used by anyone). So we complied by this gate attendant's rules. A few days later, we ran into a Park Ranger and asked if we could park the trailer in the parking lot across from the restrooms and he said that it wouldn't be a problem. After telling him what we were told by the gate attendant, he said he would speak to him. So, could we please get some rules posted on a sign so that we know exactly what we are allowed to do? There is absolutely no consistency and a lot of frustration when trying to guess what the rules are this year as opposed to the previous year(s).

We had another great trip this year and are ready for next year,hopefully same time and spot.

The camping sites were excellent. I have never had such large and private sites like this with plenty of trees for shade and set up so you had your own private area. There were tons of dead trees, branches and logs that we were able to gather to burn in the fire pits. Almost all the sites had excellent views of the lake and a perfect place for multiple families to have their own private areas to camp as a group with 3-4 campsites in one area separated from other areas.

The lake was pretty much unaccessable. The water was way down and you had to be very agile to get over the many boulders down to the water. It didn't stop the fishermen, but I was not about to traverse and injure myself. The only accessible area was around the boat dock. There was a small trail for hiking and lots of paved roads to ride our bikes.

The showers were horrible. Luke warm with very low water pressure. It was also filthy with bugs and the shower curtains had pollen and dirt all over them. It was nasty.

We have a 43' motorhome. Reserved Site E1. It was an equestrian site. Plenty of room, level and no obstacles. Had a nice pavilion and a clean bathroom with shower right there. Had good AT&T and verizon signal. Picked up about 30 channels on OTA tv antenna. We stayed here because it was near family. Check out my youtube video about our stay at Reynolds creek. Go to you tube and search for " Bill & Carol's Travel Project"

Sites are always clean and ready to go. The workers at the gate are super friendly as well. We love staying here.

We had a wonderful time. The view was beautiful.