Bolar Mountain Recreation Area

Excellent campsite! Beautiful lake, and beautiful sites right on the water. Very kind and helpful camp hosts (thank you Ava & Marilyn!). The other campers were also very kind and friendly. The facilities were also very clean. Looking forward to coming back in the future.

Lake is very nice. Volunteer host excellent. Bathhouse is old. Not much money invested in maintenance

With its large and extensively-wooded camp sites we have enjoyed camping at Bolar Mountain for several years now. We really enjoy the lakeside camp sites. This is the first time that our camping area had a camp host. We have tried to be patient with maintenance issues that have existed each year that we have camped at Bolar Mountain, but the camping area continues to suffer from several maintenance issues. For example, several fresh water taps were not operational during our visit, and there were trail maintenance issues (i.e. fallen trees) that prevented us from using the hiking trails. Even though it is recommended that campers not bring firewood, since there is no firewood for sale service at Bolar Mountain (that we know of), and scavenging for firewood is a challenge, we continue to be disappointed in the lack of this important service. In general it appears that the Bolar Mountain camping areas continue to suffer from lack of resources to properly maintain the facilities.

I try to make to Bolar twice a year. The campground is located in some of the prettiest mountains in the state.

Beautiful but no store (ice, etc) close.

Supposedly, marina store will open on July 5

The campground location and access to the lake are wonderful. The campground itself is in dire need of repairs and maintenance. The water supplies are broken and leak. The showers have no ventilation and therefore are humid and moldy. Simple rules such as the number of vehicles and people in the sites are not enforced and it is wearing on the facilities. Maneuvering in the park is actually difficult due to people parking just about anywhere. Firewood is very difficult to acquire locally and many people are transporting their own. We even had someone in our loop that ran a generator all night for several nights and no one ever enforced the rules. I have been visiting this campground yearly for almost 10 years and am dissappointed to see how much it has degraded over that time.

First camping trip at Bolar Mountain and the campground was very nice! Will definitely be back!

Excellent place to relax from technology and civilization. Just grab a tent.

Had a great time camping at a absolute beautiful lake and location. Its quiet privaye site and the lake is awesome for fishing, swimming and boating. Stayed at site 47. Couple negatives is the marina store and gas pumps are closed, numerous non working water pumps on loop 2. Trail heads aren't maintained, nowhere close to get supplies and the loop 2 camp hostess' parked their boat in front of our water access from our site when. Numerous other sites were unoccupied and refused to move it. Not ideal when I have a toddler trying to swim and fish. This campground could be the best in the state but it appears to practically be abandoned by the federal gov. Such a shame you can tell.it used to be so nice.