Narrows Campground

This campground has so much potential. Pros: this campground is absolutely lovely, lots of beautiful wildflowers and shimmering trees; the lake is stunning and full of fish. Cons: there is no way to reach the lake without tramping through the forest (no walking trails at all). Also, this campground is down a 2 or 3-mile long, very bumpy, not maintained dirt road (where I'm from we called this a driveway; there was no sign that any road scraping has been done here.) Additionally, there is/was no camp host for Summer 2020, making the campground a free-for-all for squatters. Unfortunately there was a very angry man and his dog at the campsite I reserved and he said "you'll have to call the US Marshalls to get me off this campsite" and referred repeatedly to his cache of guns in his vehicle. Of course we drove down the road and found another unclaimed site, but there was no way we could communicate with the host or Recreation.gov for help. Additionally, there was no maintenance for the restroom since there was no camp host; it was also not clear to me that there would be no trash pick-up/receptacles at this campground. Another camper we met during our trip also warned us that the man at our campsite had driven his truck past our *new* campsite several times, displaying stalking behavior. We were like sitting ducks and it was terrifying. While that was out of control of Recreation.gov, I would warn against keeping remote campgrounds open without a camp host - to avoid situations like this. There were clearly many people at this campground who felt it was their "right" to be there.

Forest Service is derelict in road and campground maintenance