Big Reservoir Campground

WORST Camp hosts EVER. Our reservation allowed 2 vehicles per site. They refused to allow us the 2 vehicles and said it was only 1 car for 1 of the spots. They made us pay cash which we did not anticipate needing and they do not have an atm. They were super rude and refused to honor our site agreement. This is one spot I'll NEVER return to and I'd suggest you don't waste your time or money unless you want to be scammed.

Staff / host were abrasive

Malo cobran por entrar al lago llegamos viernes en la tarde noche y salimos el domingo a medio día solo estuvimos en el agua el sábado y nos cobraron los tres y es de muy mal carácter el encargado. El lugar muy bonito …

The listing for this campground is incredibly misleading. The recreation.gov booking only gives you access to a camp site which most of them don’t even have a vehicle parking spot at each site, you have to park in the overflow section. each campsite is extremely close together and is lacking in decent flat spots to pitch a tent. The adjacent privately owned Morningstar Campground controls access to the lake and does not allow dogs in the water. The fees to use any facilities owned by Morningstar are outrageous. $25 per day for lake access, an additional $25 per fishing pole in the water per day, and $50 to walk your dog on leash on the trail around the lake. Otherwise your dog must be kept in your campsite. All of these fees are in addition to the $24 a night for the recreation.gov booking too. Morningstar only accepts cash and doesn’t have their fees posted online anywhere so your only choice is to drive back into Foresthill and use an ATM. This was an incredibly disappointing trip, after learning about the hidden fees and unfriendliness towards dogs, we turned around and went home instead of bothering to stay and try and salvage the trip.

AVOID!! I have never felt compelled to write a review for a campground until now. Our campsite was covered in trash, not a few pieces of cardboard but toilet paper, bottle caps, half melted crayons. The hosts were extremely rude and wanted to charge extra for everything. The hosts own the lake but not the campsites and it was clear they didn't give the campground any effort. If you want to camp in this area check out Sugar Pine lake down the road. We found a spot in Shirttail Creek Campgrounds that was lovely.

nice campground