Frissell Crossing Campground

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No host so there is not firewood for sale at the campground. French Pete campground is close by and has a host selling firewood. We camped for 3 nights over a holiday weekend and no one serviced the restrooms over the weekend so the toilet paper ran out on Saturday morning.

Beautiful forest and campground. Our campsite was very spacious. Unfortunately, recreation.gov implied that there was trash collection and running water. Neither of those were true. Water was rusty from the spout, and hardly came out. Sign at the front said to haul out all garbage. It ended up costing us $60 extra dollars in water just to stay the 2 nights. Very disappointing and misleading for how far out it is. Also, whatever you do, do not follow iPhone maps for the location of this campground. It took us to a ranger station. Google Maps is correct, but it is way out there, just keep following the road.

quite peaceful a wonderful stay

It was great. Lovely campground host. We were the only campers. The sites on the river said reserved but they never showed the whole time we were there. The one site they came the last night we were there. Something should be done about no shows. This happens elsewhere. Maybe open the sites after 24 hours. I think maybe they are reserving so they have it for the weekend. We never camp on weekends.

This whole section of the park has been outsourced to American Land and Leisure and they have done an abysmal job at everything they were contracted to do. I would never recommend staying here, honestly it was the worst camping experience I've ever had. Could have maybe been nice but there was a huge group across from us blasting music and screaming the entire stay. The site doesn't have a camp host, we were told by the ranger whom we traveled 75 minutes to speak with that we needed to talk to the host at French Pete (40 minutes away ) but that person never showed up or bothered to stop by following the note we left. We ended up leaving early. River access was minimal, none at the campsite we stayed at (11) and there was only 1 water pump for the entire campsite. You really need to plan ahead to know what you want to do if staying at Frissell because the rangers at the nearest station knew nothing about the area. Middle Fork would have been the better resource (2 hours away) but like i mentioned this who section is "maintained" by American Land and Leisure. The employees I spoke with knew nothing about the area and kept passing me off to someone else.