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| - I couldn't find a location for this specific campground up at Mt. Charleston and wanted to write about my recent experience so I added this to Yelp for others to share also.
This campground is ALWAYS booked, and it's not on the cheap side (close to $40/night with fees). We made a reservation in advance and camped up there last Saturday, August 5th.
Pro's of our visit, because I am always a positive Yelper :)
*Beautiful views!
*Each campground has a fire pit, picnic table & bbq.
*Easy access to walk to hiking trails (along the road, so be careful!).
*Semi-secluded sites (we took note on which one we would book next time...if we care to return).
Cons: (Ugh, here we go - and some are subjective to our visit, so this could not be for everyone)
* All the bathrooms and shower facilities are LOCKED. In place of them, is porta-potties. Each one we walked to had no toilet paper (we brought our own thank goodness) and were getting on the full side. (and we were there on a peak weekend). I think it would be wise to edit the websites and information to reflect this place doesn't have the nice bathrooms and showers anymore. I'm assuming because of funding. Sad face. No running water at the drinking fountains also.
*Our lovely neighbors. We were a little unlucky in that we had very rude neighbors that clearly don't understand camping etiquette. Burping and belching loudly, hawking spit out (every 5 mins) and SNORING all night. It was comically loud. I almost considered it violating the 10pm quiet hour rule. If anyone knows the golden rule of camping, it's we all go to escape idiots and reconnect with the tranquil outdoors.
*Safety: Again, just our luck, we had teenagers driving about 25-30 mph through the campground roads around 9:30pm at night, when it's clearly 10 mph posted everywhere. They looped around blasting music about 3-4 times. I was so concerned they would hit a child or someone who was walking to use the restroom in the dark since they were going so fast.
*Dumpsters: I always have a leave no trace rule and pack in and out, but if I had wanted to leave my trash from my overnight stay, the dumpsters were so full, and it sadly looked like people had illegally dumped there, or that it hadn't been serviced in 3+ weeks. Awful. It basically encourages people to leave trash.
These experiences made our camping overnight trip not the best, and we hope the camp host and Recreation.gov will take this feedback into consideration.
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