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Eldorado National Forest
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5 reviews for Eldorado National Forest
5 reviews in English
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Review from Susan R.
Beautiful drive. Enjoy the photos!
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Review from patrick w.
Sacramento, CA
6/6/2010
Pretty awesome spot. They just put in bear boxes so right on. I've been camping here for around 5 years now. My wife's been camping up here for 26. It's a good spot. Its usually pretty quiet and there are lots of spots with only a few camping slots. there's also great places to camp that are hike in only which clears out most of the riff raff.
I went up this last weekend and their were some jackass's doing the usual jackassery.... blasting bad music all day and night, annoying everyone around them with their wanna be hickness. Some lady across the way called rangers on them... hoo boy. Those rangers take care of business!
next day they got hit with multiple visits, breathalyzer tests, and all sorts of awesomeness. That night..instead of listening to dudes grab-assing each other while playing beer pong...i actually got to sleep before 3am and didnt have to listen to any disney inspired country songs. Sweet. The rangers = awesome. -
Review from Kimi m.
El Cerrito, CA
6/1/2007 1 photo
Great for camping!!
Sometimes I get stuck in a little foggy bubble of city-living, that I forget how varied and absolutely gorgeous the rest of the California landscape is...
We found a small remote camping area, near a babbling brook and gorgeous waterfall, surrounded by lots and lots of trees.
During late spring and the rest of the summer, it gets hot & sunny during the day and gets cool/cold at night. It's about 2.5 hrs east of San Francisco.
(There's absolutely no cell phone reception where we were at, though, so be forewarned.)Listed in: The SF Bay Area Outdoors
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Review from Earlene C.
East Bay, CA
7/2/2007 3 photos
Indeed a beautiful place to camp! Fresh air, tall pine trees, refreshing clean waters ...it is gorgeous scene. But prepare to be truly roughing it!! We stayed at Sunset-Union, a lovely spot near the beach of the reservoir.
It could be that this camp is low budget, but there were no bathroom facilities near our camp. They just had his/her outhouses--AKA a hole in the ground with a toilet seat. The smell is unbearable and hardly clean. They have several water faucets around the camp, but we are not allowed to wash our hands, wash dishes or do anything except pitch water in your pail and take it back to your site!
At your site, there are no bear boxes! So each night we had to clear out everything back into our cars. With a party of 9, we had a lot of food and supplies. It was a hassle having to hide everything each time and the next day not knowing whose car we put whatever supplies.
I know, it's camping... but we like camps with some amenities like bear boxes or flushing toilets! Perhaps it's the fact that this was a National Park and the system is different from the State Park system. But the previous years of camping at State Parks we have been spoiled with their amenities. Services like bear boxes and nice bathrooms with sinks you can use and real toilets that flush and don't reek of who knows what!
Anyway, despite those things... we enjoyed our time. The Eldorado Forest is beautiful none the less. -
Review from Janice F.
San Francisco, CA
8/16/2011
Highly recommend this beautiful find. A true getaway from the city life, with chains of lakes and rivers, with waterfalls, hiking trails, off road driving, fishing, boating, and swimming. You'll drive up a mountain off highway 50, enjoying the scenic blue skies, pine trees, and just peacefulness. They have a few 1st come 1st serve campsites, but the one that is never really over crowded is Airport Flat. I've checked out Yellowjacket (crowded), Wench Creek (little better), but I highly suggest going for the group campgrounds, especially Wolf Creek. Don't let the horror movie with the same name give you any ideas. This spot rocks. So much privacy, room to roam, that you could totally have polygamists start a clan there. Just kidding. But you get your walkway to the lake and your own restroom vault (no flush). Showers are limited and coin-op. You'll have to drive to the more populated crowded campground to shower. In any case, this will still be my all time favorite location to camp. Its worth the ugly traffic drive for sure.
