Lake Camanche South Shore

Amazing and clear water, love it for the dogs, the dog park is amazing and makes camping so much more fun. The hiking trail that accepts dogs is also super pretty. Great staff all around and the RV parking is very clean and close to the water. Store is always stocked and prices are reasonable. The water is super warm, which makes it feel tropical, we also love that you can see the bottom in the day use area.

I've always heard about Lake Camanche but had never gone. Now that I've been there, I won't be going back. I expect there to be bugs and other elements of nature, however a cockroach infection is a whole different level of creepy. I'm not talking about one or two, there were hundreds just at our campsite alone. Cockroaches are a dirty and downright disrespectful species.

First timer here at Lake Camanche and it was definitely above expectations! I kept my expectations low prior to arrival but once my friends and I pitched tents and started swimming + using the other amenities, I realized it's so much better than other sites I had visited before. Despite the blazing summer heat, it was a good time. First would like to address that we're in the wilderness and in nature, people! Bugs and other nature related issues ARE to be expected. It's funny that some people think the sites could regulate the amount of bugs or something when it's a part of nature. Maybe different parts of the site had more than others, but near 120s we had the normal flies, bees, ants, small creatures roaming. Nothing that bug spray or swatting couldn't fix. The restrooms and showers are not janky, they're obviously not ideal either, but I was so grateful to even have the ability to shower daily. That said, I think the men were a little annoyed that only one shower was working at the time but still were happy because one shower is better than none.Anyway, the campsites are huge depending which spots you reserve! Really enjoyed having a private enough area for me and my friends to camp at, and we were just two levels above the lake. The views are amazing, especially at night. My friends and I experienced little to no issues at the campgrounds, parking was easy and we enjoyed our time there! We will definitely be back in the future and I am thankful that the rangers came around to inspect often. There were some issues with other campers, but those were dealt with in timely manner. Thank you Lake Camanche!

This is the worst place to go camping. I will never ever come back here. It's disgusting. How is it that in one particular season, you don't spray or fumigate this place. Cock roaches and wayer bugs every to the point we could not eat or drink without feeling sick. We could not cook or use the grills because the roaches would surround the pits. So, no barbecue, this was the craziest weekend we had spent here on top of finding out someone was murdered here the week before on the sane site we were in. No one when checking in bothered to tell us anything. And because of that, we had sheriffs policing us the whole time. Park Rangers came by to tell us to put our movie screen down and not to put it back up the next day. Wtf was that about. I would not recommend this place to anyone. The bathrooms again were disgusting. What are we paying for? After the last review, i thought It would be different, so i booked right after we left last year. I would never recommend this place to anyone, and i brought more friends, and they said, " DONT EVER BRING ME BACK HERE AGAIN," Then they said we have much better camps. They were so pissed. Never again, and one star is too many. This place is ghetto. Next will be ne alling the health dept for those bathrooms. I will be requesting my money back as recommended as we are leaving a day early. This was nuts.

It was hott that weeknd but full hook ups helped plus the water was nice to get wet in!! Only thing is I wish we'd the would try to keep any grass green and not just let it turn into hay lol but oh well we love the area!! Also we love north shore !! But we will be back weeknd after thanks giving !! See you soon

The worse of worse is that there ARE A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF COCKROACHES at night time ALL OVER the campsites, EVERYWHERE. It is not possible to walk two steps without seeing multiple of them. It is like a horror movie that my kids kept screaming at night and we were so afraid to leave our campsite to the bathroom. One of the cockroaches must be hidden on one of my items and when I got home, it was crawling in my car, absolutely disgusting! I still can't skill that cockroach inside my car and I had to buy cockroach baits and left the baits in the car. I am extremely worried that the cockroach may be leaving baby roaches and get my home infested. We stayed at the South Shore Sugarloaf campsite #92 for the July 4th weekend for 3 nights. My friends stayed at campsites 94 to 98, for a total of 12 families camping together. Each campsite can take up to two cars, and you just pay $18 extra per night for the second car. The campsites are very lowly maintained, the women's bathroom lights were totally out on the bathroom side (both lights) so it is very dark at night time, though the shower side had the light on. The showers are dirty and one of the three stalls is broken. The toilet seat paper is constantly out without replacement. There was also no hot water in the shower! We had to call the park services to have them come and clean the toilets because apparently people checked off the service log but no cleaning. My husband complained about the men's bathroom. One of the toilets was clogged, one of the showers was broken. That meant a LONG line waiting for the shower stalls while there were so many campers for the long weekend. Also no hot water in the men's shower room. This is by far the worse, dirtiest, and lowest maintained campsites I have been at. The park ranger and services seriously need to start doing something at this Lake Camanche camp ground. One of the benefits of this campsite is that you can swim at the lake, or bring water equipment to play.

It was the first camping visit here and the view out on the water was just beautiful, the swimming was great and the water warm and clear, showers and bathrooms were well cleaned camp site was clean and a little convenient store is located on site and also alittle store outside close to campsite and is very reasonable we had alot of space to camp great place to go camping.

My family and I have been camping at South Shore for over 10 years. We have always had a great fun time and a great customer experience with front gate people.We never had such a bad experience until this time for over 10 years!All the young ladies at the South Shore front gate needs to have more training - they all needs to be properly trained on how to greet customers with a happy face and to have a pleasant attitude with customers. The ladies were are all so rude. But expect the older lady...the older lady was very nice and she had a pleasant customer friendly attitude.Ok now... let's get to the real topic for my review.Each year for over 10 years, we've always reserved 5 days stay. Our site was always a group site and are allowed 24 people and 6 vehicles.When some of our party had to leave we were always able to return the parking tags at front desk to have the parking tag for another vehicle that came out later. We have never reached over our capacity of persons on our site, and we've always made sure on how many vehicles are parked at our campsite. If there were more than 6 vehicles on our campsite, then they would always pay for daily use passes. But this time it was such a big hassle and issue with this specific RANGER GREG PERSON regarding how many vehicles or how many people are coming to our campsite.Ranger GREG PERSON didn't allow this process. GREG PERSON said "WHICHEVER COMES FIRST POLICY" - 24 people or 6 vehicles. He will not allow any other people or vehicles enter into our site, because "they've done so much for us already" (whatever that means). And that we're at capacity. Greg declined to check when we asked him to go check our campsite.Ranger GREG PERSON also had the audacity to say the we were sneaking people in. Why the hell would we need to sneak people in when we didn't even meet the capacity of people! We are not the type of people to be sneaking anyone into our campsite. We only left campus when needed to get ice bags. We were always able to drive in and out of the gates to buy some ice at the local store near town and we never had an issue or anyone accusing us of sneaking people into our campsite.And now my brother drove 3 hours to get here and wasn't allowed in. The front desk wouldn't let him in, because of Ranger GREG PERSON didn't allow it, said we're over vehicle capacity.(We had 5 vehicles parked at our site and still had 1 vehicle tag left for my brother to park, and had 18 people at our site)GREG PERSON said the only way this would work to let my brother into our campsite is that we had to pay for another campsite (we've already paid total of $1,144 for our reservation stay). So of course, since my brother drove 3hrs to get here and it's 10:30ish pm. I paid for another campsite $54.75 to let my brother in, while paying for the additional site the lady that took my payment said my brother isn't allowed on our campsite. Really!?! The Ranger GREG PERSON said "the only way this would work" is for me to purchase another site, which I did!!When some people of our party left with their vehicle that didn't stay for the whole reservation days, we were always able to switch out the vehicle tags for the next vehicle that were coming into our group campsite.We've been doing this for over 10 years. There's nothing stated on their website, or on our itinerary, or receipt payment, or emails reminders of our upcoming stay that states a "WHICHEVER COMES FIRST POLICY"If the Ranger Greg Person and or the front gates ladies had an issue or doubts with head counts and vehicles on our campsite then they should ALL JUST DO THEIR JOB! GO CHECK how many people and vehicles are on our campsite...then there wouldn't be such an issue and I wouldn't have had to be pressured to purchase another campsite.From reading some of the others reviews that had the same issue as us. Ranger GREG PERSON is definitely prejudiced towards Asian people.Ranger GREG PERSON made our stay a nightmare. He was very happy and enjoyed giving our group a really hard time, with also threatening to call the Sheriff and then forcing us with no choice to purchase another siteWILL NEVER COME BACK CAMPING HERE.Unless if this Ranger GREG PERSON is no longer working at this lake, and all the young ladies at the front gate are all properly trained to have a nice attitude with customers, then we may think about coming back.

We enjoyed the camping tent at lake Camanche . I personally recommend it . We love the lake , water was warm.

Spoiler Alert: there are roaches.Feeling excited and giddy as we turned through the soft curves leading up to the lake. The hour and 45 minutes it took to drive after strategically packing the car like Tetris blocks was worth the immediately calming views of tree-lined streets with a few horse ranches in between. We had waited for a over a month for this much needed vacation that the kids looked forward to as much as their parents. As we pulled up to the gate it was quick and easy to get in. For the Sunday before the 4th of July it wasn't too crowded. The heat of midday was evident as it quickly sucked out the cool, air conditioned atmosphere we had become accustomed to during the journey. The girl in the window was nice and highlighted the way to our campsite on a map. The excitement intensified to an antsy eagerness as we drove the lakeview and tent-lined path to our site. We hopped out the car, and after saying our hellos to the rest of our camp group, we quickly unloaded the car and set up our tent so enthusiastically that we had nearly forgotten it was a suffocating 98 degrees. All set up, and pouring sweat, the adults tried to enjoy the shade of the merciful trees that surrounded our site while the kids yanked at our shirts begging to get into the lake. We had a great view of the lake from the Moccasin site 191 and we were so close, so, what the heck, we all changed and went to sway in the tepid reservoir. The water changed from warm to cool in different areas, as we floated around with the pieces of vegetation that wafted up from below. Everyone was happy, enjoying their fun in the sun while playing water games and pretending to swim with life jackets or just drifting along in an inflatable. A couple of hours and wrinkly fingers later it was time to get out as the hunger pangs kicked in. Back to the camp, we rinsed off a little at the faucet next to the site. But it wasn't long until a full refresh was needed as lots of debris from the lake had worked its way to hidden places underneath my swim gear. As the men got the grill in order, I walked the not so long, but sweltering path to the women's bathroom prepared to quickly shower and redress. Thankfully, there was no line or any crowding, but the grimy floors and walls, and mirror from a horror movie were not exactly welcoming. Carefully stepping into the shower with my flip flops, I didn't want to touch anything, let alone hang my towel on the door. But luckily, I had thrown the necessities in a plastic grocery bag which I used to hang on the hook behind the door as I tried my best to get clean despite the spiders, wasps, and mosquitos (dead and alive) that hovered above. I made it out safely and although showered, I still walked out of there not feeling so clean.Back at camp, we ate, and laughed and played games all while gazing at the view of the lake which looked as if it stretched to the horizon. The sky transitioned to a burnt orange as the sun began its descent. Then it was time to see what kind of fish was going to take our bait. We headed to the bank to cast and prop up a couple of poles to see what we would catch. A few bluegills fell for the trap but fortunately for them they were too small to keep and were thrown back to swim another day. As we packed up thinking about a campfire and s'mores, a black looking bug crossed our path. "Look at that," one of the kids said. "Is that a beetle?" another asked. As I looked a little closer, I thought to myself that it was a big cockroach, then someone else said it out loud. I shuddered at first, then shrugged it off seeing as we were at the shore of a lake in the middle of nature. The night had come, the stars shined bright, and the fire pit was lit as we lit marshmallows on fire to smash between graham crackers and chocolate. We were all full of laughter and so content as we talked and listened to music. It was all good until....(See pics for the continued story)