Steele Canyon Campground

The staff is amazing. Friendly helpful and definitely respectful. Now I've only gone in the winter "non season" I will say it's nice since it's not busy. However in season, personally the camp sites are just too close together. That's my personal opinion but this is also coming from someone who backpacks and enjoy disperse camping. If this place isn't busy, I'd definitely recommend if it is busy well. I'll have to experience it myself and I'll drop an update.

I recently stayed at Steele Canyon Campground, and unfortunately, I won't be returning. While a few sites offer good water access, the campsites themselves are crammed together, providing little to no privacy. During my stay, neighboring campers were extremely disruptive--blasting music, leaving trash everywhere, and generally being disrespectful.When we first arrived, someone with a day pass was blocking our access to the site, and it took over 45 minutes to find the person and have them move. Additionally, the dumpsters were full from the moment we arrived, and it only got worse after some neighbors unloaded a trunk FULL of trash which they spilled everywhere and didn't bother to clean up.On top of that, the same group of campers had two off-leash doodle mixes that repeatedly ran and jumped all over us, especially when we went down to the water. One of the dogs pooped in the water where we were trying to fish, and the owners did nothing to clean up after them. Overall, the combination of poorly maintained facilities (we did see a camp host on Sunday who came to remove and clean some of the trash), overcrowded campsites, and inconsiderate campers made for a very disappointing experience.

Tracy and Jan are extremely rude, with horrible communication skills, who use their size to intimidate smaller straight people. Turned down our guests claiming that they had " no capacity"

Campgrounds were neat and clean. Easy access to the lake for swimming. We had an excellent time. The first night the bathrooms were gross, the next morning spotless clean. Also the skunks are very brave and came right into the campsite while we were sitting at night. I would go back.

Water is high! Lots of parking and big launch. No store or bathrooms. Portable toilets were pretty gross and the handwashing station was a mess. The staff at the front are super friendly. It is really a beautiful place.

This place has gone down hill now corporate owned by some company out of Arizona. Horrible customer service. Pretty proud of a place that letteraly only offers a dirt spot with zero amenities. Our group had to cancel due to extreme temperatures over Labor Day weekend. You cannot run generators after 10pm so we would literally be suffering from heat illness without AC. Since we cancelled inside thier 14 day cancelllaton policy, they took all of our money without any offer to re book. When you call the 800 number to the resort, you get a corporate operator that could care less of the issue. I was told 3 times they would have Steele Canyon contact me about the issue and I never heard a word.This place is a JOKE..total waste. Used to be pretty awesome back when there were amenities. All long gone.Do yourself a favor and skip this place!There are far better options around the area.

To call this place horrendous would be a compliment. Let's start by the highlight of the camping trip. We unfortunately got to the campground around 7:45pm on a Thursday and the gate was locked. To our surprise, this is variable dependent on how the staff feels. The contract does state that the campground closes for entry anywhere between 4-7pm, but they also have been flexible in the past. Their star employee, Cindy, answered the after hours phone and was extremely rude! This lazy woman simply said "sorry, pull over on the side of the road and wait until 7am I'm not letting you in."I understand rules, I understand the need to close gates at the end of the night, but come on, this campground generates thousands of dollars a month from year round camping. Upgrade your system! People travel from all over to visit your camp, and to add to that outdated technology at the front desk, you add an extremely unpleasant woman to "assist" customers, making the whole experience awful. We turned around and unfortunately had to wait until the next night to get in. To our surprise, they had the gates open til 9pm! If Cindy wants to throw the contract we signed in our face then adhere to the rules 100% rather than being flexible when you feel like it. In addition, campsites are FILTHY!!! We were in the 28-26 campsites, and every single site in our group had an incredible amount of nails. They should get Cindy out there to clean up sites instead of sitting glamorously at the front desk being a putrid woman to customers. If you don't like your job, leave!Finally, the boat launch area is very easy and one of the better ones in the area. No water available, unless you drive a ways up into the campsite. My advice, look elsewhere!

Here's my disappointment. The cost does not justify the stay. Sun outdoors recently acquired this campground. And are now charging sun outdoors prices. I've stayed at other sun outdoor rv resorts and they are well kept. So at those places I'll pay the premium. But don't charge premium for a dry, no amenities campground. Once the campground starts being developed then charge more. But in the meantime when you haven't done anything to the campground keep the prices at what the campground is worth. And the new woman at the gate is super rude. I do miss the old berryessa. Such a disappointment

This was our first time visiting the lake, as we were staying over the weekend for the Lake Berryessa swim. We arrived Thursday, and All and all the campsite was ok- super barren with very little shade, lots of trash, and run down picnic tables. Unfortunately there was a fire ban put in place the day we headed up so we were unaware that we wouldn't be able to cook anything (we ended up having to drive back to town for cold and no perishable food Irene's to keep us going over the trip). While this is certainly not anyones fault, a more updated website would be much appreciated, as there was also a huge lack of information about areas we could swim, boat, etc. and the paper map given at the front was very basic. I highly recommend coming early to set up camp because it's really hard to read some of the numbers painted on the grills to tell which campsite is which. Got super busy Friday night with lots of noisy rvs, and unfortunately a lot of them didn't follow the guidelines about quiet hours. (I don't mind mild noise and music passed midnight as everyone is just trying to have a good vacation, but there was blasting music and yelling well into the wee hours.) I will be back next year for the same swim, but will definitely look into a camper van as the campsites are very, very dry and dusty and without shade, making it kind of miserable during peak heat hours.

This is not my first or second visit I stay very close to this boat launch but would much rather travel to Pleasure or Marley Coves; Despite staying less than 1 mile away. I understand that the area is under new management. The first step is to provide some training to the lady at the gate, I was unable to even get her name because she was very rude and dismissive. I am sure I am not the only individual she has treated this way. Hopefully with the proposed new redevelopment staff changes will occur. No one wants a bad experience when there out for pleasure!