Which Campground Will You Never Go Back To

toedtoes wrote:
I do a lot of research when picking new campgrounds, so I can honestly say there isn't a one to which I wouldn't return. However, there are many that I wouldn't choose to go to in the first place.

We've never stayed at a cg where we cut the trip short. But there were one or two where we said "That was OK, but let's not stay here again."

Paradise Lakes in Hammonton, NJ. Used to be great years ago.Last time I passed thru...a garbage dump.

Don't remember the name of the campground in the lower peninsula of Michigan. Rude Host sites were so small you could shake hands with your neighbor on either side. Nothing about that trip was worth remembering.

I do a lot of research when picking new campgrounds, so I can honestly say there isn't a one to which I wouldn't return. However, there are many that I wouldn't choose to go to in the first place.

Pirate wrote:
I have been to many, but there is really only one I will never go back to, Candy Hill in Winchester, VA. This is not a bash on them, just curious as to others black listed places.

For the record Candy Hill is one of my least favorite places as well.

Sitting Bull campground in the Bighorn National Forest.

It has adjacent ATV trails, and people with ATVs are constantly running them in the campground, at reckless speeds and deafening noise levels. They all seem to have dogs who bark constantly, too.

The camp host was one of the worst offenders.

All that is a shame, because this is an otherwise lovely campground in a beautiful setting.

IME this is typical of campgrounds near ATV trails.

Lake Wenatchee State CG in Washington state.
It was one of our favorites. We stayed there several times a year.
Then they cut down all the (healthy) trees and all there was is mud and now, weeds.
Absolutely ruined.

Baersfield Palms Resort(now known as Desert Palms Mobile Home & RV) - Gunshots off and on all night, almost constant sirens, train track nearby with trains coupling and uncoupling all night long.

And this may be hard to believe, but Wawona in Yosemite. Combined with while I've never stayed there, will never stay in Pines in Yosemite because it's too crowded and everything around it is too crowded. (Don't take this wrong, I'll be going back to Yosemite, but will definitely stay in one of the remote campgrounds.)

A campground in Martha's Vineyard named...Cranberry Acres(?).

Lets see there was the medivac called in to take a teenie bopper couple off island to deal with a severe case of poison ivy since they decided to do it not in the road but in a horse pasture just before you turned into the campground. I always wondered how they 'splained that to their parents.

And thennnnn there was the time the local constabulary came after complaints about the cloud of pot smoke that seemed to envelope parts of the campground.

Finally, some poor fool tried to fill his white gas lantern in the tent AND light it and the tent poofed into flames. He only had 2nd degree burns so that was fortunate.

Told the then husband we needed to rent a cottage or find a different place to camp.

We switched to another campground near the airport where families in RVs gathered but we had a hard time dealing with the AstroTurf and gnomes for a bit so we started camping on Cape Cod.

Lucerne Campground at Flaming Gorge. The only time I can ever remember leaving a trip early. Campground itself wasn't great - a high desert wasteland. What was much worse was that the campground hosts were TERRIBLE.