Campsite #13 at Lewis At French Meadows Campground, CA

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Campsite #13

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Drive-In 6 people
44 ft Back-in
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Campsite #13 Features: Drive-In access, Back-in parking, 44ft driveway, Food Storage Locker, Picnic Table, RV Site, Tent Site, Trailer Site, Pets Allowed

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@PatriciaC59210 · Camped on Aug 2, 2024 at Campsite #13
We had a pleasant camping experience. Our campsite was close to the bathroom, trash bin, and water spigot, #11. With kids in tow that was important. Of course we could get sporadic gusts of wind that reminded us we were close to the bathrooms :) The bathrooms did run out of toilet paper. Thankfully we brought our own to use. Campsite's were spacious but not all the tent areas were flat. Our sleeping bags were sliding off the cots all night because of the angle. The campsite was a bit of a drive to the water area, and you could unload your beach gear at the boat launch area but then had to park the car up the hill and walk back down. The Lewis campground side of the reservoir was all rocks, no sand. Not a fun area for the kids to play in. And you couldnt let the kids play on the flat boat launch area for safety reasons of course. The park rangers told our kids they had to be 30 yards from the boat launch area. But having to walk 30 yards over rocks and boulders is not easy. If you wanted a sandy beach I guess you had to drive around to the French Meadows campground area. It was also very windy so we couldnt put up an umbrella. Not sure if it was just that day or if its windy all the time. Besides the rocky beach, and the wind, Lewis at French Meadows was a nice place to camp for the weekend.
@AlondraC449 · Camped on Aug 29, 2020 at Campsite #13
It is a small quiet campground. There are 2 boat ramps near. We ended up going to the french meadows boat ramp to unload our canoe. This was our first camping trip with our canoe so we chose Lewis at French Meadows because of the reservoir. The reservoir can get windy so we did some hard paddling but nothing 2 girls could not handle. Would recommend going early or later in the day if you do not want to go up against the wind like us. The campground itself has well maintained restroom and friendly host. My one minor complain was that the previous occupant threw trash (bottle cans/cigarette buds) in the fight pit. Please do not do this!! It's ghetto. We also did not have neighbors as site 13 has no neighbors on one side and our neighbors on the other side did not show. I would also recommend site 13 for smaller suvs/sedans as the parking site is long but it curves so if you have a longer car u might be on an incline/decline. We took the road from auburn and even though you can see the cliff for some parts it was not that bad considering we were carrying a 16' canoe on our small pt cruiser.

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