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A great place for night fishing. Catfish, bass, perch and BIG crappie! I set up camp to fish here and slept at the motel in town. The way to go if you ask me. Watch your step at the docks. Specially at night. They need repair. But you can fish from them! Just wonderful staff, very helpful. This is a perfect fishing campground and the prices are just great. It just needs repairs for safety, but otherwise, I would give it a perfect score.
Had a blast and this is a great place. Love the park except the spots are all pretty uneven. So you want to go with some sort of things that you can park your trailer on to help make it set even.
God bless the persons who designed and built this park, such that they can use these missed opportunities to do better in the future.
The reality of this camping area felt like that of a procrastinated high schooler's design or maybe a half-hearted attempt of a eagle scout project.
To begin, half of the campsites (top row) have no handicap accessibility, requiring visitors to clamber up concrete barriers from the parking lot or walk 40 yards up a grassy hill.
One of the reasons we chose to spend money on a campsite was due to the showers. We were dismayed to find upon arrival they were two dollars for ten minutes, but even worse, they seemed to use unfiltered lake water, making the shower stalls smell fishy and very unhygienic. I'm concerned about contracting eye infection after using it.
The restrooms themselves were not well maintained, and contained a single toilet and sink in a space which could easily accommodate two stalls at the least.
The campsite itself was not flat, nor were there trees enough for hammocking, being either too small or too far apart to be appropriate. The landscaping timbers were loose, creating a tripping hazard.
I wouldn't be so dismayed by this experience except for the fact that the fee was $16 for an overnight stay. This is a county park who's primary draw is boaters and anglers, people who are paying similarly exorbitant fees to use the lake and facilities. Even if the funding from the lake users is insufficient to maintain the standards of quality, it seems that the facilities should be receiving funding and attention from the local DNR or Parks department, in order to bring it to the standards that I enjoyed in the rest of my experiences throughout the state of Oregon.
If you want to be amazed by how lackluster and poorly planned a park can be, come to Hewitt Park.
Love the park and the staff are super friendly and go out of their way to make your stay fun. Some great campsites and some smaller sites that are hard to get to. Beautiful country and sitting lakeside with a campfire is my happy place. Not a place to camp if you are opposed to packing your gear a little ways . Fishing can be off the hook good at times.
Great fishing for cat fish, crappie, and bass. Camp sites are nice, rv sites are big but all open no shade. Staff is friendly grounds are clean. Only negative is the bathrooms could use some real cleaning.
