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Tule Campground is located at Success Lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills just 8 miles east of Porterville, California. A variety of outdoor recreational activities abound, including boating, kayaking and fishing. Recreation The lake provides great opportunities for boating and swimming. Kayaking the lake's quiet, unpopulated coves is a favorite activity. Anglers fish for bass, crappie, catfish, bluegill and the occasional trout. Facilities The campground is open year round and offers 103 sites, several of which have electric hookups. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station are provided. Playgrounds and boat ramps are located on-site. Campfire programs are presented at the amphitheater on Saturdays from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend. Campground gates are closed from 10p.m. to 6 a.m. Natural Features Success Lake, when full, covers 82,500 acre-feet of water with a surface area of 2,450 acres. One acre-foot is equal to 325,872 gallons of water! The campground sits on the northeastern shore of the lake, in an area dotted with sparse stands of trees. Shade is limited, but springtime wildflowers bloom on the surrounding foothills, creating a beautiful display of color. ADA Access: N
Take state highway 99, to east on Hwy 190 for 25 miles until you arrive to campground enterance. Please follow the signs.
Went during Thanksgiving 2022 and this place was very clean and lovely. The showers are awesome and the restrooms are good, just bring wipes & soap! The lake was pretty low but fishing was great! The only downside is if you plan to go to the forest, most of it has been burned but there are still lots of nearby sequoia groves worth visiting!
This place should only be used as a last resort for those wanting to visit Sequoia NP if they can't get anything closer. The NP is around an hour and a half away, and the national forest is probably the same, but worse roads. One of the nights that we were coming back to the campsite from the park, they decided to close the gates at night, so we had to park farther from our site and walk with stuff! The bathrooms were pretty dirty too and no hot water for the shower.
The view, especially at sunset, is beautiful. The marina has good service and prices. The camp is hot and sunny. Not all sites have water/electric, seems like the sites that do are full sun. The bathrooms while we stayed were a mess. I had to remove hair and bandaid clog from shower, scooted it over and it never got removed from the shower for the three days I was there. It seemed like the toilets were occasionally serviced...but the trash was never taken out. Garbage cans only at entrance of camp....which is a long walk when you just need to dump the doggy doo bag. It was drought season when we went so minimal green space, lots of thorny weeds. Would we stay again? Maybe, but I'd probably look around first
The camp host IS a Karen! She think she owns the campground. Talks to guest disrespectfully. Yelled at my kids for climbing a tree. I think she been here to long and needs to be replaced with someone with more communication skilles. She just drive around her white truck telling guest negative things. Very unpleasant experience I dont recommend staying here unless she leaves !
Served its purpose. Campground itself is nothing special. Good views of the mountains & "lake". The grounds themselves are not well kept & our campsite was full of trash & goat head stickers. Neighboring campsite pulled out mid-afternoon & left their campfire roaring. Sunday afternoon, and there was no one on site, so we put it out. No cell service, TV channels, and our Hotspot didn't get signal.
Bright spot was the playgrounds. Kids loved them, but they could use some upkeep.
Not much nearby, and Porterville is not very pleasant. Just all around pretty meh.
