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Miner’s Camp RV Park (Long-Term stay available) is nestled in the hillside and sits above the campgrounds. This park can be rented for up to 14 days or six months and is a short walk away from basketball, volleyball, and tennis courts. There are no fire rings available inside Miner’s Camp.
Miner’s Camp RV Campground is located off of Bret Harte Drive close to the tennis and basketball courts
Short walk or ride to beaches, marina, store, or amphitheater
Long terms stay are 6 months at a time-10 day out before return
All sites are full hookups featuring 30-50 amp electrical service, picnic tables, and can accommodate up to 55′ long.
Showers and laundry facilities are located nearby. All RV’s staying within Monument and Miner’s Camp must be self-contained. Self-contained RV’s may also camp at North Shore. We also feature 20 undeveloped primitive sites (on-water) that can accommodate a tent or a self-contained RV.
I did enjoy staying here and had fun, but there were some issues that I had to adapt and actively ignore in order to make the most of the trip. First the good, the area is beautiful if you enjoy California Central Valley scenery, which I do. The lake was wonderful, and even with a packed beach, the fellow beachgoers were fun and friendly, and most of our neighbors were friendly. The bad, we got a pull-thru, which ended up being a bad idea. On one side were back-ins, the other, pull-thrus with a narrow road and a single turnaround spot at the end of the road. This is all fine, except, multiple guests of our back-in neighbors parked in our campsite without even asking, and someone parked a boat trailer in the middle of the single turn-around area for the entire weekend. Now this worked out fine for us, but we were literally unable to leave until after they left and we had to position our cars to block off part of our campsites so we could have room to hook back up and drive away the morning we were leaving. This didn't stop someone from parking up against our picknick table for long enough to cause a small panic the morning we left, luckily, they did leave before we had to. We were actually unable to even pull in until someone moved their car when we arrived, and this appears to be the standard accepted thing based on how many cars were parked in pull-thru spots and how close they parked to our rig on an obvious campsite. We also did confirm at the gate that they were not going to charge us for extra cars, which was another concern. None of this would have been a problem if we had a back-in site, so keep that in mind if you plan to leave a different day than everyone else, you will literally be trapped in your higher cost pull-thru spot. The other issue is that the roads aren't well marked and google maps will lead you astray, one of our group members took the wrong road and had to do a full-on repair to his RV because the other road was too small to turn around safely. Overall, I would consider coming here again, but I probably wouldn't unless I was in a group as the stress of being trapped was very uncomfortable.
