I've been coming here for over 30yrs during the week of my mother's birthday in July and it used to be wonderful. I just came back early from a camping trip here. We got there and it was great....for one day. Only one other camper, very quiet. On the 2nd day a large family group came in and the first thing the patriarch did was to try to get us to leave because we were in their spot. We are talking about 30 people in his family.
3rd day, from about 9-11am, over 500 rounds of ammunition were being shot by this family. Sounded like a war zone. I couldn't let my kids go hiking because they were shooting near the trails. Never saw a ranger or anything. No camp host to call in that stuff. Pretty illegal in the national forest.
4th day a larger trailer parks right next to us and says about 20 more are coming. The campsites they took we're right on top of us. They also came and told us that they always camp in this spot and tried to get us to move. Then they just kept coming closer and closer to our campsite, to within 5ft of my tent all day long. They also thought chopping wood one foot from my lantern and 3 ft from my tent was okay. They were the most awful people I've ever camped beside. They straight-up harassed us out on my Mom's birthday. So be warned. So, very disappointing. Oh and by the way, my family has been camping at that same campsite (that we were driven out of) since I was about 9...or about 32yrs every year for my mom's birthday.