We love Lassen and Manzanita Lake is beautiful. So this review doesn’t reflect on the park itself.
We have typically stayed in the cabins which is a great experience so that is also not part of this review.
This time we opted to tent camp and we ended up leaving halfway into our stay because the group next to us was loud, drunk and playing loud music and talking loudly about inappropriate things late into the night and this happened for three days until we just decided to leave.
We have a young child and their were lots of families there and one of them got upset and left as well.
It ruined what would have been a great experience for us. Feeing frustrated about it because having more ranger presence and a camp host could have easily mitigated this behavior that is largely considered rude and unacceptable in a public space.
My husband drove around for awhile looking for a ranger or camp host and no one was available to supervise or talk to. In fact we tried again in the morning and no one at the camp store knew who to report the behavior to.
We’ve been camping many times and we have never experienced such poor oversight. It’s no wonder people who want to party come to the tent sites at Lassen. If you don’t care about enjoying the natural environment around you and just want to party and get wasted come to the tent sites here.
If you’re going to come to Lassen to actually enjoy the beautiful environment either go to the cabins or camp just outside the park in one of the less crowded areas.