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Michael

3 years ago
4/5

This is a primitive campground and used to be a popular picnic spot. We used to fish off the end of the ferry after it closed for the night. However, since the removal of the lock and dam downstream, the water level has fallen an average of 12 feet, leaving only a trickle that probably isn’t deep enough for a fish to swim in! The road across the river has disappeared into the wilderness with just the ramp still showing. Even the streetlights have been turned off making it pitch black at night. The tightly packed sites are okay if you don’t mind being a few feet from your neighbor. Each site had a pure pit with grill grate, a concrete picnic table, a lantern hook, and a camp stove table. There is a potable water tap on site. No host is in attendance nowadays. It’s all rather sad to see the decay. The pit toilets were filthy with excrement almost reaching the seats. I can’t understand why the fee is $20 still since the National Park Service obviously doesn’t take serious care of the place or at least not on the weekend I most recently stayed there. . That all being said, despite the close proximity of the sites, it is still a beautiful place to relax. At night, the once quiet river is now a babbling brook.

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