Review: Black River Camping at Horse Shoe Ranch

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Vanessa Scholl

1 year ago
4/5

This was our first time camping in that area. Let me start with the pros: The river is beautiful, location of the camp ground is great. Staff was cordial, security vehicle was coming often to check on things around camp and we felt safe, we did not have a problem with people talking loud late at night or during the night or loud music which was nice to have a good night of sleep. The Crowd on the camp seemed to be more family oriented which was a plus.

Cons: We float on a Saturday , it was one of the hottest day of the year. I have never seen so many people floating in a river like this. There were hundreds if not tousands of people this past weekend. The rafts and canoes kept bumping on each other (yes it was that crowded!) The crowd on the river this past saturday was rowdy . Extremnely amout of cussing, drinking, smoking (weed specially) and littering (which we had a bag and pick up after some garbage that was left behind on the river). If you have small children try to avoid weekends... the crowd was very disapointing. Some of the behavior we saw was very innapropriete specially in front of small children.

The only complain about the camp ground was the bathrooms , I choose these place because of their reviews on how clean their bathrooms were. The portable pottys were very dirty and the regular bathroom and shower house were also very very dirty. Toilet paper had run out . it was discussing.

During the float lauch there was a bit of confusion. The young man in charge was upset because they had overbooked the canoes and there was not enough canoes for a group in front of us. It seemed a bit desorganized but we got on the river eventually. They also seemed understaffed for the amout of people they had on their camp this past saturday.

On the side note, they are building new bathrooms in the property which will probably help the bathroom situation (hopefully) .

I will give them another shot...but next time, during the week.

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