My wife said that I should be brutally honest when rating this campground, so I will. First, we are not newbies at camping. We have spent over 200 nights in campgrounds in the past 3 years, so this was not our first trip, nor will it be our last. But it will be our last at Cedar Ridge Campground. For the pros, I must say that after 11PM, the campground was extremely quiet and stayed that way until around 8AM. No highway noise, no trains, no loud music, no parties. The swimming pool looked nice but we didn’t use it. And the site where we were was quite large and level. But unfortunately, that’s all the good.
The cons are many so here are a few…the road into the campground is a mess. You can’t get there if you are traveling south on River Road due to the sharp turn, you MUST be northbound. Then the steep hill, then the sharp right turn at the top of the hill (don’t forget to sound your horn as the sign states), then down the other side, then the potholes, then past the disgusting dumpster/trash area and first bath house to the office. Since we didn’t opt for a sewer connection, we used the bath house once, and that was it. They were extremely dirty; no, gross would be a better description. We don’t think they had been cleaned in ages. The pavilions were falling apart, the lake was covered in green algae, cobwebs everywhere on the buildings, and some of the trees near our site had vines growing on them, which turned out to be poison ivy. During our stay, we saw no maintenance being done. It is a shame, as with some hard work and investing some money, one day this could be a nice campground.