RangerKnoll Lake Campground
Family friendly camping among Ponderosa pines.
You will travel over 11 miles of dirt road to get here. Most of it is pretty easy with a few rougher spots here and there. The roads in are well marked. This is a fee area run by the forest service. The fees are cash only-no recreation.gov app use available. I read before I went that there was an issue with the water so I brought plenty. There was signage at the spigots explaining what was going on. I'm glad I brought my own! The campground itself is small but the sites are good sized and well spaced. Plus the thick forest provides a decent amount of privacy. The bathrooms are vault toilets, no showers. There are tables, fire rings & BBQs at each site. There were bear boxes in some sites-I don't know why they weren't in all sites-but there was no evidence of bears passing through. Quiet hours were observed and the hosts were on top of things. There is a footpath from the campground to the lake, roughly 1/2 mile, and of course you can drive down to it. There was no real beach at the lake that I could see, no one was swimming, but there were shaded picnic tables & a bathroom available. Lots of fishing, kayaking, paddle boarding though. Note-no gasoline powered boats are allowed on the lake.
