LOGE Mt Shasta

Not a campground at all. It’s a hotel where they dumped gravel in the parking and erected goat pens for people to sleep in. 

No toilet paper or hand towels in the bathroom. All services were closed. No bar. No coffee. No rentals. The only shade is in your goat pen. 

The goat pen comes with a picnic table and two plastic Adirondack chairs. 

I’m camping alone so I had to move a picnic table by myself in order to set up my tent. On gravel mind you. The website shows an elevated platform. Not the case. It’s gravel. Big gravel. Hard tent piercing sharp gravel. Gravel. 

A car was parked in front of my “campsite”. 

Annoyed and exasperated in 100° weather and no one on staff to talk to I left. It’s June. Nothing is available last minute. I drank a local margarita and decided to suck it up 

The only fire pit was communal. Do not expect privacy. There are goat pens packed in right next to each other. You can hear everyone’s conversations. 

I felt obnoxious as I filled my air mattress due to the noise it made. 

Expect road noise and train noise. All night. 

Pros: the shower. 

Cons: literally everything else.

We are a professional and adventurous couple in our late 50s/ early 60s who have been working our way down the snowy volcanic Cascades to Mt Shasta.  We're new to the van life, having lived mostly overseas, and are not RV-oriented, so we've been a little careful about choosing sites with adequate peacefulness, space and privacy. We figured that after a week out, we'd be ready for human company, especially a younger crowd. Loge at Mt Shasta was a great place to overnight (a Sunday night in May was really peaceful, with only two other sets of campers) and is a relaxed place as a base camp for the southwest flank of Mt Shasta. The 'Loge' is in active development and promises to be a happening place by summertime. It has great hot showers, a communal and shady relaxation area with a live-music venue (quiet when we were there), and friendly and responsive, although not overly wide-awake hosts. We parked our rented Cabana van of 19'8" back-in to the wooden cubicles and therefore had a reasonably private space with 2 Adirondack chairs and a picnic table. Well positioned (if you have wheels, anyway) for a drive up Shasta to about 7800' on the Everitt Highway - https://hikemtshasta.com/tag/everitt-memorial-highway/.   We did meet a guy who had successfully hitchhiked up there, too from town.  We'd recommend a laundry facility and a screened clothesline to make the site more functional for adventurers.  Also, nobody had cleaned our site before we arrived, and we had to ask the young manager for some cleaning solvents to remove dark greasy smears on our picnic table - not the best in a pandemic, but he was really responsive and got me something to clean it right away (and offered to do it himself).