Bunganut Lake Camping Area

We took our daughter and her family camping here because it was within 45 minutes of our home and the grandkids are youngish. The kids loved the beach and the chickens. Our two sites were on the hill down to the beach area. We weren’t too impressed by the person who checked us in. She didn’t seem too happy to see us and motored off quickly in her golf cart right afterwards. They did a lot of fast golf cart roaming.

Our sites were fine and sufficiently large to hold both tent and screen room (mosquitos and flies kept mostly at bay). Each site included a picnic table and a stone fireplace (versus a firepit with stones on all sides. There is a little store with food, etc.

They have canoes and kayaks for rent. The lake is very nice. They told me we could bring our own kayaks next time. Unfortunately we had to leave a day early because my son-in-law became very ill the first night and had to go to the hospital.

Very nice little campground! Has a dock and swimming area, clean bathrooms and showers are a little bit of a hike uphill from the beach area.

My husband and I wanted to try out a camping spot semi- close to our house for our first trip with our dog (in case he didn’t enjoy the tent lifestyle). We reserved a spot at Bunganut for three nights over Memorial Day weekend. We knew there would be a pretty full house, but this was insanity.  The camping sites are very close together, which made it feel incredibly crowded. Kids were screaming and running around everywhere, including back and forth like squirrels across the road within the campground.  Check in was easy, we did have to show proof of our dog’s rabies vaccination. We received a paper map with directions to our spot. Once we found our site, we saw that it was on a plateau of sorts, with a steep driveway up to the tent pad. As we started to awkwardly back up the driveway, we were immediately stopped by a woman in a golf cart who demanded to see our parking hang tags for our cars. She wasn’t very pleasant about it either, even when we said this was our first time to the campground and didn’t know all the protocols yet.  Long story short (ish), we ended up eating the reservation fee and going home. We knew we weren’t going to enjoy ourselves, since the campground was so very crowded and loud. Not peaceful at all.