Lakeside RV Campground

Only good thing about the camp is their mature trees and a hot shower. As we drove in there were huge clouds of mosquitos by the street lamps. Our spot incredibly tight and the entire camp packed in like sardines. No lake in sight! At $63 a complete rip off.

Lakeside was our home for 3 nights while we were in town for Provo’s annual Colonial Festival. I really loved the proximity of this campground to Provo City—12mins to downtown, and the incredible tree coverage here. This campground is beautifully shaded and quite enjoyable for spending time outside on the grounds—even in July.

Across Center St. and behind a field is Provo Airport which is home to (I think,) smaller aircraft as they are audible from the campgrounds, though not excessive. To the west of the campground, separated by a fence is the Lakeside Storage Facility that houses a TON of petrol signs, gadgets & a few vehicles— a free, outdoor museum of gas station memorabilia from a different time. The north side of the campground is surrounded by a quite large river that you can access by a hiking over a large dirt berm. Although this area beside the river is not maintained by the campground, there are stairs in one spot and a couple of foot trails that can take you to the top of the berm. Here you’ll be able to walk along a narrow trail along the river, nearly across the entire north side of the grounds.

This campground is VERY tight knit, as most of the spots don’t have much of a yard and if you have slides you need to be careful not to hit anything. I feel we got the worst site on the grounds— J1. Our 30’ rig hardly fit in the spot and made it difficult to park our truck every day as well as making it difficult for vehicles to pull their rigs behind our spot, squeezing behind our trailer bumper and the fenced dog run. Our yard was also the smallest there, about 2’ at the widest point, narrowing to points at each end. This pull-through spot was the worst part of our experience, but I would definitely like to return.

The front office staff is incredibly kind and accommodating. I’m fairly certain that we could have swapped our spot if we had asked to do so. We used the dog run & playground nearly everyday and stopped by the pool and store a couple of times. This campground seems very well cared-for and was so enjoyable to us that we would return—however next time, we would attempt to reserve a specific spot rather than take the chance at once again landing on J1. All of the sites on the north side of the grounds (purple back-in,) looked wonderful; shaded & quiet, and a few of the sites in the east/ middle side of the grounds like B12 looked wonderful. Most of the end sites in the middle of the campground had a much more enjoyable yard-area. Had we not booked so near Independence Day, we may have been able to request one of these more “premium” sites.

I think we’d like to camp here again when we have friends or family camping with us, we can request a larger site and spend some wonderful summer evenings under the huge shade trees.

First of all, the lake isn't anywhere close to this campground. It's a half mile up the road, so don't think you're going to get lake views.

Secondly at $54 a night, I would have expected a lot more than I got. It's just your average, run of the mill campground with a lot of long term trailers, everything is gravel, except for the places where it's muddy. The sites were so close together, that I had to go back and request a different site. My slides would have been a foot from the next door neighbor.

The bathrooms were clean, but very dark and dated. Good thing I'm not overweight, or I would never have fit in the showers.

Finally, if you are an aviation fan, you'll love it. It sits at the end of the runway for Provo airport, a regional airport with plenty of jets (Yes, JETS. Think Delta, Southwest, American) that pass right overhead a mere 1000 feet up. Thunderous, trailer shaking fun!

All in all, it was tolerable for a couple night stay. Probably would not be back. If it was 30 bucks a night, it would have been more reasonable.

The Provo river trail is nearby, one shining spot in an otherwise awesomely mediocre stay.