Affleck Campground
Reviewed Jun. 23, 2022

Quiet, but cumbersome gate

This was a nice little campground: quiet, clean bathrooms, a creek running through the back of our site. I like how far apart the sites are, and the creek masked the nighttime noises that tend to keep me awake.

There is a good trail accessible from one end of the campground, though it would be good to have better indicators of where we could park when not in our site.

I would love to come back here again; the gate, however, was a dealbreaker. It was incredibly cold and raining our first morning there (no rain in the forecast when we'd booked two days earlier), so I drove out to cell service range to check the day's forecast. To do that, I had to deal with the gate.

Unlocking, re-latching, and then locking it again was an ordeal, especially with frozen fingers in the rain. There's a cap over the latch, but the piece that slides out was stuck. I had to get at it from below.

The next time I came through, it slid away just fine. I don't know if someone stronger had gotten at it, or if the warmer and drier weather did it. Even with that improvement, it was still a huge pain in the rear. The latch kept wanting to fall back into the gate, so with two hands you have to do three things: hold the latch in place, hold the lock apart, and then slide it through the hole in the latch. All with the chain in the way.

Fix the gate situation, and this would be five stars.

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  • Review photo of Affleck Campground by Naomi W., June 23, 2022
  • Review photo of Affleck Campground by Naomi W., June 23, 2022
  • Review photo of Affleck Campground by Naomi W., June 23, 2022