Gifford Pinchot National Forest Horseshoe Lake Campground

I’ve seen plenty of good reviews about the camp host at horseshoe lake but i will not be writing one of them. I didn’t catch her name but she drives a white nissan truck. the camp host completely ruined our weekend with her overbearing attitude, and complete lack of respect for our personal space and things. 

one of our buddies went on a beer run while we went down to the river and left our old dog calmly laying on a rug in the shade at our site. he was leashed, had water and was completely fine. he’s a senior dog who just likes to relax and even prefers sleeping outside at home. she came to our campsite while we were gone and claimed he was “scared for his life” when it reality he was probably barking because a total stranger is walking up to him. 

this part blew my mind, she wrote us a ticket for an “unattended fire” when there was NO fire burning, a fire wasn’t even started that day. but she took it upon herself to dump out our water and the dogs water (that she cared so much about) onto the fire pit, completely soaking it and making it harder for us to build a fire that night. 

on top of that, she even admitted to pretty much making herself at home and hanging out at our campsite while we were not there. she flipped over one if our chairs upside down and got it all muddy with the water she spilt everywhere, took one of our only trash bags we had that was hanging on our canopy, barely  used it, had no food in it, just some empty water bottles. 

it did not stop there, she kept hovering around our campsite constantly checking on us throughout the weekend. it honestly felt like harassment, we didn’t feel welcome or comfortable the rest of the trip. she was COMPLETELY out of line for just hanging out at our campsite while we were gone, touching,  and moving our personal belongings without invitation or permission