Modoc - J Strom Thurmond Lake
Amelia F.
Reviewed May. 23, 2021

Beautiful but horrible

Absolutely the worst camping experience we have ever had! We have camped all over this beautiful country in all types of campgrounds from ones with full services to dispersed/primitive areas and everything in between and have never experienced such horrible conditions and staff. The couple that “runs” the place are very sweet but do not monitor the park at all, they don’t clean the bathrooms and showers and the women’s showers had no hot water. We had at least two dozen people at the site next to us who stayed up till 2 am both nights we were there and despite us informing the front office after the first night they still never came by to enforce any quiet time or parking issues etc. We should not have to call police on people and risk being targeted for something that is their JOB. But instead the drunk neighbors decided to report us for leaving our teenage son at the site to fish while we took our younger son to ride his bike. The park ranger Suzanne (not the camp hosts) came down when we retuned to the site to question us about the age of our son and lied to us saying she had been down patrolling and noticed he was alone. She was aggressive from the moment she entered our site then demanded that I control my dogs who were on leashes and only barked when she continued to be aggressive, they were not aggressive towards her or anyone else at any time. She then insisted that we never reported the ongoing disturbances with the neighbors to anyone (we reported it to both the husband and wife on two separate occasions and had even asked to move sites) and that we were the problem and needed to leave immediately. We agreed that we did not want to stay anyways and began packing up, as we were leaving we stopped at the front to check out and return the car tag and then the ranger pulled up behind us there and was aggressive again. We simply were trying to enjoy a weekend with our family and dogs at the lake but it’s obvious we came to the wrong place.

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