The campground is open and crowded and has hard, gravelly pads that make for uncomfortable tenting and necessitate the use of a sledgehammer to drive in tent pegs (nails). The facilities are glum and none too clean. It is expensive ($11). Massed, hungry mosquitoes attack you constantly, and raccoons squabble on the lawns.

The evening we were there, a B52 bomber flew overhead at an altitutude of about 1000ft. The man at the next pad stared at us continuously for at least two hours. Microcephalic idiots played loud and awful music until midnight.

But worst of all, at 5.00am, yes...5.00am, a man on a power mower began to mow the grass on the adjacent golf course. I leaped up to discover that he worked for the Park Service and was so engaged because "This is the only time that are no golfers around".

So 200-odd campers get woken up in the middle of the night to accommodate the perversions of a few sanguinary golfers who can't sleep.

The laughingly entited "Quiet Hours" on this campground, as at all State Parks, are 10pm to 6.30am. We were furious, got up and left and have applied for a refund.

Sadly, this campground is in a spectacular setting, and is the nearest to Lenore Lake.

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