Bankhead/Clear Creek

Odie Penny

OK Park, I guess. Showed up in the middle of a beautiful Thursday in May and had to pay $10 to look around. Only one other car in the entire day use area. Twice as many staff as patrons. Bathrooms were locked and all water was still turned off. Never been too impressed with the management of Forest Service sites with or without improvements.

David Kloss

Great park. Nice big lake. Great camp sites. Electric. Big rigs . Bathroom ok . Shower ok.

Carlin Austin

Beautiful scenery. When we checked in, we were not made aware of any bathrooms locked on the campsite. Went to 3 different pavilions with bathrooms with guests that had feminine issues to take care of. They were all locked without notice. Then when we called the front. The one restroom they said was open in the whole park had NO TOILET PAPER, toilets were clogged, no soap, and the hand dryer wasn’t working. Do a little better. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the need to close multiple restrooms on a public park. Especially people with kids knowing the last thing you want them to do is to pop a squat on a public campground right beside a restroom that could easily have been accessible if it wasn’t for the staff.

Kevin Armstrong

I was fortunate enough to “have to” spend a week at Clear Creek Recreation Area while waiting for my truck to get repaired. Loved the place! Hiked, kayaked, mountain biked, swam, and napped my way through the week. Ok, and worked some, too, although cell signal can be spotty. Tammy, Barbara, and the rest of the crew were very accommodating. (Special thanks to Bruce for moving my camper for me on his weekend off!) The camping and day use areas were tidy.

Stephanie Towater

Nice campground, swimming & fishing lake. We did not like the timed showers. They click off ever 6 seconds. Hard to push in. If you got a lot of hair this is a bad deal. Clean bathrooms, lovely area.

Teresa Ellard

Very nice relaxing campground. Great bike trail so bring your bikes! Water sites are nicer but any site is still good.

Michael Butler

I would like to give this place an excellent rating. Unfortunately one of the park hosts has completely ruined this place for us. She was constantly watching our campsite and giving us warnings for every single issue she could find. For example we had one tire off the asphalt in the dirt. We woke up to a warning on our truck. Another time I was loading stuff into my car to leave for work and as soon as I walked inside to get my backpack she came to tell me that I absolutely must move my car right this instant, it was blocking the road that had maybe one car per hour. I'll not be staying here again nor will any of the other campers that came with us.

Cindy Garrett

Myself and my 2 kids, and my niece and her husband all went and we had a blast. It's a great place to pack a picnic and take the kids to swim. It wasnt that crowded. And it's a clean, safe place to carry the family for the day or for a weekend. Whereas they have campsites.

Debra Snyder

Nice campground clean bathhouses great view very clean. Nice place to relax and enjoy the beauty. Didn’t see much wildlife tho and fishing off the bank was not as good as I thought would be but overall had a nice time

Tara Rainer

We have stayed at this campground many times over the years. We just returned from a stay at the campground. Please be aware that out of three lower loop campgrounds, only one bath house is open and it only had one working toilet. I found the bath house not to be as well maintained as they have been in the past. You will drive around two closed to get to one open. This was a major inconvenience for our family as I’m sure it was to the other campers as well. I believe it was the fox loop that had no open bath house. The Bear loop did have a bath house open. It is the upper loop as you drive down the mountain. Upon arriving, we had to wait in the parking lot for along time before we could enter to drive to our site. We were 1 hour early, the sites were already open from the day before. We have camped all over the state and usually if a campsite is ready an hour early arrival is no problem. We have never had to wait before at this campground. Keep in mind that when they say 2 check-in, they mean it. Upon arrival at our campsite, we had parked our car off the side of the roadway to get our camper in the site space. We were immediately notified by staff that if couldn’t sit there. They told us it would have to be moved to the overflow area which was up at the upper mountain area near the group campground area. We explained that we were only disconnecting our camper and we would be moving the car in just a moment. It was just not a welcoming campground this stay. We could really see a big difference in the attitude of the staff. We will be camping elsewhere next time.