Castle Lakes Campground & Cabins

Jeuba

Wonderful location in the middle of the forest where the stars shine bright at night. We stayed in cabin C and it provided us the essentials, mainly a place to lay our heads at the end of a full day of riding. We fell in love with the small friendly town of Lake City a few years ago and continue to keep it at the top of our list.

Eric Waters

Castle Lakes is a beautiful campground on the Alpine Loop with direct access to two private lakes. It doesn’t get much prettier. To top it off, the service level provided by Monica and Ben is outstanding! I highly recommend a stay here if you are in the Lake City area.

Trey Marlar

We loved everything about Castle Lakes! The RV campsites are nice because they are not right on top of each other. Plenty of room for dogs, camping chairs, & coolers. The office has plenty of souvenirs & necessities, but don't expect to go by the posted hours of operation as the host(s) live there & they are on their own time.

Chana Garrett

Spent the month of July tenting here… loved every minute of it! Ben and Gabby are doing a great job providing a friendly, welcoming place to relax and spend your vacation. Castle Lakes is our home away from home… can’t wait for next summer!

NC

Campground is beautiful, right in the forest next to two crystal clear lakes. Ben was very helpful and nice. There are nice hiking trails near by and we were 20 min from Lake City. We also biked on the Aloine loop right by the campground. Be aware of the potential for the altitude sickness. For us it wasn’t too bad ( a bit of headache and hard time to fall asleep), you might want to allow a couple of days to get used to it before doing a long hike. For the negative part: We broke down with our tow vehicle, we arrived one day later. And we had to leave one day early because of very bad allergies due to the forest. The pollen was in full in June! We didn’t know that would have been so bad. You might want to go in August or September. So we pay two days that we didn’t actually used. It would have been a nice gesture to them to give us a credit for one of the day but they didn’t. A nice gesture to make you want to come back when the pollen is not so bad. Overall nice campground, quite with a beautiful scenery and helpful staff

LA

Called about tent sites and to get one reserved for our summer vacation. Online it says "two night minimum" under reservations but then was told "3 night minimum" over the phone. As soon as I continued with the conversation I was told "ok thank you, goodbye" and was hung up on. Thought it would have been a nice stop on the loop but the 3 nights required turns out is a bit inconvenient for that and certainly didn't appreciate the bad customer service over the phone.

lisa wankier burgess

My wife lisa and I (mike) have been here 8 out of 13 years celebrating our anniversary. Our anniversary is October 31st ,but they close on October 1st. So we're celebrating our anniversary in September instead and also because of the spectacular fall scenery and the wildlife. We got great photos of a moose family. We absolutely can't say enough great things about Monica and the cabin (G & C) plus campground and lakes. It's so quiet and 3 days gave us quality time away from the drudgery of day by day work, phones, anything technical, and back to nature, Yatzee, card games, walks, end enjoying our relationship and our 4 year old German Shepherd do it in the middle

marilyn shannon

We love to stop for icecream and clean bathroom break while riding the Alpine loop

Zach Elliott

We really enjoyed our stay at Castle Lakes! We were mid-way through our camping trip and decided to find a place with showers and actual toilets for a few nights. When I reserved, I figured we were getting a tent site but we ended up getting a short RV site, with power and water which was great to keep our phones charged up. We were right next to a bathroom which did have running water and was a nice change from vault toilets. It rained while we were there and the lodge was great to hang out on the porch and enjoy the wifi which worked OK. It was somewhat slow and dropped out a few times but that's just the nature of the remote area. The showers were super clean and stayed nice and hot. I didn't feel like i needed to wear sandals or water shoes like other parks. I felt the management was really nice and had no problems with them. If you don't want to get yelled at for going faster than the speed limit, then maybe slow down, it's not that hard.

Josh Worley

High priced and the management is rough. You would think with as much as you pay for a spot you would get treated better by the management. We got in trouble for having a fire…. Got in trouble for putting our kayaks on the water and for our kids getting in the water. If your a family with kids this is not the place for you. They won’t get my money ever again. They have a rule book a mile long and police the area hard. The owner will chase you down on a 4 wheeler and chew you out for driving even a little over 5mph. If your retired and just want to have a place to park your camper with full hookups than you should be fine. Also you will be parking very close to other people and are stacked in like sardines. It is a shame due to how much we love this area.