Lake Pleasant

shauntell CL

First time in Pheonix and this lake was nice and well kept. We visited on 4th of July weekend and there was about a 30min stall entering due to traffic. It costed us 10$ per vehicle to enter. There were a few locations to be and we chose a spot that wasnt crowded. We saw many donkeys in the area and 1 nearby, had rummaged through a lady's food.

Cory Anders Moberly

Nice lake with a decent campground. Lots of sites in our area are very slanted. Water & electric. I was told sites $$$ are going up - not worth over $40 for sites. Long walk to lake from sites that are so uneven. Overall nice trails, water is wet, sun is shinny and the wild burrows, if they don't get into your trash or chew up your stuff (because you were smart & put it away) are fun to watch.

Kitty Munday

I just spent 5 days here at Lake Pleasant Regional Park primitive camping in a tent at their newly opened Dirt Spillway Primitive Campground. Since I grew up in the Phoenix AZ Valley I've long been familiar with the lake, but it's been a long time since I've camped up here. And the lake itself has changed quite a bit over the decades! At this time the water level is low, only about 60% capacity so you do have to walk a bit from your campsite to the water itself, but it's not too much of a hike. The 2 biggest things that a visitor needs to know about is the strong winds up there, and the wild burros that will come right into your campsite. As an experienced camper I knew not to leave ANY food or food containers outside of my tent or closed up car. Unfortunately I can't say the same for some of the other campers. I did warn some of them, to no avail unfortunately. One young person who left their cooler out overnight, instead of having it in the back of their truck regretted it in the morning. The burros got into it and just decimated everything that was in it, including cooking utensils and canned root beers! Other campers left bags of chips, empty beer cans, water bottles, etc. and the burros had a good time all night long . But they didn't bother me. And unless you do something to hurt them, the burros are easy enough to shoo away, or to just give them a bit of a shove on the neck and they'll walk away. So aside from dealing with the noob campers errors it was a pretty good week. The campground is set up for primitive tent camping, and has a few spaces for RV campers who don't require hookups. The ONLY amenities at this campground are the 2 port-a-potties, and the dumpster. If you're wanting a stone picnic table or more amenities, you'll want to choose one of the other campgrounds in the park. I knew that already and was fine with this level of primitive camping. Again I'll mention that it's very windy up there, so you're going to need strong tent stakes, or tie downs. I used ratchet straps and tied 1 corner of my tent to my vehicle wheel to be on the safe side. I'm enclosing some of the photos from my trip.

Donna L Carpenter

My husband and I drove out to visit Lake Pleasant Regional Park on Easter Sunday and it was beautiful. The park was extremely busy with people celebrating their holidays in nature. We had a close encounter with a burrow who walked up to our Jeep. We plan on visiting with our friends and family again soon. We recommend that you visit the park as well. Plenty of restrooms available for the park. We enjoy being in nature and exploring.

Native Angel

My only Complaint is that its over priced at $10 a day pass whe there was non stop line of vehicles waiting to get in they are easily making thousands on a single day just for Daisy's not even mentioning the quadrupled thousands on campers and boaters that get charged 30to50 a day if not more. When you have literally hundreds of cars coming daily o weekends and more so holidays you can figure they bring in over 10k a day im sure. We shouldn't have to pay so much to enjoy nature. I get the up keep and all but still that seems to be a gauge still $5 daily $10camping $10 boats and hookup sites $25. Just my opinion id go more