Lake Sidney Lanier - COE/Bald Ridge Creek

brie_briscoe

We have been camping at Bald Ridge for 5 years now. It is like our second home during the summer months. We love the changes Forsyth County has made to the park and we love Cindy, the camp host. She knows our son by name and always greats us with a smile. They do fun activities for the kids on holidays and she always makes an effort to chat if she has time. Anytime we have had an issue Cindy has been very easy to reach and very helpful. This is a great campground that is very family focused and quiet. The boat ramp is easy to access and if you want to paddle board or kayak the coves are great for that.

Xueang Xiao

Nice camp site and great amenities. But the lady who works at the gate is ridiculously rude. I hope you don’t have to deal with her.

Joselyn Schutz

It's painful for me to have to rate this place so poorly. I've been camping at this beautiful facility with my family for 20 years. The Corps let it really go downhill the last few years, and our first visit with Forsyth County in charge last spring was incredibly improved. Everything was clean and the installation of gates made everything much smoother. There was an employee who accused the group of families who were camping with us of defecating in the showers, but we were eventually able to show her that the feces was backing up from the pipes and they probably needed to get a plumber out. Well, hold your horses. This time we realized at the beginning of the week a hurricane was coming. A few of our friends had decided they couldn't justify the expense of camper rentals for their four-night stays if 2-3 of the nights were going to be too dangerous, so a few canceled. A few asked if they would be able to come on Saturday and the gate attendant said no. Fair enough; they hadn't paid to come. Somehow, however, the attendant decided that our group intended to cram the campground full with all the families who had canceled in order to cheat the campground out of their facility fees. She started harassing every family who checked in, accusing them of nasty things from scamming the campground to adultery (I wish I were kidding!). She told the park rangers we had exceeded capacity, when the average number of people on our sites was only 5. She claimed we were blocking bathrooms even though there were always at least three spaces open. One family who had paid for a reservation came in on the second day because of medical difficulties and she told them she was not going to let them in because they were over capacity - they absolutely were not - and threatened to fine them $200 and ban them for a year! When she relented and they asked what time the gates were closed because their adult son needed to come in after work, she refused to tell them. She told several of my friends, who are literally the sweetest people I have ever met in my life and I've never heard raise their voice or be rude to anyone in decades of friendship, that they were the rudest people she ever met. She kept making up rules that didn't exist, like banning us from parking at the beach or from bringing in visitors even though they were pre-planned official visitors of sites that had plenty of extra capacity and the rules specifically allow visitors until 9:30. If she decided to grant an exception to her made-up rules, she acted like she was doing a great favor to a truly offensive transgressor, and that they were lucky they weren't getting fined $200 and banned for a year. This woman is in the wrong job. She has no business working directly with customers. I see from other reviews in the past year that she has been abusing other guests, as well. Several of the vendors who delivered RVs for some of our families also said she is the rudest person they've ever seen at a campground. Forsyth County has to do something about this situation. She either needs retraining or reassignment.

J Arthur Winslow

I was there July 11, I wanted to see the campground closely and then I wanted to stay here. But I change my mind at the front entrance when I meet the attendant person. She was soooo rude. States must give more education to the staff. State park administration has to improve their staff's communication skills. Staff have to improve personal communication skills. Especially that kind of vacation place's staff must be educated. If you think stop by Bald Ridge campground be prepared for someone who is a rude person to destroy your vacation. If you are planning to stay here, think one more time, I recommend going to the Shawnee campground. Don't waste your time here keep your energy up.

Jill.Derrick Hardison

Quiet campground as only persons allowed in are campers (no day use passes). Paved area for parking, very clean site and well maintained. Bathroom house by dump station is brand new and immaculate. I don't think there are laundry locations, maybe removed when bath houses were updated but could have missed it. Cell service just great for Verizon. We weren't given a gate code upon arrival so that took a while to track down a campground host during gate house office hours to get it. Some campsites had dogs off leash so that was a bit annoying for our dog since he didn't understand why he had to be wearing his leash.