Merritt Reservoir SRA

Heidi Nicholas

I'm only giving it a four star because the campground roads are sand. Makes it pretty slushy to drive through when it's rained. Otherwise, one of the prettiest camp spots we have found across the US. Very, very nice! Do not drive the Merritt Dam road with an RV. It's not gravel, but it's not been repaved for many, many years.

Ford PUnk

Stayed at Cedar Bay campground for 2 nights and the weather was great. We don’t fish so pretty much stayed in the campground. Restroom was very clean and so were the showers ($1.75 for 5 minutes; change machine takes $1 and $5 bills). The lake is down a lot since we were here in 2018 but there were still a lot of boats around. Camping spots (electric) vary from level to pretty difficult to park. Some spots are somewhat isolated but most seem to be kind of close to one another. For parking there seems to be no limit to the amount of vehicles in a spot (our neighbor has a 30-foot pontoon boat and a 40-foot 5th wheel) and parking on the grass is widespread. Only one dump station for all of the campsites (at park entrance) and water is at a spigot for the campground. Our only complaint is the prevalence of sand burrs, they are EVERYWHERE! Would it hurt to put down some pre emergent around the common areas?

Laura Lutz

Nice lake to camp at! Love that the RV electric sites are by the water, unlike a lot of places. Decent fishing. Great place to see the stars at night, as it's pretty dark out there, except for the campground host's overabundance of decorative lighting at their site... Wish they wouldn't have had so many outdoor lights at their site...

Orion Maier

There are many campsites to choose from here. We stayed at the Cedar Bay campground and had an amazing overlook of the lake with a sandy beach. The water had a ton of algae in it when we were there so we couldn't go swimming. There were two groups of extremely rude campers while we were there as well. There was a trailer full of drunk early 20s kids blasting music until 4:00AM. I woke up at 2AM to ask them to respect the quiet hours, but they were too wasted/oblivious to even understand it seems. If you're one of these people, please go camp and get wasted in your mom's backyard next time.

Elaine Korwek

This is a huge park and we actually did not visit all the areas, so my review is only for the campgrounds of Beed’s Landing, Boardman Creek and Cedar Bay. We stayed in Beed’s West. Our site was #K. We were very disappointed with this particular site. The trash dumpster and electrical transformers were right in our site. I’ve posted pictures. There also is no picnic table at this site. The rest of the sites in this area are nice and well spaced, but some had tables and others did not. Our area at Beeds West has a lovely lake view spot where we saw a fantastic Nebraska sunset. There are only vault toilets in the Beeds and Boardman campgrounds. The toilets were clean and all had toilet paper. No hand sanitizer was available in any of them. We saw only 1 water spigot in each campground area. There is a bathhouse with flush toilets and showers at Cedar Bay, however they were disgustingly filthy. The showers are pay showers. Cedar Bay is an easy mile walk from Beed’s, while Boardman was about 1 3/4 miles, mostly on 97 with a fair amount of traffic. We did not make it to the main campground as it is about 3.5 miles up 97. The dump station is near the main campground. All campground roads are dirt/gravel and so are the camp site pads. There is no WiFi, but phone service is excellent. We could get 4 TV channels with our antenna. All were PBS and very clear. We never saw a camp host or park ranger, so I have no comment on them.