Buck Meadow Campground

Gorgeous ice cold crystal clear water flowing through this campground. We sometimes stop in to swim and refresh early before the campground is used. There is small rainbow trout and brown trout that are hard to catch and wild. The campground itself is somewhat small but very nice. There is some slick granite upstream so if you have little ones something to be aware of. Also this water is stinging cold. Nearby dinkey creek is much better suited for swimming. But this water will wake you up especially very early in the year.

A beautiful campground, quiet and the sound of water trickling through our campsite.

Love this campground. Close to a lot of places to visit, plus it has quite a few areas to have fun splashing around and explore. Only maybe 10 campsites and one bathroom. But it's so beautiful there

This is a "first come, first serve" campground at $22/night and we had a very enjoyable stay here. We were lucky enough to get one of the larger sites for our family, and then our nice neighbor told us he was leaving the next day, so we were able to get his site for our friends the next day. That site was next to the river, which gave some nice ambiance and fishing (caught and released a couple out of there). We arrived on a Tuesday, which made getting a camp site easy. Come Friday night, people were driving in and leaving because there wasn't any more space. Saturday morning I flagged a family down to say we were leaving, so they got lucky. Arrive early to get a spot... no later than Thursday night or Friday morning. The site manager, Curtis (Curt), was a super nice guy who was very accommodating at the site and for ideas of places to go. I told him I was impressed how the toilet didn't smell bad like other sites I've been to, and he bragged about how he uses a combination of pine and cinnamon to keep the smell down. The bear lockers are very small, so don't expect to be able to put a large cooler in them; however, Curt said he hadn't seen or heard a report on a bear in that campground for 6 years, which is when he started. So, we kept our large coolers in the back of my truck, but still covered them up with a tarp and net at night. There is No Running Water on this site... you must bring your own clean water. I almost gave this a 4-Star because of this, but since we had such a nice time, I couldn't do it. Curt told us we could use water from the river if we needed to, which we did do once. We did empty a container and brought a drinking cooler and a shower bag to Camp Edison and Dinkey Creek campgrounds to fill up when we went there for a day-use (highly recommend). We used the shower bag for washing our hands, but for showering - we did that at Camp Edison. My wife has all of the pictures, which I will try to post later.

Remote but clean, suggest a truck or high clearance car for spots 5 or 6. Bugs are crazy in late spring. Don't wear bright colors too, they loved my purple shirt. 5 was missing the fire ring but the rest of the spots had everything