Lost Lake Campsite

Great for primitive camping it's get everything you'd want but still secluded

I just want to start off by saying I visit this place a lot. It one of the one’s that isn’t reserved year around and I’m a local that likes camping. This place is one of my favorites you can see to water come to life as the sun starts to set. Very secluded and a good size camping spot, Picnic table, Pavilion, and porter potty. The only problem I’ve seen before today it’s being to overgrown for an rv or a travel travel or even an high enough van. It need a lot more attention now sadly because how much I love this place. Yesterday I had a reservation here to get away and relax a little. When we turned in off the street everything was fine it looked the same. Up until you got to little bit after the sign. It’s always been a long dirt gravel winding road single lane. Branches have fallen nobody’s been by to pick them up, we have a f250 we had tree branches hitting the top of our car and sides(We don’t care). The last time we were here it wasn’t like that it’s more overgrown now. We arrived to the camp site it looks like someone was staying there but no one was there. There was a towel hanging on the fence in front of the porter potty and so much garbage around the pavilion and garbage can’s. Large sticks leaning against a tree. So it hasn’t been cleaned. I didn’t feel comfortable staying there. What is someone was staying there without reservation, or what if animals came because of the amount of garbage that was there in the can’s and on the floor all around the pavilion. I gave two instead of one because I really like this place but it need’s some work.

Loved this place, it was full of birds, wild mice, beautiful views, as well as owls. If you go I would bring rain protection it will get misty during new years time when it's a little colder there like (65-70 degrees) no bugs out. I injoy my time here it was nice solo camping

If you like primitive, this is the place for you! My son and I were looking for camping around the springs in the Ponce DeLeon area. We found this site on the Northwest Florida Water Management Area website and reserved it without checking it out first. It is the swampiest, snakiest, gatoriest looking place I've ever seen. Two young turkeys ran out in front of us as we entered the dirt road, followed by a half grown wild hog. The only clearing in the swamp was the campsite itself, with a fire pit, a pavilion with two picnic tables under it and a grill. Bring the bug spray! And lots of it. Yellow flies, horseflies, and mosquitoes the size of bats by the millions. If you're looking for cool, clear, refreshing, water to cool off in, not the place. The swamp water was still, and green and stagnant. I couldn't in good conscience put another living being in that water unless it was bait. Might be some good fishing. I didn't go. If you want quiet, forget it. Hoot owls, screech owls, every species of frog in Northwest Florida, from little chirping rain frogs to big daddy bullfrogs, cicadas, crickets, droning swarms of mosquitoes and every other buzzing, chirping, noise making insect there is. Plenty of firewood. All of it wet. Of course, the next morning our battery was dead. Fortunately, we got ahold of Red Bay Market, just down the road, to come out and give us a jump. The highlight of the trip was their fried chicken.

We stayed for the weekend last year and thoroughly enjoyed Ourselves. Its primitive camping but so worth it. It's a beautiful place!