Pine Glen Group Campground

I like this campground. It's close to town, but far enough away you don't get road noise. The spots are big and fairly private. Our spot, number five, was about 50 ft long and easily accommodated our truck and trailer. Each spot has a bear box, sturdy picnic table, nice campfire pit with heavy duty grill grate that folds away, and plenty of shade. This is a group camp area with a few individual spots. That means if you time it wrong, you could camp next to a group of college kids having a kegger, but the large groups around us were respectful and quiet. The camp host was nice and said they typically go around asking people to keep it quiet if they get a little rowdy. But we did not experience any of that. There's a bathroom building with four single occupancy bathrooms that include flush toilets and sinks. And this is the first campsite I recall that seemed accommodating to disabled persons. For example, the picnic table had a large cutout for a wheelchair, and the toilets had supports on the sides for getting up and down. The only thing that would make this campsite better is a couple of pay showers.

It would have been 5 stars if it this campground had a showers. For showers you can go to the RV spot across the road (3 min drive) and for $8 you can take a hot shower. We went on Memorial Day Weekend, it was very cold at night (22°) and windy...but we still had a blast. We stayed in site #9 Each group spot has: *3 bear boxes *1 fire ring. *1 water spigot *3 tables *5 picnic grills (used as tables for our 22" Blackstones) Other items to point out: *4 unisex bathroom stalls (flashing) you share with 2 other sites - no issues at all with this. *Plenty of flat ground for your tents *Ranger has wood for sale, for a good price. *Deer come up to your site if you don't scare them or mind them. *You can refill your propane tank at the RV pank (3 min drive) *We heard NO traffic noise (at all) *Phone reception available (T-mobile, Metro, Verizon)

Group site 20 had 3 Bear boxes, 2 picnic tables, one fire ring, along with a couple of flatish areas for tents. There is a 4 bathroom flushable toilets building not too far away, although one bathroom was inop. There are no showers in this campground. In fact, I do not think there are any showers in any public federal campground in Mammoth, which is a little weird. There was also water spickets with buckets available, but we were told not to wash our dishes there. Fill the bucket and bring the water back to your site and use your own dish washing equipment. First time I’ve been told that. There is no dishwashing sinks by the bathroom building. They also have a weird vehicle rule for the group sites. You get 4 cars, or one camper. We had a campervan and an another family had a car. So the camphost charged us extra for the car. I find it hard to believe a campervan takes the place of 4 cars, but I didn’t win that argument. The camphost also had wood for $9 a bundle, cash only. It’s close to town and has a big park right around the corner.

Really enjoyed staying here. Most spots are group sites but there are some single and they have great space. We fit our 29 ft travel trailer, our truck, a friend’s jeep, and still had space to hang out on the side of the trailer and the picnic area in the back. Bathrooms were clean and stocked (no showers). Happy that they have 2 dump spots for Old Shady Rest, New Shady Rest & Pine Glen (which are all connected). Cost to dump is $10. There are several water fill ups as well (free). Really close to town and connects to the walking path that goes around town.

I brought a group of families with boys to spot #20. It was easy distance from a lot of tourist/site-seeing destinations. The spot allowed for 15 people. The site had plenty of places to pitch tents, three bear boxes, two picnic tables, standing fire grill, and a large fire ring with flip over grill. There were flushing toilets at an easy walking distance, potable water faucet was right by the site, and easy walking distance to bear safe trash cans and recycling boxes. They even provide buckets at the potable water stations so you can douse your fires for safety. Our main issues were the lack of showers, firewood, and extra vehicle fees. If you want to shower, you need to go to the RV park across the road, only between the hours of 10am and 5pm to buy a $10 shower ticket and if their line was too long and you arrive at the desk at 5:10pm, then you cannot shower. If the campground has flushing toilets, they should have paid showers somewhere between the three adjoined campgrounds... maybe up by the entrance. Firewood bundles were sold for $9-11 and you cannot bring your own wood to prevent the spread of insects and disease... you are allowed to harvest fallen pinecones and wood to use, but most was too green and smoked terribly. Now regarding extra vehicle fees, they count short trailers that are the same length as a van or truck, the same as an RV and therefore you must pay 3 vehicles worth of fees for that one trailer. You cannot pay for extra vehicles up front or online, so you need to bring cash/check to pay the host when they do rounds. Also the driveway to park in was a tad too narrow, but we were still able to fit one small trailer, its tow vehicle, a van, a truck, and an SUV... but we had to pay over $100 in extra vehicle fees. Would we camp here again as a group? Yes - but we will have to calculate the vehicle fees in advance more carefully, plan on enough money for one extremely expensive shower, be to the shower place early, and bring even more money to buy firewood but rely on propane stoves to do the cooking.

Very good place to camp. The only thing i didnt like is that they didnt have showers. The other nice thing of this campground is that its close to mammoth city and surrounding lakes and ski resorts, very centralized.