Frenchman Campground

On July 9 we camped at this campground in the pine trees on Frenchman Lake.  This is located 14 miles north of Chilcoot, Ca. in the Plumas National Forest.  This is one of four campgrounds in the area of which 3 were directly on the lake.  Only 25 percent of the sites in this campground are currently reserve able on Reserve America which I think is a great idea.  There were no sites available for the weekend.  This was a very hilly campground and a little challenging negotiating the big rig between the trees and the all sites required some leveling.  Bring your own water and empty tanks as the only amenity's are pit toilets and several water spigots.  That said, I had no difficulty leveling my coach and the pit toilets were immaculate.  The lake was up and there were many boaters here as the water temperature was 75 degrees by my untrained guesstimate.  It took me three 1.5 hour cruises on my kayak to circle the complete lake.  There is a boat ramp adjacent to this campground and another by the dam.  Buddy went for several tethered swims and we toured the other campgrounds on the lake and spent a few hours at a day use area at the other side of the lake.  We took Buddy for many hikes and we encountered deer, birds, chipmunks as well as cattle and a flock of geese on the other side of the lake while cruising in my kayak.  A bear visited our campground the first night.  The campground hosts Gavin and David were very helpful and kept the park very clean.  It was very peaceful here and we enjoyed our stay.  We paid $12.50 per night with our America the Beautiful Senior Pass which reflects a 50 per cent discount.  I rate the park ****.