Camp Huaco Springs

When we set out our objective was to celebrate a birthday party down at the river. We invited quite a few people, and hoped for a good time at the river. I called a few days before to confirm the price per person and was told it would be $10 a person! Quite different from the year before when it was $10 per car up to 4ppl. I asked are you sure this price is not per car? The person again clarified it would be "$10 per person". We then spread the word to our friends, sent out evites listing the price and hoped to see them there. When we arrived it was indeed $10 PER CAR as it had been the year before. I was misinformed, a little annoyed, but grateful of the lesser cost nontheless. After driving for an hour a friend of ours showed up with his dog. He was told he could not enter because there were no dogs allowed (except in the RV park, come to find out!) Understandable, rules are rules. (It was under the weight limit as the website states as well as on a leash, but unfortunately 10 ft. from the RV park,(where we were) would not suffice.) Moving on, once we learned of this unfortunate rule, we tried to talk to the staff to see if there was something we could work out, afterall he had just driven an hour to get there. Instead of being understanding, polite or compassionate the gentleman, or quite the opposite rather, was a rude, condescending, jerk, for lack of a better term!!!!! Once we had come to the conclusion that the staff would not work with us we pulled off to the side to discuss further options. That same LOVELY gentleman, whom I can only hope is NOT the owner of this place, proceeds to get into his truck and yell at my friend to "move out of the way". After passing my friend, he parks his truck and proceeds to walk over to us yelling "WHAT DID YOU SAY"? (he obviously expected us to say something when in fact, we had not) We responded telling him nothing was said to which he responded "THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT"! I didn't take time out of my day to complain about the rules, I took the time to review this establishment because of the discourteous, inpolite, and offensive way in which we were treated. No business should be run this way whether it's a campground or a 5 star hotel and my hope is that with enough reviews like mine, something will change. In the meantime, we personally will be finding another river spot. Pros: On the river Cons: RUDE staff, Website misleading, terrible customer service! more

If you have a Family -- BEWARE BEWARE If you are single and/or want to PARTY/CUSS and Be Obscene until the wee hours of the morning -- THIS PLACE IS FOR YOU.... Summary: We(Me/Wife + 3 kids (9yrs,10yrs, 14yrs) pulled in and loved the scenery... People were friendly durning check-in. We went to our tent site... and it was much smaller than what appears on the park map. Its about a 20 by 20 site stacked beside and behind... So Some sites are on the river and the other sites are about 15 ft behind you... so on the map they show much further apart... but they are not. I thought the scenery was awesome and could deal with the proximity... what i couldn't deal with was the vast number of younger adults cursing, strong sexual language/conduct and late night partying until many hours after the 12am quiet time and urinating in site of my kids. What really took the cake was when my 9yr old little girl was feeding bread to a family of little ducks that swam up to her by the river bank.... One of the girls neighboring us said very loudly... "Aww... those ducks are cute little ###effers." Such a joyous moment. Camp Huaco does not enforce the 12am quiet time... if you need help you have to call the Sherriff (Unbelievable)... Anyhow this place seemed to be more of a place for wild partying to go on... great if your single/very young couple but absolutely some very strong rated R and almost X behavior going on. Bathrooms are very far away from tent site and so is the running water because they have no hookups at the sites. Bathrooms/showers were pretty nasty. After no sleep on Day 1 and being rudely warned the next day by the staff that we were 1 ft over on our campsite and needed to move some stuff we went and found a great family site about 1 mile down named River Road Camp Grounds... they have a web site... It was $1 higher per night but man was it fantastic... we picked our site and had electric and water at our site. Mostly all families there so there was no lude behavior going on in front of my kids. There were other family camp grounds in the area that looked nice too... Camp Huaco - SUCKS FOR FAMILIES.... PROBABLY GREAT FOR YOUNG ADULTS/COLLEGE KIDS looking for weekend benging but if you have young kids that you actually are trying to raise in a decent fashion... KEEP AWAY.... Pros: Scenery is nice and location is good. Cons: Profanity, Lude Behavior, No quiet enforcment, nasty baths more