Gifford Pinchot State Park, PA
June 14-20, 2008
June 14-20, 2008
| GRADE | COMMENTS | |
| Campsite | B+ | Site 213. Electric. No water. Very well maintained. Asphalt pad. Site was well separated from the other sites with a barrier of trees. Lots of interesting boulders and birds including hummingbirds that fed from honeysuckle on the back of our site. |
| Restrooms | C | Reasonably clean. Great temperature in shower. |
| Trails | D | Park seems to be geared to visitors of the lake and not hikers. Hiking trails were not well maintained. |
| Campstore | F | None. Very surprising for a campground this nice. |
| Park Map | Park Map PDF | |
| Campground Map | Campground Map PDF |
2 comments:
Thanks for the review- I may head to Gifford Pinchot next week. Did you get a chance to check out the lakefront campsites? Would love to know if they are really close to the water and if they are close to each other or somewhat spread out.
Thanks!
Emily, NYC
I was just there scouting the campground out yesterday (8/20) cause I intend to take the family there for a weekend next month. I live near there. The Good about Pinchot is the swimming opportunities and many sites are right up next to the water. You could literally fish from the door of your dome tent. I’m not kidding. Bath houses are above average in my opinion from other campgrounds.
The Bad is sties are definitely on top of each other. If you’re looking for looking for privacy, you’re out of luck with 60 to 70% of the sites. One of my favorite campgrounds (kinda near by) is French Creek Park south of Reading, PA. There are some nice secluded sites there.
There are two loops (A and B) to the campground. I went up A first. A is more of the happening and occupied place than B cause it is by the swimming area. Some specific ideas:
***#116 because it was pretty big, next to water and somewhat isolated. There were people there so I couldn’t walk up to it to see how flat it was. It might have been sloped a bit.
***#195 was an isolated one with a nice flat almost grassy area for a tent. This ‘block’ of a dozen sites would be less noisy and occupied.
***Combo idea is #124 and #125, these two are practically joined. Don’t know pricing, but likely cheap enough to buy two side-by-side for space and privacy. Together, they’re big with lots of tree cover sitting down across from the RV area out of site near the water.
***Some others were #320, #17 (had water hand well pump which could be nice) there were one or two others but can’t remember them.
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