Bartow Gatewood Park

A bit dirty when we arrived but after cleaning trash out of our site enjoyed our stay. Some of the sites are close together but we stayed in #25 and had plenty of space between us and the neighbors. There is a beach which we thought was closed since it was surrounded by a locked chain link fence but was told later it was open and to walk around. Instead we took a quick swim right at our site. (Some are steeper than others)

I didn't visit the bath house but my husband said it could use a little attention.

Staff was nice. View of dam was pretty cool. We were there on a summer weekend so the lake was busy with boats and jet skis but it was very quiet at night.

There isn't much signage when you pull in, no arrows and road though very narrow seems to be 2-way. We ended up going in the wrong direction and had to turn around to be able to back in to our site. Luckily we are small!

We quite liked it here. We were there late March so still a little chilly with some rain but the upside of that was that it was very quiet. When the sun came out it was incredible. The sites are are in great shape, looks like they upgraded the electric/water recently. Most are back-ins but lots of room for even hacks like me to get backed in okay.

Chris the Park Manager was amazingly helpful, even brought an air compressor over when I found I had a slow leak in one of the trailer tires.

Overall it was a great place to stay while I went down the freeway each day to shoot photography at Old Car City, which is also a must see. Would definitely stay here again.