Green Valley Campground

I was looking to take my Jeep off-roading in the Big Bear area. I just needed a simple tent site where I could have a campfire at night, and as usual I hadn't booked very far in advance. By luck, I found Green Valley Lake.

When I went online to reserve my spot, the only site left was site #1, so I grabbed it. After asking the camp host, I found the site - isolated from the rest of them in its own private little grove. The parking spot for the site is a considerable distance away, next to site 2. It was a bit of a hike to get my gear in and out, but it was worth it for the privacy. Plenty of trees provide shade, and isolate you from the road and your neighbors. There was some noise, but they were completely blocked from view.

The campground itself is very well maintained. The bathrooms were clean, with flush toilets, running water, and lights. The sites themselves don't have water, but there were faucets all over the campground so you could fill up a jug and take it back to your site. This is bear country, and bear lockers are installed at every site. The hosts were very nice, and sold firewood at their trailer for $8 a bundle. There was no AT&T cell service at the site, but there was a few miles down the road.

The campground is about a mile past the village of Green Valley Lake, which has a small market and a restaurant. A few miles further is Arrowbear, which has a couple very well stocked markets and gas stations. Running Springs is a few more miles down the road, and has all the services you would need in a small town.

For off-roaders like myself, the Big Pine Flats trail starts just a couple miles down the road, and offers a fairly easy and fun drive to just north of Big Bear Lake, and continuing on to Baldwin Lake.

The next time i camp up in the Big Bear area, this will definitely be on my list of places to camp again.

Beautiful and quiet campground in the San Bernardino Mountains. I have a 32' motor home, site 16 was good for it. There are few other sits for a rig that big. I did not see any that would handle something larger, but a lot of sites that can handle smaller rigs and of course tents.

There are no hookups, just vaults toilet and water. The water did not have threads to hook a hose up to, so if your in a rig, have water in your tanks.

There are several nice hiking trails. The two we did looped back to the campground. The small lake where there is fishing, swimming, paddle boats, canoes is about a mile away.

Verizon cell service is spotty. The higher you get in elevation, the better...but never more than 2 bars 3G.