Lake Jennings Park

Overall a nice place and very well cared for city campground with a lake for fishing. The lake is a municipal water source so no swimming. A peaceful camping experience in the middle of a populated area. They even have huge teepees on a few camp sites to rent. We took advantage of the 7 day stay discount, but then paid $1/per dog/day on top of that. It was approx $191. there are different rates on the weekends and holidays. Easy access along a single lane road That loops the entire lake with a 10mph limit. Campground is on a hill overlooking the lake and surrounding valleys. This is a decent moderately priced option for staying with reasonable access into San Diego for sight seeing without paying the exorbitant rates ($100-200/night!) charged inside S.D. City limits. 3month stay limit per year. We stayed at the ‘non-electric’ sites, there was a water hookup at each site but not power or sewer on the ‘partial’ sites. Sites are kept immaculate and immediately cleaned and raked Whenever vacated by campers. Very nice covered childrens playground as well. Onsite grounds maintenance crew was seen daily Working on the grounds. Bathrooms, showers were well kept, dumpsters were nearby. Dump station located at the center of the campground and included in the price, unlike the California campgrounds that no longer include dump station access in the overnight price. Lake Jennings is highly recommended and we will return.

Stayed here for one night. Clean site. Small, but it fit our 10 person tent, and two SUVs. Lots of trees and brush in between sites. There’s a playground for the little ones. We had an amazing view of the lake. The bathrooms are clean and there’s free hot showers. There’s also a fish cleaning station that was clean, no lingering odors when I passed by. 5 minute drive to the boat launch. $10/hr to rent the paddle boat, tiring but a nice memory for the kiddos. Our site was max 6 people but we had 9 and there was no issue. $2 fee for extra vehicle per night I believe. The sites are dirt and loose gravel. Each site has a picnic table and a fire ring with a grill to do your cooking but we brought our own.

Overall a great experience. Definitely would stay here again, maybe with our RV. It’s a nice quiet getaway from city life.

We parked in lot 95 which gave us a great view of the lake and the mountains behind it. The park was quiet, but there were lots of smiling faces once you left your campsite and started wandering around. The sites are not crowded together. You can see your neighbors rig, but not overhear their conversation.

My favorite thing was the chill in the air at night, even though daytime temps were in the high 80s.

This is a really great campground with awesome views! The staff were friendly and amenities on site include: flush toilets, free (hot) showers, and ice/firewood available for purchase. It's about 30 min to downtown San Diego/the beach and is considerably more affordable (and less pretentious) than the campgrounds close to the ocean. We stayed in a "no hookup" site with our tent camper and it had water at the site. Overall, the campground was pretty quiet but some of the full hookup sites had barking dogs in the RVs. One of these was located next to a camp host so I assume they don't heavily enforce the rule "Pets cannot be left unattended." We have dogs ourselves that we don't leave behind so it's a bit annoying that others aren't as courteous. Barking dogs aside we had a really great time here and will definitely come back.

We loved this place for our short visit to San Diego. You can get to downtown San Diego in about 35 minutes. This lake is very beautiful and quiet. Our campsite was on the top of a hill with a fantastic overview of the lake. The hilltop also had great sunset views and views of the Lakeside city below. Just a wonderful place. We had electric and water hookups. There may have been sewer, but we didn't use it. There was a bathroom right on the center of the hill. It had two private no extra fee shower rooms and normal bathrooms. There were other shower and bathrooms facilities at other location in the campground.

It is run by the Helix Water District. We heard that they may close the place as it is not getting enough visitors. That would be a total crime as this is a great spot.

We tried to go to Santee Lakes campground, but we don't have an RV manufactures sticker on our home made camper van and so Santee will not let scofflaws like us in. You have to have a fancy RV with all the trimmings to get into that one. This place was much much better anyway!

We had a great hike around most of the lake. It was just a great relaxing, no hassle place in a beautiful setting.

This is a fishing lake with a launch and a couple of fishing docks and a kids fishing area that is stock and little kids where catching big fish!!!! They allow some night boat fishing ... check on the schedule.

On most weekdays (M-Thur) you can only hike halfway around the lake and back. We guessed this was to give the waterfoul a break from people during the week. It was still a nice hike. There is a flume trail from an interesting old flume that was historic in the area. This could be a heart pumper trail for some great exercise.

This is a great campground I've stayed at 3 times while visiting San Diego. With easy access to I-8 you can get to most attractions in San Diego in under half an hour, such as the zoo, Sea World, and Sunset Cliffs. Also, you don't feel like you're in the city at all when you stay here, with open green hills all around. This campground is very nice in the summer, warm and dry, but we caught a winter storm this time and it was rainy and cold. The first two nights it didn't rain but was so humid and cold that the inside of the tent was covered in dew and the pillows and sleeping bags got wet where they touched the inside of the tent. The bathrooms at this campground are good with flush toilets and showers, but the showers only have one setting which is a little on the hot side. Black widows may be found lurking in the bathrooms, but I've only seen one in all my stays there. I easily get cell coverage on my T-mobile phone here. Will definitely stay here again but not when there's a winter storm warning.