way, way too hot this time of the year, no shade trees
huge red ants were everywhere
stickers and weeds, no grass, to walk our doggie
ton of mosquitos everywhere
very unpleasant camping experience

The area is clean , Lots of grass, lots of ants. Rules in rule book are a joke . We were told we could not have a small plastic pool. it was not in the rule book , No way to get cash at store. Pool is large but the charge 2$ per person. small kids not allowed safety items for flotation. Not the arm floats or any thing. life guards are more interests in the other sex. one small boy had to be saved by another parent 5 feet away from life guard, who was talking to a girl. Other than nothing on any website warning you of the things you need to know. It was a nice stay .

This was our first stay at Lake Skinner. We are frequent RV users, and have camped all over the US. We were there for a family reunion at a near-by winnery, owned by a cousin. There were 5 RV's in our party, and all of us had reservations. The 1st nite, most of us returned to our campsite about 9:30. Our son was delayed, because he had to take some relatives to a hotel, about 10 miles away. He returned to the campgound at about 2-3 minutes before 10:00pm, and found the gate LOCKED!!. I do mean LOCKED with absolutely no other was in or out of the campground!!!! For an hour we tried to locate someone to unlock the gate, but to no avail. We had no camp host in our section B, and no one answered the ranger phone #. The camp host sites are not on the map that was given to us at check-in, and we were told later, that they would NOT have unlocked the gates, even if we had been able to locate a camp host ......only if there was a life and death emergency. NO WHERE in the camp rules, at check-in, on our reservation print-out, or on the web-site does it say the gates are locked. There is a small sign at the entrance, easily missed, unless you are looking for it. The gates are apparently locked from 10:00pm - 6:00am.

Unwilling to leave their NEW car parked outside of the campground (the locked entrance is remote and at least a mile from the actual campground), my daughter-in-law crawled through the gate and took their car home, about an hour away, leaving my son with their now 2 sobbing little boys in the RV.

The following day, I found the staff to be almost defensive, and in denial about how unpleasant a surprise locked gate is.

Additionally, the mosquitos were horrible.....trash was not picked up....and the swimming pool was not open for our 8 grandchildren to use, despite the fact that we had confirmed that it would be open. The reason.......not enough campers to justify it's opening.

All in all, a pretty bad experience.

We had a great corner site. It was private and quiet. We were able to walk down the hill to the lake and there were several private lake areas. They did have somekind of a bathroom problem, they had added several porta potties, they were clean and well kept. Over all we had a great time, and look forward to return, perhaps in the fall.