Hallsted Campground

ok, i may be a little biased when it comes to this site. i grew up going to this campground when i was a… you guessed it… kid. i dont know about you, but i go camping to camp. not to stay in a cabin complete with bidet and look for a local michelin rated restaurant. part of the charm of this site is it is right on the feather river with train tracks all along it. who doesn’t like to relive their childhood and count the cars. there is one train a year that is a passenger train that still goes along the feather river through Union Pacific complete with caboos. yes they do run at night, but if you sleep with someone who snores, you probably wont notice as you have ear plugs in already. i would give it a shot. plenty of bats at night. gold panning is always fun especially when you find a little flash… and if you must bathe, there is running water… THE RIVER. grandpa would just head to the river with a bar of soap… yeah, it works!

I would love to give this site a better review but the trains that run right along the adjacent mountain side 6 or more times a day, all day and night really hurt the experience. Also, some of the camp sites are to close together and have little coverage. This leads to very limited privacy. One of the most surprising things was, not all camp sites have a bear locker, ours being one of them. This is an issue that can and should be addressed fairly easily. Also, the showers are the highest priced of any grounds I been to yet, 2.00 for 4 min.
The good things about this campground is the ease of access, the low camper count (witch helps negate the privacy issue), and brand new facilities. This camp ground is vary clean, no graffiti and no trash anywhere to be seen.

Just spent 2 nites here for the M-​weekend. It was a diff experience than Yosemite. This campground has only 20 sites I think and only 8 – 9 of them were filled the 2^nd nite I was there, possibly due to the bad weather. Very tranquil and peaceful. Nothing much to do at the campground. You would have to drive to sightsee, which is what we did. We drove into Greenville (has a supermarket) and pretty scenery. Also drove to Taylorsville to Genese to Antelope Lake (it was snowing, so disappointing, took 2 pics and left Antelope lake). There was century bike event in town that day we explored, but the route was so quiet, there’s hardly anyone on the road. Population in the nearby towns are like 100. We didn’t bring our bikes. But if we did, we could have biked in some towns where it was flat.
I actually booked the wrong place, intending to go to Oroville’s Feather Falls Scenic Area but booked Plumas County instead! Oopsie. Abit of a drive from SF so I might only return one more time, and that’s to see its fall foliage. A bit disappointed not to see too much wildflowers (too cold).

I’ve camped here three times in the last two summers and I love it. The water isn’t very deep, but I am from the city and being in such a quiet, serene place is so worth it to me… even with the train barreling through several times a day. When I’m there (Plumas County) I feel like I’m in a movie and I am able to reflect back to my time there throughout the rest of the year. There are tons of things to do in the area (fishing, hiking, swimming, rock-​climbing, kayaking, relaxing, etc) and it feels like heaven. I caught my very first fish ever, a blue something, at a lake that’s located about 30 miles away (Round Valley Lake).
The campground itself is average. There are no showers, and a community, co-​ed bathroom with 2 stalls and 2 sinks. I went twice in this last summer of 2010, once in July and again in August. The difference was that it was hotter and crowded in July, and cooler in August. Also, there was the addition of food lockers and several noticeable bear droppings later that summer.