Camp Far West Lake

This place was very disappointing so much we left a day early. Not even sure where to begin. We reserved our spot right on the lake months in advance. On arrival it looked nice. We soon realized that red ants were all over and they bite hard. But maybe worse was all the black spiders that crawl all over you and drop down from the trees. Ok its camping, I get it camping out doors.
But if you think you have a nice camp spot on the lake ha forget it. Other campers walk right thru your site and set up all their boats, jet skies, blow up and play just feet from you. Yes you will be trying to enjoy your friends and family and other campers will brush by you invading your camp spot.
Now if you are thinking more people the better then keep reading. They have No Showers. And to use the restroom you have to walk to the main entrance. If you are ok using a bathroom covered in urine all over floor and seats you will be fine. Oh and just know they do not provide seat covers, toilet paper or soap to wash hands. Avoid the door handle exiting if possible.
Now if you like to stay up and party all night like our neighbors blasting music, yelling and hearing all about their sex suggestions until 4am you will love this place. And you can even get second hand smoke from the weed for you and your kids. Security goes by and says nothing to them.
The second night someone called the sheriff. As they approached they shut it down like college kids so fast. They spoke to them and left. No more then five minutes later they had the loud music back on. But these Deputies are seasoned and came right back. Not sure what they said but the blaring brain rattling music stopped. But loud yelling did not.
So this was just my experience. Very miserable and ruined our family camping trip. But only good thing the ladies at the store are so sweet and nice.

If you want to stay up till 4am listening to other people blast their music then this is your spot. Or if you want to camp on top of a whole bunch of other people then this is your spot. It goes well with the nasty bathrooms with poop on the toilet seat. Not to many positive things about this place only thing I can think of is that they have nice trees. Pretty sure this place is just for fast boats and loud parties, not camping!

I have left a review before of exactly how CFW is, but this review is all about New Years Day festivities. Wow! So awesome! 50 hotrod boats, couple hundred vehicles, people camping, mororcycles, cool old cars and a fricking limo. TONS of people just coming out for the boats. Even JJ’s BBQ was out there selling their Q. This was my first time attending and I loved it. Little chilly but you can bust out a fire right on shore if you wish. Water level was not great but enough to fill the cove. Cant wait for summer time!!!

This place is so bad that they don’t want you see their web site. You cannot even look @ their web site.

This lake in late April is about the only time of year to come for camping. Grass has not turned brown yet, and the lake has water then. Outside of that, it is over-​priced day use, over-​priced camping, and park rangers are waiting for any vehicle to stop at night.
So whether or not you are 100% of compliance of all laws, if you are in a motor vehicle at night leaving this place, you will get stopped if ranger is here. They will try to intimidate you to consent to DUI tests, or face going to jail. They act like they are doing you a big favor by letting you go, when you violated nothing. This is now the second time leaving after day use, and second time experience getting scrutinized by Ranger /​security over nothing.
This place used to be welcoming, and peaceful along the north side, now it’s a mudpit I refuse to go back to. Camping just got to stressful here!

We attempted to camp here, with the intention of staying two nights. We arrived at 10 pm after confirming they were ok with that arrival time. It was horrendous. We bought a «full hook up» RV camp spot only to find out it wasn’t. The spot they had (the only one) was not accessible and impossible to park even the smallest RV on. We ended up parking in the parking lot. That was a mistake. There were cars and partiers driving thru the campground yelling and screaming until 5 am. We attempted to call the «security» multiple times with out success. Worst experience I’ve ever had at a camp. In the morning I made contact with the employee at the store who gave me a form and said «oh well.» I hope she’s fired. On a side note the lake was near empty, never go to this place!

You really need to know what you’re getting when you come here. I can only speak for camping at the waters edge at North Shore. There are some portapotties around but they can be sort of far away. When you’re at the waters edge, you need to sort of claim your land around where you’re at or you can end up with people camping almost on top of you.
The water is great, the people that run the place are great as well. People down near the water can be a bit loud at night but if you have a trailer, it’s a non-​issue. It might not work out for those in tents where you hear every thing from miles away.
We love going here as it’s a great place to ride our jetskis.

Read the Unilocal reviews prior to going to this place and we were concerned, but a friend who had gone before said it wasn’t like that. Unfortunately, the Unilocal reviews were right on, this place sucks donkey ass. Where to begin?
We arrived midday on a Saturday, Memorial Day weekend with our two kids 10 & 13, paid $ 25 per night (we were supposed to stay 2 nights) with no boat for our stay. First off the bathrooms are disgusting. The women’s toilet was basically a hole in the ground with a toilet seat and someone had clearly had an episode of explosive diarrhea. It was disgusting to say the least. Our son could barely stand the stench in the men’s toilet.
We set up camp and noticed there were giant sized biting ants everywhere! Eeek!!! There were many large holes in the campsite and 3 out of 4 of us stepped in one and injured ourselves. The reservoir itself isn’t horrible to look at, until you want to go in the water and you realize the shore is muddy and covered in rocks that could cut your feet wide open. If you have a boat or jet ski it’s ok BUT I hope you like LOUD, OBNOXIOUS speed boats with humungous chrome engines and pipes that smell like gasoline. If you have ever been to a drag race this is drag racing on the water! The noise was so deafening, I couldn’t even converse with my husband standing a few feet away. This continued until it got too dark for safe boating. Also, there is basically nothing to do if you don’t have a boat or some sort of floatation device. There is really no swimming area and nothing to see other than the racing boats.
At around 11pm we were ready to gear down and think about sleep. However, apparently we were the only ones with sleep on our mind. The party was just getting started. The yelling, screaming, swearing and dog barking would continue far past midnight, although we wouldn’t stick around to find out how long it would last because we abandoned camp at that time and took a few belongings to a hotel for the night. On the way out we asked at the front gate why they didn’t send security around and they said all of the security was dispatched to the north side of the lake to break up a huge fight.
The next morning we returned to break down our campsite because we definitely were not staying the 2^nd night and we lost $ 25 because we had already prepaid for both nights.
To conclude do not waste your time or money unless you are up for an all night party with no sleep, sharp rocks in the water, no swimming, loud boats and shitty, disgusting bathrooms.

If there was zero stars, I would rate zero. dirty, nasty, and not worth the money! Bathroom are disgusting!

I’ve only been here once and the only good thing about this lake is that it’s quiet (at least when I went there) and if there are no tubers or jet skis around chopping up water it’s great for wakeboarding and other water sports in one of the fingers. they don’t mark hazards and the docks don’t have a no wake zone so people come zooming by making the water wavy. it’s difficult to put your boat on a trailer, especially when the water at the dock is about 3 ft deep. the lake can go from 60 ft to 5 ft so you really have to watch where you are going.

I came here for Jetski. The place itself is kind of depressing with really a bunch of trees and all the grass kind of brown. There doesn’t seem to be any other plant life around. The campsites were dirt surrounded by rocks with a couple trees and the lake down the hill. The restroom looked like a outhouse made in the 70’s, that’s still standing.
Walking towards the water, it’s all mud. Certain parts of the lake seems like walking on a large piece of poop. The lake is kind of small. I was on the other side of the lake within a minute.

I rate this place a 0. This is by far the worst camp site I have ever been to. I’ve been to many campsites, but this is the first I highly recommend you to not go to.
So this time our «good» friend decided to host our camping trip and he happen to choose Camp Far West. We were unsure about the area, but still decided to go. There are soo many reasons why I suggest you NOT camp here.
1. It’s not even worth it. They charge $ 20.00 per car, not by campsite. Other campsites usually charge you around $ 15.00 per camp site per day.
2. There is no running water or showers. You may be lucky if you find a water faucet, but the water is not clean I’m pretty sure it’s the lake water.
3. I’m pretty sure the lake water use to be a whole lot higher, the cashier said the reason why the water is soo low is because farmers get their water from the lake to water their farm.
4. The lake water stinks, I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t even want to step foot in it. Also there are is huge jelly looking disgusting things in the water. I would have taken a photo of it but didn’t want my phone drowning in that nasty water.
4. There are some nice areas to camp at, but there’s absolutly nothing to do unless you have boats or jet skis.
5. The website sucks! They don’t provide the whole 411, I think they need to update their site. I thought the place was going to be a real nice place because of the pictures I seen on the site, but nope. I think the last time they updated their site was in 1992, and it’s 2009 now.
6. They don’t have a garbage man. The area where we were camping at had a horrible garbage can that stinks! I believe the garbage has been there for a week or two.
7. There are no fishes, but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want to eat it either.
I hope this review makes you want to google or Unilocal another campsite. Happy camping.