30 dollars a night to stay with no services. Accepted this as we were coming out to visit/support our friend battling cancer and potentially spending her last summer doing what she loves. We brought our generator (a quiet model) and Starlink to help her have contact with the outside and a bit of entertainment in the evening.
Checked the "rules" before departure regarding generators, pets etc. These were not clear, simply use your judgment, no firm parameters like we've experienced at other sites. Seems the rules are arbitrary. The website is impossible to navigate and clearly isn't monitored or updated. There are entire sections that appear to need coding or adapting (ie: the phone number is jumbled and would likely be confusing for anyone unfamiliar with local numbers)
Don't bother trying to garner clarity either. Our friends attempted to get additional information regarding the sites and rules and had no luck. The sites appear to have been hastily relabeled , presumably to create more "spaces" where there really weren't any. The space I booked was not where I ended up but since we never saw the owner or any sign of them (with exception to the stranger who randomly showed up to passive aggressively advise us of the generator rule/non rule)Pets must be leashed (completely reasonable) but the owners pets are roaming free. We didn't hear or see anyone when we arrived, typically the owner will come greet you at some point, or at the very least, confirm you've paid for the spot. Our friends had arrived before us and prepaid for firewood that didn't show up until 2 days later. The rationale being that the kid that does it only comes out on the weekend and the family is friends of the owner. Using the common sense rule, we shut our generator down at 11pm and didn't restart it until 9 the next morning for the first night. We were sitting around the fire at 10pm Friday evening and the same "freind" came over and said we should shut the generator off so we didn't get "in trouble " from the owner.
We complied. This morning we started the generator up a bit earlier, approximately 830 am as I wanted to charge up the internal power source and have internet available for our sick friend (who unfortunately has already committed to staying here for the summer and will absolutely need to have power and contact with the outside) Apparently the owner made an appearance while our other friend was walking their dog and said we needed to keep generators off as it interrupts the peace others come out here for. I suppose the sxs her friend is going around on is exempt.
Here's the thing.
We can absolutely appreciate and respect rules when they are CLEAR and FIRM. If we, or our dying friend might have known the type of environment we were coming into, we might have chosen a different area. To have no interaction with the owner except peripherally when she's decided these arbitrary rules need to be enforced, is certainly not encouraging for a second visit- which is unfortunate since it may have been an option in the winter for us.
So, I suppose if you want absolute quiet, no fishing off shore (the entire shore not just the main swim areas which may make sense) no services whatsoever for the approximate cost of a full service site (we typically pay 40-50 a night for full service) for the privilege of setting your rv on their unkempt grass contradictory, arbitrary rules, then this is definitely the place for you. To be fair, there were a few people camped here, so there's clearly some that may appreciate this type of environment. Perhaps other friends or aquantences of the owners that help out by monitoring the other sites? I'm unsure. But, we certainly won't be back. We really hope our friend fares better as she potentially spends her last summer here. read more