Large forested campground providing a swimming beach with a seasonal lifeguard, boating & fishing.
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Largest campground easy of the Mississippi according to the staff. Over 800 sites.
Campground and store.
Pet friendly (bring Rabies certificate).
Site numbers are hard to read - they're painted on the rocks in yellow on a red background. Numbers should be in reflective white at least.
Needs better signs on where you're going. In addition, site map is wrong in some cases - they need to re-do it. Road in a lot of places is narrow for ONE car yet is two-way on top of lack of signs, hard to read site numbers, and inaccurate map.
In the main camp area many sites have curbs that mess up your car or get you stuck. There's nowhere to park. They should be listed as high clearance vehicle only sites.
The campground beach fits about 30 people for 800 sites. There's a handful of parking spots right there. Someone had an unleashed dog swimming there where people swim (unsanitary). There are no signs saying this is prohibited so š guess it's allowed (?).
Boat ramp is miniscule and meant for kayaks, canoes, sups, and maybe rowboats. Since the beach is so small maybe they expect people to rent a canoe from the camp store so they can jump out and swim (?)....the camp store to rent the canoe is way too far away from the boat ramp launch so you can't carry it and would have to strap it to your vehicle somehow...be prepared for that. They should drop the rentals off at the launch for you.
Staff seems generally tired and annoyed. Like they all hate their jobs.
Bathrooms were fine not amazing. Portables restrooms supplement the flush buildings. Portable restrooms were near full even on a weekend when campground was about half or less capacity.
No dog park. Multiple campers were looking for one. Please build one.
Mosquitoes galore. Brutal.
No enforcement of quiet time. I don't believe they patrol so you have to call in if you need something. But stuff may be annoyed or may not care.
Sites can be a little close together. Main camp area has the least privacy / least vegetation. Partial shade.
All in all I can't say I'm impressed or that I would be back other than it's close to the ocean down the street.
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Tl;dr: loud, cramped, feels like a police state. It frankly bums me out to be writing a negative review of Burlingame. I've been coming here all my life, but this place has really gone downhill. They have all these new, overly intense signs about what you must and must not do, and a big light up check in gate where the commandant must check your papers. There's a way to do this without making someone feel like they're in Soviet Russia, but the folks running Burlingame opted to go for the scary, confrontational manner. The intense signs are what you might expect to see going into a prison visiting area. Not the vibe I'm trying to have on my vacation. Also, for all the increased police presence (and the raising prices reflect this), there seems to be zero enforcement of the rules. People were tearing it up partying and yelling and blasting music/movies all night (quiet hours are 10pm-7am). The group next to us was killing sapplings to make a fire, which is also a bootable offense according to the Orwellian posters. I found the staff to be unfriendly for the most part, and unhelpful on every front. Our site had a huge curb that scraped/dented the hell out of my wife's car when we pulled in, and they didn't seem to think that was an issue that needed addressing, even when I called and went in person. Also, they picked the worst times to clean the bathrooms. Like, it's a campground near a wildlife preserve and the beach. Clean the bathrooms at 11am when everyone is gone, not at 7am/8am when everyone is trying to have their morning constitutional. Huge lines and nowhere else to go with under a ten minute walk (which ordinarily is fine, but when you gotta go and already walked to the restroom, you just want to get in there and do your business). We were packed in like sardines. It was loud as hell. The staff was unhelpful. This isn't the place I've been in love with for over 30 years. IDK what's happening to this place, but it isn't good. I hope they can address these issues and bring the good...
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Campsites are on top of eachother with zero privacy. the photo of our campsite online made it look wooded, but it was not - there was a second site literally on our site, no trees between or anything to even know where our site technically ended and theirs began, literally connected. It was hard to enjoy the evening because our neighbors were in bed by 9 and we felt bad even just talking around the fire. They have quiet hours but both mornings woke up around 5am to generators, dogs barking, and kids screaming.
Absolutely zero alcohol, not someone who likes to sit around and get wasted but I look forward to a beer by the fire on a camping trip. They have a sign literally threatening arrest if you bring any alcohol right as you check in. Iām sure itās somewhere on the website but I didnāt catch it if it is.
The woman who checked us in was so frazzled (not sure why - there was no line and it wasnāt busy) talking over us while also asking questions, turned what could have been an extremely simple check in into 2 minutes of back and forth about who was here, who was coming, what cars we were driving, etc. Felt like we were being interviewed at customs just to get to our camp site. Just set a weird tone/vibe to the weekend. For how strict they are, we realized we had accidentally given them the wrong license plate number and despite them checking it every time we drove in (and it being wrong) they never noticed!!
I will say the site was level, well maintained, the fire pit was nice, roads paved nicely, and the camp store was really nice and good prices for last minute essentials. The camp store has a full iced coffee bar which was a treat! Porta potty by our site was nice and clean, no litter. But it was definitely not the relaxing camping weekend we...
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