Scotts Flat Lake — Hotel in Nevada City

I have made Scott’s Flat a yearly camping trip for my family and I. This was our 3rd year here, we really enjoyed the last two years. They have running water showers flushing toilets, not to mention the beautiful scenery. This year was not so fun with the bear activity in the camp sites. We had a bear at 3:30 am rummage through a family friend ice chest and totes. I woke up to this and was terrified. I was in complete shock and didn’t know what do to. Someone finally flashed a light ( I think from the site next to us) my friend also Whistled loudly, the bear walk away. She didn’t have any aggression with us, I also didn’t get out of my tent tho. She just wanted the food! We are in their home and Habitat. When people don’t listen and put ALL food and Ice chest up. This is what happens!!! Oh by the way the night before there was a bear behind my camp site. The Rangers scared her away. The next day I moved to my friends camp thinking I would be safer, the camp was by the bathroom and more people around. I was wrong the bear was more active on her site. I had been up for almost 48 hours at this point. I spoke with one of the Rangers, I did not catch his name but he listened to everything I had to say and was very professional and helpful with knowledge about these bears. he instructed that all food be put away at night. I let him know how scary it’s been for me, and that I haven’t sleep in two days. He was very kind, said he would make extra rounds that night. Guess what? The bear was back again that night. The Rangers stepped it up! they were out in full force. I want to thank all of them for their hard work they put in to keep us safe and educating campers on the bear situation. I want to leave a suggestion that might help. Handing out a flyer to campers as they come in so we are aware of how to handle bear action. I also suggest bear boxes. Please educate campers or campers educate yourself on how important it is to put up the food. I think we are going to try gate 2 next year.

Tiffanie Norton Camp sites...

This place has some awesome views and a great beach area, also has showers, which is a plus if you tent camp. Sites here are good size and tend to fill up fast, especially for holiday weekends. Downsides are during holidays, it gets pretty noisy until about 1am and even if you have a lakefront site people crowd the beach area early in the day and we had multiple people right in front of our site set up and stay all day. People also walked through our site to get to the beach area, which wasnt too annoying bc our site was pretty big but later on in the day I just wanted to relax which we found difficult with all the people still out. Also, the sites we were at are infested with termites now, I've went here almost every summer for the last 5 years and never seen them before this last weekend but multiple trees had to be cut down, assuming because of termites, and there were more bugs, all kinds of weird ones I've never seen before, and yes I know, we're in the outdoors and that's a given, but we camp a lot and never had an issue like we have here this year, we were literally attacked by bugs all day, with bug repellent sprays, candles and lights up! Another issue was the bathrooms, they used to be well maintained but I noticed this time we were here for 3 days and they didn't seem to get attention once, ran out of supplies and were pretty gross. We stayed at site G4, and I do not recommend it at all! Like I said, views were great, but this site is the last in a loop and very hard to get in and out of with trucks or trailers, unless you have 4wheel/all wheel drive, they recently laid new gravel and we kept getting stuck! This site is also on a steep hill so needless to say, we got a good leg work out after the first day and by the time we left our entire bodies were sore and everyone was more exhausted than anything, so it was hard to enjoy anything for long. It was also hard finding a spot for our tent, we still slept on a bit of a slant on the flattest part! Hope this helps someone looking into...

We stayed at campsite T11. My family also booked the campsite to the right and left of us. It was a little on the down hill side but we still enjoyed it.

The weekend was a bit chilly but the view of the stars at night was beautiful. I'd recommend checking the weather before going. (take extra blankets if it's below 60 at night)

The bathrooms were cleaned daily and our trash cans were also emptied out daily. CONS: Our water faucet in the area didn't work. So we had to walk about 100 feet to get some water and carry back to wash dishes, etc. The shower coin machine takes quarters. The first .25 cents seemed like it provided colder water, once it ran for a minute it warmed up. I'd say take at least $1 in quarters for a nice shower. Men should be good with less ( unless they have long hair)

There were a few caterpillars, spiders. Not that much mosquitoes and not one fly! The camping grounds were clean and well taken care of.

We liked the little store that was at a walking distance ( 250-300 feet) It is open until 9pm. They do accept card or cash for payment. They sell just about anything you'd need while camping. (ice, water toys, water shoes, sweaters, blankets, drinks: soda, water, milk, candy, boxed food, ice cream, matches, little nick nacks. This store has much more items stocked than it did a few years ago. I believe they give you cash back. Just in case you forgot to bring quarters for the shower.

Fire logs are available at the gate entrance and the small store. It's about $6.50 for a bundle. We bought a few.

The parking is free for the first car and $10 each night for each additional vehicle.

This is the 3rd time we've been at Scott's flat. The first time at this particular campsite number(s). There were a quite a few kids (10) and about 21 adults. We reserved 4 campsites... Overall I'd say we had...