Crane Flat Campground — Hotel in Oakhurst

October 2025. Site 501. I reserved a site for 4 nights but only stayed for 2. Keep in mind that I love the NPS! But some things REALLY need to be better thought out. The sites in this campground are very crammed together. People are allowed to run generators and do during the allowed hours. The pollution just hangs there under the canopy of tightly packed trees. Especially this time of year. Then on top of that everyone is burning. Many with half rotten stuff they dragged out of the forest. Again the smoke just hangs in a suffocating blanket and chokes you. People at least were kind of quiet at night. Most likely because it was pretty cold at night. The bathrooms were outright gross. Pee on the floor. Poop left in the bowl. Trash on the floor. Nothing had been maintained. The door was constantly open. The dishwashing / dish water dump area was very gross and shaped like a men's urinal. Eeeeewwww! My site "driveway" was so slanted that I had to sleep backwards/upside down in my camper. It was so slanted that even blocks would not compensate. The host said that there's a rating for the grade in the listing for each site. There is actually a "space" for it, but it simply said N/A. Someone really needs to go around to all the campgrounds and PROPERLY photograph each site and enter HELPFUL information. Customers who care about things like that would be much happier. I totally get that bear boxes NEED to be used. No problem. But could you NOT put them so far away from the cars that its a huge endeavor. And could they not face my neighbors so they can help themselves?? As well, bears aren't the ONLY concern. I don't want my personal items and food in a place where any unscrupulous person can get into it because YOU CANT LOCK THE BOX! How simple would it have been to put a lock loop on these when they made them. When you go to the valley for the day its open season on your stuff. Its exhausting walking back and forth to a misplaced bear box every time you need something. Even in the dark. Bring a dog chain at least 15 feet long and a lock of your own. Its the only way to fix the problem. The staff at the booth were kind and friendly and helpful. They were the best part of the campground itself. I would probably not reserve a site here again without seeing it in person first. And Id definately bring my own lock and chain. Too bad all of us cant plan our stay 6 months in advance or afford 700 a night to stay in the valley. Something needs to change. I'd work for free to be part of...

Reserved a site here from the UK for 2 nights end-September as soon as the on-line 'booking window' for the dates we needed opened; have used these government run campsites in National Parks in other parts of the US before on several occasions - have never been subjected to the lottery of getting a place or not before though?! Would be more helpful to allow bookings much longer in advance for the purposes of planning an itinerary? ||Chose this site over the valley ones as we were due to be in Yosemite on a weekend, so figured it would be quieter and less crowded - wrong on both counts! The campsite was fully booked both Friday and Saturday nights, and we were subjected to quite a lot of noise from a crowd of 20-somethings in tents on the adjacent site - both when they first arrived (about 11.00 p.m. on the Friday night i.e. after the time noise is supposed to stop...….) and again on the Saturday night. ||Coming and going to and from the valley on several occasions during our stay, we did not once see the ranger booth at the entrance/exit manned (just a hand-written sign advising that the campsite was full), and there seemed to be no patrolling presence throughout the weekend, which I found a bit disconcerting. Have never experienced this in any other US State where we have used government-run campsites?||Site I had chosen and booked from the on-line campground diagram, said to be suitable for a 30' RV, was extremely tight and certainly not level. The single toilet block was dirty and poorly maintained, again, something I have never found before in similar campgrounds elsewhere (although you can't blame the people running it, only the people who use it...….).||On the plus side, the campsite is useful for visiting Yosemite Valley, and handy if arriving via the Tioga Pass route. ||One further gripe - we tried to refuel our RV at 08:30 on a Sunday morning at the gas station close to this site; not a single pump was working (would not accept cards of any type), and there was no-one manning this booth to pay cash to either! We encountered a lot of frustrated and irritated fellow travellers who were all having the same problem. This is not a good situation in a place where gas stations are few and far between. ||Yosemite needs to up its organisational game on quite a...

Reserved a site here from the UK for 2 nights end-September as soon as the on-line 'booking window' for the dates we needed opened; have used these government run campsites in National Parks in other parts of the US before on several occasions - have never been subjected to the lottery of getting a place or not before though?! Would be more helpful to allow bookings much longer in advance for the purposes of planning an itinerary? ||Chose this site over the valley ones as we were due to be in Yosemite on a weekend, so figured it would be quieter and less crowded - wrong on both counts! The campsite was fully booked both Friday and Saturday nights, and we were subjected to quite a lot of noise from a crowd of 20-somethings in tents on the adjacent site - both when they first arrived (about 11.00 p.m. on the Friday night i.e. after the time noise is supposed to stop...….) and again on the Saturday night. ||Coming and going to and from the valley on several occasions during our stay, we did not once see the ranger booth at the entrance/exit manned (just a hand-written sign advising that the campsite was full), and there seemed to be no patrolling presence throughout the weekend, which I found a bit disconcerting. Have never experienced this in any other US State where we have used government-run campsites?||Site I had chosen and booked from the on-line campground diagram, said to be suitable for a 30' RV, was extremely tight and certainly not level. The single toilet block was dirty and poorly maintained, again, something I have never found before in similar campgrounds elsewhere (although you can't blame the people running it, only the people who use it...….).||On the plus side, the campsite is useful for visiting Yosemite Valley, and handy if arriving via the Tioga Pass route. ||One further gripe - we tried to refuel our RV at 08:30 on a Sunday morning at the gas station close to this site; not a single pump was working (would not accept cards of any type), and there was no-one manning this booth to pay cash to either! We encountered a lot of frustrated and irritated fellow travellers who were all having the same problem. This is not a good situation in a place where gas stations are few and far between. ||Yosemite needs to up its organisational game on quite a...