Castle Rock Trail Camp

Nice picnic tables, decent place to set up your tent and go for a short day hike. But... Extremely bad and smelly outhouses, toilet paper doesn't get replenished either. You want to be prepared with your own supplies when u camp here.

This trail camp has different areas. Each of the areas have picnic a picnic table, a place for a BBQ, and a decent space to plant your tent. The camping areas also have outhouses, however they are pretty bad (I visited camp site #1) - there are insects, they smell, and I do not recall seeing any toilet paper.

Went there for a long weekend. There are various trails head to the campsite, this review is focus on the campsite itself. The campsite is first come first serve based and has more than twenty sites. However, I would say only half of the site is habitable: some are overed with leafs and some are missing the table or there is some garbage in the pit. I would say maybe the Castle Rock state park is underfunded as I can see there is a abandon ranger station. One of trail is blocked by a tree when I went there last week. (be prepared to do a bit rock climbing when getting there.)

Highway 9 and highway 35 are close enough to the campsite that you can hear revving engines all night long. Lots of mosquitoes and foxes. Nice clean toilet and flat ground for tents

Castle Rock Trail Camp has piped water, pit toilets and even a payphone (though I didn't verify that the payphone works). There are multiple water faucets so we didn't have to walk far each time we wanted to fill our bottles. The camp also features a shelter for "inclement weather". This is good because this is one of the few trail camps that's open all year. Fire rings are available though fires are not allowed during certain parts of the year. The cost per site is $15. The sites are varied; most of them are under tree cover, but a few of them are not. When I was there the extremely bright sun made those latter sites less appealing. Some sites had ample room for a couple of small tents whereas others were laid out in a way that would make more than one tent tricky. There is a cluster of