Canyon View Campground

"Great group camping"

This campground fit our group of 19 friends perfectly for our summer camping trip.  The 13 kids ran around through the trees, played in the dirt with sand toys and played card games on one of the many picnic tables.  The 3 moms represented fit their family's week worth of food in their own bear box, and we enjoyed chatting next to them and preparing food together because the three boxes were all close to each other.  

The Kings River is a short hike down a steep hill from the river side campsites.  This works well for watching small kids and keeping them safe from the fast flowing river, and gives a perfect day outing to the water for wading or fishing.  In the summer of 2011, the water was too high to swim in and there were no wading holes but I could see that on lower water level years, there would be.  

The group campsites are spacious and far from each other.  At night from our campfire, I could barely make out 2 other campground fires through the trees in the distance.  This made for a quiet and peaceful time.  We don't like being squashed next to other campers.  

The road through the campground was rutted and full of pot holes and was not suitable for riding bikes or scooters.  It will probably be repaved soon.

Women's and men's restrooms are scattered throughout the campground and are fairly clean.  2 stalls, 1 sink inside, 1 large sink outside but no electric lighting inside (bring good flashlights, lanterns or head lamps for night time potty runs)

We were surprised by some heavy summer rains on our last 2 days in camp.  We have camped in Kings Canyon for years and never experienced more than a few passing drizzles.  This year, the rain poured down and ran in little rivers through all the campgrounds.  One little stream ran right through our boy's tent as it found a small hole in the bottom of the tarp.  Needless to say, they slept in our tent that night and we came home with soaking wet sleeping bags!