Grant Lake

My husband and parents just came back from trying to camp at Grant Lake. It was the most terrible experince of my life! First of all the campsite looks like a desert and the next campsite is only a a few feet away. Second, the pricing is ridiculus, they wanted 22.50 for a campsite an additional 3.00 for each child (yes, they charge extra for kids) and then if you want to park an extra car, you have to pay an additional 22.50. The staff are the rudest people I have ever encountered! I dont know how they stay in business. Do Not Camp Here!!!

Ridiculous «unwritten» policy and confrontational staff spoil an otherwise adequate campground.
Please do not waste your time or money at the Grant Lake Marina. The incredibly rude host attempted to charge us for an extra site for a party over 4. When we asked to see this in writing, he could not produce a document corroborating the policy. We were promptly expelled from the grounds upon realizing his scam.
In the 20+ years my family has been camping in the Eastern Sierras, we have never had an experience remotely resembling this unfortunate incident.
There are more than a dozen great campgrounds in June Lake Loop and the surrounding area. Do yourself a favor and stay at one other than Grant Lake Marina.

When I was a kid, we used to go to Mammoth every August. Although we spent most of our time in and around the City of Mammoth Lakes, we made regular day excursions to Bridgeport and Tioga Pass. We also occasionally visited the June Lake Loop, and as I got older (and was sometimes alone with my parents on vacation), we began to make June Lake and environs a regular part of our rotation.
I love the loop itself, the little town, and the string of lakes along the 158. June, Gull, and Silver Lakes are all very beautiful and serene in a postcard kind of way. And then there’s Grant Lake.
Situated just off the northern entrance to the June Lake Loop, Grant Lake is actually a reservoir for Los Angeles. It’s massive compared to its fellow loop inhabitants (it has a larger surface area than the other three lakes combined), and unlike these other lakes, Grant isn’t surrounded by beautiful trees. It’s kind of a barren desert landscape around it; and this makes the lake itself more impressive, lonely, foreboding, and just strange.
California suffered from an extreme drought in the early and mid-‘80s, and I remember being shocked as a child to see this gigantic lake bed almost completely dry. (There was once a huge earth-​moving tractor right in the middle of the dry lake.) I’ve seen the water level go up and down – at this and other lakes – and this has given me a keen appreciation of just how reliant we are on nature for our water. It’s humbling and often scary.
The last time I came here, the water level was pretty high. People fish and boat on Lake Grant, but I don’t know whether I would ever want to. It’s just not as picturesque and inviting as its little cousins. But I love the fact that it’s here. Although it’s only a few miles from the other lakes, it feels like it’s in a completely different biome. That’s also something I’ve grown to love about California; we have so many different kinds of terrain, and they’re all beautiful in their own weird and sometimes disturbing ways.