Recent Hipcampers say this Hipcamp is great for families and kids.
Best all-around: Finalist
Named one of the best Hipcamps to visit in 2023.
Welcome to Hidden Falls Yosemite Camp. Come and enjoy our beautiful and private micro climate, created by the cascading waterfalls from Nelder and Lewis Creek. Camp by the creekside and fall asleep to the sound of the meandering creek, with absolutely incredible views of the stars overhead. Both creeks feed into the head of the Fresno river next to the campsite. You'll be surrounded by Oaks, Alders, Pine and Cedar trees. Take a day trip to Yosemite, hike/bike in the mountains, or explore the nearby towns of Oakhurst and Bass Lake.
The south gate to Yosemite is approx. 20 minutes and Bass Lake is 5 minutes by car.
This was so incredible! I definitely plan on going again in the future. The host was super sweet and the lil cabin was so cozy. I was worried about being cold but it was not a problem at all in fact I got a little warm in there!! The view of the waterfall from the cabin is also Stellar. Just so awesome!
The views were beautiful, private, and peaceful, and directions were clear. I want to return here and recommend my friend come here for a vacation. The outside bathroom next to the owner's house is super clean.
This is the kind of place that Hipcampers reserve based on a description on the website, then cross their fingers that reality will live up to the photos. It is a very large, flat, and wooded SINGLE spot next to a wide forest creek, set below multiple levels of rocky waterfall. The creek is lined by boulders, and you have this whole lovely section of creek to yourselves. The aggregate surface of the site has good drainage, so even after days of heavy storms we had very little mud to deal with and firewood, delivered by the host, is $15 for a whole night's worth.
We were here over Xmas 2024 in a 23-foot Winnebago Ekko, which looks and drives like a big ambulance. This is a dry camp site, although the hosts provide an extension cord and access to a water hose from their house about 260 feet above the site. Our Starlink satellite system worked, and there is a dump station ON SITE with a standpipe that makes it particularly easy to dump a cassette toilet. There is a shower/bathroom building next to the hosts’ home, which makes this a great site for tent campers, but using it will require climbing a steep and winding path.
Getting to the campsite is not for the faint-hearted, especially if your vehicle doesn’t do well on hairpin turns. Seriously, the whole little neighborhood must look like nodules off a paperclip from GoogleEarth. We bottomed out and scraped a lot getting in and out, so I would recommend this spot for high-centered camper vans and tent campers.
I had booked a night for my birthday and my husband and I unfortunately never made it to the camp site as I had texted Wendy when I got there and never received a reply about the directions to the actual campsite. Upon booking it's stated that you text the host because you're supposed to meet with them when arriving and they take you to your campsite location, that was not the case. My phone had died while I was waiting and due to the fact that the Google map directions had ended in front of someone's house and my husbands phone was slowly dying as well (my car charger port doesn't work), we felt weird waiting in someone's driveway so we left back home which was a 5hr drive. I finally received a reply back from Wendy a couple minutes before I had already gotten home and put my phone on the charge for it to start. Had we stayed and waited for a reply we would've been in front of someone's house for over 5hrs. The communication after was incredibly long like the first reply and it was along the lines of "oh no that's a bummer that happened I hope you're able to visit us again sometime, happy holidays". I can't help but feel that had the actual directions been given upon booking a night and proper communication was had this situation wouldn't have happened. It was very upsetting driving 10 hours in one day and not being able to spend my birthday in a location I had paid for. I will definitely never be booking with someone who has a 5-11hr response time again.
Great communication from Wendy. The spot was lovely and perfect for a long weekend.
Location
Oakhurst, Madera, California, United StatesTraditional, ancestral territory of Me-Wuk (Southern Sierra Miwok), Miwok, Yokuts, and Chukchansi First Nations according to