Campground bathroom reports

Campground bathroom reports in Parks Manager let anyone who has camped at a Recreation.gov site rate the bathroom from 1 to 5, tag what was wrong with it, and record which kind of toilet was actually there.

Recreation.gov will tell you a vault toilet exists. It will not tell you whether it has been pumped this season, and that is the difference between two campgrounds that look identical when you are booking.

1–5rating scale
8bathroom problem tags
5toilet kinds
3facilities rated separately

What one report records

A report is a rating from 1 to 5 plus, optionally, a comment, the date you were there, the kind of toilet you found, and any problem tags that applied. One report per person per campsite, editable and deletable afterwards.

Capping it at one per person is what keeps a rating from being a popularity contest. It is a record of a visit, not a vote.

Tags rather than free text

A bathroom can be spotless and out of order, or working and unlit. Those are different problems and a star rating flattens them into the same number, so the problems are tagged separately and can be counted.

Water and showers are rated on their own scale, independent of the bathroom score, because a campground with immaculate toilets and no drinking water is a specific and important kind of bad.

Problem tags by facility
Facility	Tags
Bathroom	Out of order, dirty, smell, no toilet paper, no handwashing, needs pumping, poor lighting, insects
Drinking water	Out of order, dry, dirty, leaking
Showers	Out of order, dirty, cold, no water, smell, poor lighting

Five kinds of toilet, and why the distinction earns a field

A report can record what was actually there: flush, vault, pit, composting, or none. Recreation.gov publishes its own amenity data per site, and Parks Manager shows both, because the official record and the state of the building on a Tuesday in August are different facts.

Somebody bringing a toddler and somebody bringing a camper van care about opposite ends of that list, and neither is served by a single cleanliness score.

The toilet kind is also an alert filter

A campground cancellation watch can require a specific toilet kind, using the amenity data Recreation.gov publishes per site. Someone who will not book a pit toilet can watch a campground without being emailed about the loop that has them.

What it does not do

This is a young dataset and it is worth being plain about that.

A report exists only where somebody camped there and wrote one. Most sites have none.
There are no photos and no moderation queue.
Ratings are shown to signed-in users next to the official amenity data. Parks Manager does not publish a public star rating for any campground.
Coverage follows Recreation.gov, so it is United States federal campgrounds only.

Common questions

Can I see what a campground bathroom is actually like before booking?

Parks Manager shows Recreation.gov amenity data for a campsite alongside reports from people who camped there, each carrying a 1 to 5 rating, problem tags, and the kind of toilet they found.

What problems can a campground bathroom report flag?

Eight tags: out of order, dirty, smell, no toilet paper, no handwashing, needs pumping, poor lighting, and insects. Drinking water and showers carry their own tag sets.

Can I filter campsite alerts by toilet type?

Yes. A Recreation.gov campground watch can require flush, vault, pit, composting, or no toilet, based on the amenity data Recreation.gov publishes for each site.

How many reports can one person leave for a campsite?

One. It can be edited or deleted at any time, which keeps a rating a record of a visit rather than a vote.

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