"They lock the bathrooms at some point before midnight. That's a real pain after a late
night dive in a dry suit."
LOL, yeah I discovered that after a night dive at one point, and *needed* a shower before doing the 3.5 hour trip home, thus ended up taking a FREEZING shower outside while inadvertantly flashing the restaurant.
I've camped Veterans a number of times. I have no real complaints with it, though on event weekends, go early evening Friday or you may not get a spot, though the ranger let me sleep in the hiker overflow area once. They allow fires during the fall, winter, and into spring, but during the highest fire danger season, you can't build a fire, though you can use a propane stove.
If you go early enough, you can get one of the spots in the very back of the camp. I've stayed in the parking space sized campsites in the middle, which is a little too much togetherness with the neighbors, but one time they put me in a back space that had a little 150' trail to the campsite from the road, was surrounded by trees, and had at least five different comfy spaces to pitch a 4 man tent, thus you could easily have a good group in there without being on top of each other.
Free hot showers (hooray!) and a free wake up call at Reveille courtesy of the U.S. military.
One bummer is you do have to be out by noon though. No late checkouts.
This last weekend, I ended up at the Motel 6 in Marina since the Travelodge misquoted me, and I was not going to pay $109 a night for a single!