Have we ever considered just reserving a group site?
Seriously - the rangers leave you alone more, and there's more room to spread out, noise is not generally an issue since you don't have others around, there are less parking restrictions, more bear boxes, super large firepits than can withstand big fires, and usually a central restroom.
For our Pagan group campouts in the Angeles Forest, it rocked. People could still spread out for privacy, but then commune in one central location. We would have (sometimes topless) drum circles that lasted until 5am, with the night ranger joining in at times. And, we even burned a very large wicker man in the firepit once.
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