Crowded when my family and I stopped by last month, but better than the alternative!! It was thunder and lightning and hiding out with real thru hikers Medic, Burney, Whitman, MusicMan… priceless. Cooked dinner and the sun came back out allowing us to get a little farther down the trail to our tent. Water source was apparently the pond, but we didn’t fill up. Did use the privy, and did dry off big time. We were definitely thankful for this shelter