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roadtripper1443502

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March 03, 2022
Rated

Not sure what campground the previous four reviewers were at but it's not the one I'm at. After reading their 5 star glowing reviews, I was very much looking forward to camping here...but then I couldn't even find it at first. Following the original provided GPS coordinates (it's since been corrected), it took me to the original posted address (also since been corrected)...but no campground was there! I had to call the number posted here only to be told that that address was where a back gate to the property was...and that is always kept locked. This was actually my second call to them, after being unable to find any RV park reservation information on their website. I eventually found it with their help but it was difficult to navigate. They also don't tell you on the site that you have to reserve more than 48 hours in advance. If it's less, the site will tell you that there are no sites available...even if there are. That happened to me. I had to call and ask if there were available sites. There were plenty.

So I punched in the correct address she gave me - 5400 Ballpark Rd. Drove thru the entire complex, past ball fields, the dog park, event center and their office...but could not find the RV park. So I called a third time. Turns out the park is hidden, no signage to indicate it even exists. For those looking for it...you turn at the street the dog park is on, follow the road back towards the event arena, then just before you get there take a right across what looks like a bridge, into the fenced in RV area.

First thing I notice...pretty much no one there. Like 6 RVs in the whole park. And no shade trees. Everyone's in the sun unless it's early or late in the day. Sites are not spacious. It's a big parking lot where you can almost spit far enough to hit the next RV. Many of the grills aren't back near the picnic tables and the concrete pad where they should be. They're up near the front of your vehicle where you've backed in. Restrooms are decent and private but no mirrors. I used my reflection in the paper towel dispenser.. Showers are separate from restrooms on the opposite side of the building but have no temperature control. The water isn't even lukewarm. It's a push button system where the water shuts off after 20-30 seconds. Also, poor pressure and weak stream. I left, wasn't even going to mess with that horrible system.
There is a pavilion...with no tables under it. Just a big empty space. There's also signs that something like sites 26-45 are reserved for Year 2 volunteers...whatever that means. Nothing else in the RV park itself.
Outside the park is all the sports fields and event arena but no action there when I'm here on a Wednesday night. Even the dog park is a bit of a hike from the campground. And both doggie poop bag boxes were empty. The site numbers are hard to read from the street. They're way up, attached to the electrical post and they are gold colored numbers on lighter colored wood, so hard to make out from a distance. I thought I was in site 5 until I got up close and saw I was in 15. My T-mobile wifi was constantly fluctuating between 1 and 5 bars, so say 3 bars. The picnic tables are delightful, look almost brand new. And before I left, I checked out the laundry room. Wasn't going to, previous reviewers stated there was only one washer, one dryer...for 50+ campsites. But I checked it out anyway and was glad I did. No charge/FREE. Couldn't believe it. I quickly did 2 large loads before I left...in their industrial size machines. They hold a LOT of clothes. They also look pretty new and are electronic. Next to the laundry room the utility closet was left open...inside was laundry detergent, softener sheets and a very clean sink. So I took advantage. Used them all. Washed dishes because as we all know, most campgrounds don't allow that.

$20 is a great price for electric/water/dump/free laundry...and cold showers but why anyone would want to stay here beyond one night is beyond me. There's just nothing here. It's cold, lifeless and boring, with no privacy between sites. Nevertheless, I'll be back because of the price, free laundry and large dog walk areas.

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December 05, 2021
Rated

Just got here, 3:30pm. Only came because of the previous review saying they wouldn't do anything if you parked overnight one night. Didn't see the signs when I pulled into the lot. Saw them as I was parking. 'No Overnight RV/Tractor Trailer Parking'. Normally I leave when I see a sign like that but being so late in the day, as in the sun going down in 2 hours and after driving all day, I didn't want to start searching for another place. Plus the previous camper had no issue a month ago. So I'll stay and see what happens.

Previous camper also stated they took that corner, next to the woods. I didn't, for two reasons...
1 - That's the corner where the delivery trucks come in. They need some room to swing their rigs around that corner, often rolling into those parking spaces. I've experienced this at other Walmarts. So I parked back about 5-6 spaces both as a courtesy to them and so my RV wouldn't get nicked as they rounded the corner.
2 - I walked those woods just now. There's a couple homeless encampments in there. They look abandoned but who knows. I'm not disrespecting the homeless. I was homeless 4 times myself...including now. (Bought my used RV with my pandemic money, right as I was about to retire.) So I do have a soft spot for the homeless. But some of them can be whack...emotionally challenged. Others can be desperate and steal. So I stayed out of that corner and gave then space, in case they returned.

We'll see if the manager comes out after dark and chases me out...like the East Cobb GA Walmart manager did to me and another guy 2 nights ago. No signs at all there about no overnight parking.

Update, 5:30pm
Just walked the dogs. Noticed something else I hadn't when I drove in. The parking lot has two of those 'robo cop' contraptions. I've encountered these as well...at Lowe's. They detect movement after hours and then LOUDLY then warn you that you are trespassing, your license plate has been recorded and you should leave the property immediately. Going to have to change dog walking from 1am until 1030pm, 30 mins before store closes and then not till 6am when they open.

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Days Stayed: 1

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5 Access
5 Location
3 Cleanliness
3 Site Quality
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September 21, 2021
Rated

Finding any campground, let alone a decently priced one with showers in the Chicago area is a challenge. Blackwell has a different issue...No camping on weekdays, only 1pm Fri thru Noon on Sunday. 47 hours. That's mostly why I give it 4 stars instead of 5. The other reasons are that areas to walk your dogs are quite a distance from most campsites as is the showers. You can walk your dog down the roads but they are rather narrow and because the forest and heavy brush is within a couple feet of the road, you often find yourself veryclose to passing vehicles or intruding on others' campsites by having to step into their driveway to avoid being run over. The showers are right up near the front gate...not centrally located...so quite a hike from most of the campsites.
On the plus side, it's a genuine camping experience. Most sites are separated by heavy brush. It's a heavily wooded forest preserve with a decent size lake and a river runs through it. (See what I did there? Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.) You can fish, rent boats, hike the woods or a small mountain. Showers/restrooms were spotless. Wood was pricey, $7 a bundle compared to $5 at most campgrounds. Campsite pricing is what seems to have become typical everywhere...$35 for non-county residents, $20 for county residents but they offer 2 free nights a year if you are 65+.
Finding a level site is a challenge. Most have some degree of slope to them, some small, some ridiculously steep. Some are long enough for RV's, some barely fit one car.
Big issue is making reservations. First of all, you can't make reservations less than 3 days in advance. I tried online 2 days in advance and couldn't. If there are sites still open at 1pm when the campground opens, first come first served. The website also showed the campground closed on Friday. On Saturday, it showed 5 spots open, 36, 37, 19, 18, 16. The last 3 are handicapped or 'ADA' . So I called the next morning.
"Campground is sold out the next two weekends but we are taking reservations for next year"
"Your website shows the campground closed on Friday and 5 spots open on Saturday."
"Don't know why the website shows closed on Friday, it's not and sites 36/37 are overflow sites for emergencies."
"If I show up at 1pm and the handicapped spots have not been booked, can I get one of those?"
"I'm not sure what they do on site. They might hold them till later in the day."
So I got there early Friday, 10:30am. I asked about getting a handicapped site at 1pm and she said, "Oh I give them away as soon as I'm here, if someone comes early." So I was able to snag one. I'd have had the weekend free if I was 65, she told me. Instead, only $40 for two nights, since I was a county resident. At midnight, I walked my dogs and noticed at least 8 empty sites in my camping section. Odd, for a night that was 'Sold out'. So I asked about it the next afternoon. 15 paid camping reservations didn't show up. And 20 more hadn't shown up the next day by 2 pm. The Ranger said that was 'normal' and that they couldn't resell the sites because of the no refund policy, that that would be 'double dipping'. And that is a shame because many campers are turned away, being told its sold out...when 15 sites remained empty instead. That's a bad glitch that needs some attention. I also asked why they don't allow camping on weekdays and that is because of people renting sites, pulling in and then disappearing for days at a time, instead of being there to camp, taking up spaces that could be used by others.
The campground is located less than half a mile from a major highway, so traffic noise is constant, day and night. An hour after dusk, the Ranger drives around in his golf cart, on his bullhorn, telling visitors to leave and campers that quiet hours are 10pm-8am. The police lock the gates during those times and campers are told they cannot leave the campgrounds and roam the forest preserve but you know...they do anyway.
Campground closes end of September.
Specs at the bottom of this page show only 20 amp. Not correct. They have 30 and 50 as well.

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Nightly Rate: $20.00

Days Stayed: 2

Site Number: 19

5 Access
5 Location
5 Cleanliness
5 Site Quality
2 Noise

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September 14, 2021
Rated

Good points...
- Spotless bathrooms
- Level gravel parking pads
- Surrounded by corn/soy bean field, a forest and a tall grass prairie protecting a small pond
- Very wide footpath/horse trail alongside/behind the pond and thru the prairie grasses.
- Zero bugs in the bathrooms
- Nice, new aluminum picnic tables, though I prefer the plastic ones recycled from tires at other parks.
- Recycling encouraged
- Handicapped spaces near bathrooms and pavilion are level concrete with raised fire pits.
- Nice, clean pavilion
- The hosts/gatekeepers were nice
- Equestrian camping

Bad points...
- This morning, they came by and mowed down a very large swath (roughly 700 ft long x 35 ft wide)of 6 foot tall prairie plants and grasses, granting access to the pond and opening it up to westerly winds that will blow trash into it, destroying animal habitat and probably animals (frogs) and leaving all the trash that had blown into the grasses previously. The only charm of this place was the tall prairie plants and grasses protecting the pond on all sides. Not anymore.
- No showers
- No trash cans in bathrooms. I threw my floss on the floor.
- Water spigots shared between and far from parking pads
- While the normal park grasses are mowed nice and short, they failed to mow the parking and picnic table pads, most with many unsightly tall weeds growing out of them.
- A LONG list of rules, things you can't do here. Filled an 8x11 piece of paper. Never saw so many before.
- If you want to extend your stay, you can't do it until the morning you are supposed to leave, after 8am and before 11am. I tried doing it two days earlier and the gatekeeper told me the county won't let us do it till the morning we were to leave.
- No shade and only one tree per site. Park is only 8 yrs old, so trees haven't grown enough yet. Give them another 8 years and they might be big enough.
- Saving the worst for last...$20 for county residents, $35 for non-county...almost double what county residents pay...and for no showers, no shade and distant water spigots. Do $20/30 or $25/30 or $20/25...$35 is too much for retirees on fixed incomes or families with large expenses. Also. No senior discount. I am 62, retired, living on a small fixed income. $35 a night is a lot of money for me.

What turned me off the most and will keep me from returning is the cost and destruction of the prairie plants and grasses right behind my RV, opening up the pond to man made and wind blown trash pollution.

Update
I asked the gatekeeper about the mowing of the prairie grasses and plants and he said the county wants to put in a fishing pier so people don't walk in the mud to fish. That's certainly an incentive for more people to camp here but it's a small pond and was better left protected by the grasses. That small, pristine pond will now fill with trash blown in by the wind and discarded deliberately and accidentally by camping fishermen.

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Nightly Rate: $35.00

Days Stayed: 4

Site Number: 84

5 Access
5 Location
5 Cleanliness
4 Site Quality
5 Noise

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May 15, 2022
Rated

No shade. No water hookups. One night only.
However...
Free, level, parking lot camping. Free electric. Free dump site. Nice adjacent park with a pavilion, kids park, bathrooms, water pump, shade.
Can't beat it.
Locals keep driving in though, just to walk their dogs in the tiny dog park. Kinda weird.
They also just randomly tear thru the parking lot.
Might make some people uneasy.
Police have driven thru though, at least twice during the nine hours I have been here so far.

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Nightly Rate: $0.00

Days Stayed: 1

Site Number: -

3 Access
3 Location
4 Cleanliness
3 Site Quality
3 Noise

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April 06, 2022
Rated

First, the good points...
- $22 for 50 amp site, $20 for 30 amp site. Cut those prices in half if you are 62+. I paid $11.
- Laundry room
- Free wifi
- A huge lake
- Pets allowed
- Lawn and weeds are well maintained
- Campground is adjacent to city park base/softball and soccer fields, so on game nights, you got something to do
- Recycling
- LOTS of room to walk dogs

Now, the bad...
Reservations are only by phone. I called 10 times, left two voice mails, in a two hour period before someone answered.
There is an online map of the campground on their website...but you can't pick your own site. They pick it for you and won't honor your requests for a specific site. This is a problem because...
Most of the sites are unshaded, lined up very close to each other, like a parking lot. There are a couple smaller areas under trees. Between the two different areas, I saw maybe 10 other spots I would have preferred instead. But you get what they give you.
Also, although most of the pads are asphalt...most are sloped/not level and many have uneven surfaces from cracks, crappy patch jobs and ruts from tires. It's bad.

Only 2 'pets' allowed per site. Usually, I have 3 dogs and 3 cats. Cats don't matter, they never go out. Three dogs is an issue at some campgrounds though. Normally, if I was staying longer than one night, I'd pass on a 2 pet limit campground but because I was only staying one night (to plug in for AC on a 92 degree TX day) and the price was so good...I decided to risk it.
Also, first place I ever camped at where you are fined for not leasing your dog and a hefty fine at that...$186. Not like they can chase me down though and go thru my pockets to grab the money.

Laundry room has 4 washers, 4 dryers...yet only one person is allowed in at a time. Hours are limited also, 10am-6pm...which reflects the exact times the office is open.

If you tell them you have two air conditioners...even if you tell them you only use one...they will assign you a 50 amp site. It's only $2 more but again...no choice in the matter...even if you want a nicer 30 amp spot.

Wi-fi is spotty. It kept disconnecting on me. Took an hour before it stabilized, with a weak signal and that's up front near the office.

Showers at the far end of the park are disgusting and the locked/coded door is broken. The locked one up front is in better, though not great condition. It could use an upgrade. Only two showers and the one by the back wall...has no handle...I guess someone stole it. So no way to turn it on/off/control temperature. The other one is fine.
Urinal is too tall for short guys like me.
Two sinks...one for shorter people/kids is nice...but the cold water doesn't work. It's scalding hot only.

Picnic tables are old and rotting. Need upgrades.

Several serious concerns here but you can't beat the price, so it's hard to complain. I'd probably come back for that reason alone, for a day or two. Longer would be nice but I'd hate to get here, be assigned a spot I don't like, on an uneven/bumpy pad and be stuck there because they won't let me pick my own site.
But the place will do in a pinch.

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Nightly Rate: $11.00

Days Stayed: 1

Site Number: 62

5 Access
4 Location
4 Cleanliness
2 Site Quality
4 Noise

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May 14, 2022
Rated

I haven't been to the park yet. Got reservation for tomorrow. Wanted to post this now however...A few reviews here have said this park campground is first come, first served. It is not. Maybe it was but now reservations are thru Reserve America. Click on the website link above. Glad I checked instead of taking people's word for it because there was only one site left.
There is also a $4 'reservation fee', so that $14 for one night becomes $18. Still a great deal.
Also, check-in isn't until 4 pm. Kind of ridiculous if you ask me. Most check-ins are around 2 pm. You can't even enjoy the park that first day because by the time you get unpacked, settled in and eat...the sun's going down.
More review after I've actually camped there...if I don't get eaten by a bear or bitten by a rattlesnake.

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Nightly Rate: $14.00

Days Stayed: 1

Site Number: 02

3 Access
3 Location
3 Cleanliness
3 Site Quality
3 Noise
November 11, 2021
Rated

After reading all the reviews here, I noticed no one mentioned anything about reservations. So I went to their website, where there was very little camping information. 'Click here for reservations'. So I did and it took me to ExploreMoreIL.com. When I went there, it said you needed to reserve at least 3 days in advance. Well, it was exactly three days in advance, so I tried. It showed every campsite open at $20 ea...until you entered dates...then it showed no campsites open! 'Unavailable'. So I tried other dates. All unavailable. So I called. Got a park employee that said the 3 day advance notice was for peak months, that right now it was first come, first served. That's why the reservations website wasn't working. He told me $30. I told him the website said $20 (plus some $5 surcharge thing). Asked about senior discounts. He didn't know anything about either one. So I went to the park, expecting to have to argue over $20 vs $30.
The campground host told me $20. Relieved. No arguing. Then he looked at my age on my driver's license and said, "$15 Mon thru Thur for seniors, $20 on weekends. $30 is only during holiday weekends." So I signed up for 3 weeknights, $45...and wound up staying for 9 days. It is that darn nice here.

Small, compact campground at only 50 sites plus maybe 10 more tent sites. Most sites are fairly close to your neighbor but there's a few with more space between. Lots of mature trees. Forest on 3 sides, more open state park grounds and the Ohio River on the other side. Nice, new, clean bathrooms which consist of 8 separate rooms. Yes, 8. Shower, sink and toilet in each room. You can lock the door and take as long as you want. Sites are either 30 or 50 amp. At least some of the sites are marked if they are 50. Small children's playground. Can't hook up to water, must be shared with other campers. LOTS of squirrels. 8 different times, day and night, 2-4 deer came into the campground. You learn to watch where you step! And thats it. Very simple, small, clean campground. In the woods...in a state park...within 500 feet of the Ohio River...with two trails, 2.5 and 8.7 miles long...with the remains of Fort Massac and a replica next to it...and a Visitor's Center/Museum...and a trout pond, aptly named 'Trout Pond'. And if that isn't enough, you can take the gravel road along the river, which goes under I-24, take a short hike or bike ride down to the river and view all the graffiti that generations of teenagers have displayed underneath the bridge. And if that isn't enough...yes, downtown Metropolis, Superman's home is less than 2 miles away with the 15 foot statue, streets named Truth, Justice and American Way, the Superman store and Museum, a few other stores with Superman items and other antiques, the Chamber of Commerce with its own museum/collectible/memorabilia that also sells Dippin Dots, the Noelle Neil/Lois Lane statue, the now vacant Metropolis Planet, a nearby cemetery where the Birdman of Alcatraz is buried and Harrah's Casino, right on the river...this is all within 4 miles of the campground...biking distance. Even closer...Big John grocery store with another big statue to rival that of Superman, Subway, Sonic, Dairy Queen, Hardee's. There is so much to see and do here, that I extended my stay from 3 to 9 days.

And there are few bad points...
- The showers are heated by tankless water heaters, so it takes time for the showers to heat up. The first one I went in was cold, then lukewarm, then cold again, then finally hot. The next one went from 5 mins of cold to all hot.
- No trash cans in the bathrooms. You're expected to bring your trash to the garbage cans outside.
- Despite the river being 500 feet away and downhill from the campground, during very heavy, extended rains, the river has come up and flooded out the campground.
- Homeless people live in the park. I was walking my dogs at 9:30pm and 6:30am, in the dark and was freaked out seeing a lone figure standing by a fire he had started at a park pavilion...right across the road from the campground.
- Hunting is allowed in certain areas of the state park, so take care if you are here Oct thru January.

That's really about it. 4.5 stars. I love it here.
I will be uploading many pictures.

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Nightly Rate: $15.00

Days Stayed: 9

Site Number: 13

5 Access
5 Location
5 Cleanliness
5 Site Quality
5 Noise

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April 05, 2022
Rated

No one has reviewed this campground in over a year. In researching and trying to make reservations...
- I found the reservation process tedious, confusing and time consuming. Took me about 30 mins to figure it out. You have to register on the website, confirm your reservation thru email before you can even access the camping reservations. Once there, there are no maps, no pictures to show you what's available or specs for each site. You have to guess which one to take and only after that are you given a map, which is messy. Again, no specs to know if your vehicle will even fit the site. No senior discounts. And only when you have exhausted every possible form to fill out, right before you pay, are you told its $35 + 3.07 tax.

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Nightly Rate: $38.00

Days Stayed: 0

Site Number: -

1 Access
1 Location
1 Cleanliness
1 Site Quality
1 Noise
February 23, 2024
Rated

I only camped here as a third choice, after two monthly campgrounds in Arkansas told me they didn't take credit cards, only cash or check. It's too bad that we sometimes only learn from our mistakes.

First, this Louisiana State Park charges $5 more than most or all other Louisiana State Parks for off-season rates. A two week stay cost me $211. At other LA state parks...$169.

There are only 26 campsites. None are on or near the water. You have to take a LONG walk or bike ride over to the Day Use Area to get to the two boat launch areas.

Of those 26 campsites, most of the asphalt driveways are not level and/or have deteriorated to the point where there are large holes in them. They're also only about 10 feet wide, instead of 12 feet. I saw one camper leave Site 3 and move over to Site 2 because the driveway was so bad.

Most of the sites are all dirt, which becomes mud when it rains. Only one or two sites have grass. Some have some gravel but the majority are just mud...no leaves, no pine needles, no grass.

I was on Site 1. My picnic table was 15 feet BEHIND my RV. I could only get to it by walking thru the mud. It was also closer to the driveway of the next campsite than it was my RV...less than 10 feet away. Not what I want to do, walk behind my RV, thru the mud so I can sit outside my neighbor's window.

The bathrooms were not cleaned the entire two weeks I was there. I know that because a green razor was still on the floor of the shower I used, the moth in the sink was still there every day, the garbage can was overflowing and NONE of the four stalls had ANY toilet paper in them. At four rolls per stall, that's 16 rolls of toliet paper not replaced in two weeks. The toilets were stained, people were using papers towels to wipe and tossing them in the trash next to the sink. There's also no benches in the showers to put your clothes or to sit on while you dry your feet/put on shoes/socks.

The bathroom building was pretty new. Yet of the 20 outside lights, only four of them worked. 16 lights burnt out. Also, one of the lights in one of the showers was out, another had a mind of its own, sometimes lit, sometimes not. Now...I'm not a fan of brightly lit campgrounds. I want that pitch black experience when I camp. So having a bathroom lit up like a Christmas tree with 20 lights would not have made me happy. It's just the lack of attention to keeping the bathrooms nice that irritated me. There's also a huge hole in the roof where a tree fell on it during a storm last fall that has not yet been repaired.

In the Group Camping/Picnicking area, there is a bathroom. It had burned up during a fire and also has not been bulldozed/replaced. It's an open, accessible hazard.

In the Day Use Area, there is a building marked 'Nature Center'. There's no nature center. It's being used as a storage building. And the door was unlocked.

There is a nature walk/playgound area for kids where I walked my dogs. It's totally gone to pot. Most everything is faded, dirty or broken. A giant Connect Four board is missing pieces. A giant Pachinko board has many broken pegs.

They have cabins for rent. Six small ones, #1-6 and 8 larger ones, #7-14. Most of them are surrounded by dirt/mud. Like the campsites, little or no grass. Only the larger ones are on the water. Smaller ones are in the day use area. If you're going to rent a cabin, I'd suggest #3 and #12 (or #9, I forget). Those are the only two mostly surrounded by grass.

This place is devoid of wildlife. I just came from Arkansas campgrounds - Opossums, raccoons, armadillos, eagles, hawks, seagulls, pelicans, coyotes, owls, deer, beavers, woodpeckers, squirrels, skunks. I saw or heard ALL of them in a two week period there. At Chemin-A-Haut...An armadillo, squirrel and woodpecker every now and then. Nothing else, except...

Gators. That's good or bad depending on your point of view. What's bad is that there are no signs or handouts warning about them. I didn't even know there were any there. I mean, I heard a couple big splashes, at night, when I was walking the dogs near the big cabins but didn't actually see one till I took a walk off the beaten path and saw a snout in the water that slowly backed out and disappeared as I got closer. I don't mind gators. I just have to watch my dogs more carefully.

Now the good things...

- All Louisiana State Parks give 50% off if you are 62+. The booking website says you need an America The Beautiful Pass but they eliminated that. You just have to show them your driver's license showing you are 62+. It's a great deal. You don't even have to be a resident.
- Free Wifi with four Wifi antennas around the very small park. So Wifi signal was always strong.
- Laundry room. Two washers, three dryers. Only $1.75 each. Clean, new machines. And you can pay thru an app if you don't have quarters...PayRange.com.
- The men's handicapped shower is hot hot hot with a very strong stream of water, not like those wimpy ones you often encounter. And the sinks have normal hot/cold handles, not the ones that shut off after five seconds.
- LOTS of open space, many places to walk my dogs.

I also have to add that homeless folk hang there. 11:30 one night, as I was walking my dogs, a small white truck pulls in the campground, parks outside the bathroom. I didn't see the person park or get out but when I came back from walking my dogs, from inside my RV, I saw a woman come out with a towel. She got in the truck and left the park. When I asked about it at the office the next day because they have a gate that's supposed to be locked at night...she told me they only sometimes lock it and that another homeless person, a guy, comes during the day to shower. Then there was ZZTopper.
Two days before I left, an old maroon truck with a camper attached comes in. The guy driving had a long grey/white beard and dark sunglasses on and some kind of hat. Later, as I'm in the passenger side captain's chair streaming, he walks past the front of my RV. He has his hand out and open but very close to his side...as if he's asking for a handout on the sly. I ignore him, pretend to keep watching my stream. He stops, stares at me. Now mind you, he still has on the hat and sunglasses, with that long raggy beard. He goes around the side of my RV, stops and stares at me, then walks back to his camper. The next day, I'm on the roof, cleaning branches and water off the awning and here he comes again, side of my RV, stops, stares at me. I ignore him, climb down, go inside my RV. He circles around the front of my RV, stops and stares at it/me. I see him later, just before I walk my dogs. He heads in one direction, down the road, on his bike. I wait till he disappears, go in the OTHER direction with my dogs, INTO THE WOODS, on a trail. A few minutes later, here he comes down the path behind me. Then, after I get back with the dogs, I see him cut across the campground, walk in front of my RV and stop and stare at me again. He walks up to the bathrooms, which are like 50 feet away from me, stops, turns and squats on the pavement for a few minutes, staring at the side of my RV. Then he gets up, walks back to his camper, again, past the front of my RV, stopping, staring. Mind you, for all these instances, he has on the sunglasses and hat, with his long, dirty beard and never once said one word to me...just stopped and stared. I left the next day because my time was up there but if it wasn't, I would have left anyway. The guy was creeping me out.
Now mind you, I have nothing against the homeless. You do what you gotta do to survive. Hell, I'm homeless. Covid killed my business, so I had to retire. Bank made me sell the house. I live on the road in my RV. So a couple homeless people using the shower isn't a huge deal. It might be for others though. But this last guy, following me around, stopping and staring at me, stalking me, never saying even one word...well that was too much. You have been warned.

Two out of five stars. One of the worst campgrounds I've ever been at. The only things that gave it two instead of one star was the free WiFi, great showers, nice laundry room and big, wide open areas to walk the dogs. I'll never go there again unless I have no other choice.

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Nightly Rate: $30.00

Days Stayed: 14

Site Number: 1

3 Access
3 Location
1 Cleanliness
1 Site Quality
4 Noise

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