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Staff was very friendly. Plenty of open sites and she let us picked a site and suggested site E since we said we wanted shade. We stuck with her suggestion. On top of a hill looking down on the campers.

Nice park. Only issue is the freeway noise. We backed up to the lake and a bright street light that takes away from the atmosphere.

This KOA has seen it’s better day. There is no trail to the beach. I asked the office where the trail to the beach was and if it was marked. She said she didn’t know. She’s never been on the trail. We found which appeared to be an old ATV trail that appeared to have connected to an old over grown, filled with down trees trail but we couldn’t find a beach as it listed on the map. The park does overlook the lake though. The horse shoe pits are all overgrown with weeds and they haven’t been used in years.

Confirmation email stated check in time is 4:00 pm. We arrived around this time and found there was no water available at the site or any site at lease in the south loop. We found one sticker for water near the dump station. No water at the dump station and the bathroom was blocked off. We were going to go into town and noticed the sign near the gate that stayed the gate closed at 5:00. We couldn’t believe they would lock us out of the campground so we waited until after 5:00 to see if this was true-yes it’s true. The gate was locked. Looks like you only have 1 hour to check into this place. Doesn’t make sense.

We came to this site and neglected to check for electric and water. The ranger was very accommodating snd placed us in the last electric:water site (73) available 3 minutes before the ranger station closed for the night. Of course it cost us more but I was ok with that for my mistake. Awesome views. Would definitely stay here again. It’s a better site than we had originally.

Arrived on Sunday and a little noisy with campers but most left on Sunday. Very peaceful looking at the lake. The campsite is about 15 ft from the water filled with cypress trees. Sites next to the lake are kind of cramped. Sunset last night was awesome. Nothing to do in town or around St. Joseph that we could find.

Some comments indicate this place is quiet. Not really. We were on site 15 right next to the water and there is a constant hum from the traffic. No trees on lot 15 but that was fine with us with the cold snap the south was having this last couple of weeks, the sun felt good. The sites are far apart. The only drawback was there are no fire rings located in the sites. However, there are a few community fire rings located throughout the park. It would have been nice to have a fire on those cold nights while we were there.

Nice people. Site was clean and level. Bathroom facilities were nice and clean. No cell service for verizon. Wi-Fi was bad. Have to travel a few miles down the road to get either. It has a central fire pit but wish it had one on each site. Nights were chilly when we were here.