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Nice view. Everything else is crap.

The ranger doesn't exist.

Bathrooms and showers on our side are closed despite it being spring break and sold out.

Distance to electric and water hookups is ridiculous and required two fifty foot water hoses and two rv extension cords, the three items together can be purchased from Walmart in town for about $150 dollars.

Entire campground subject to unexpected flooding due to being in the spillway of the dam so you have to be prepared for that at all times. There's no warning that this could happen other than old timers and seasonals that know and tell campers.

My campsite was ponding for about twelve hours.

There's no trash dumpster except at the exit.

Obviously no maintenance is done. There's a hole where the sanitary basket should be in the ladies room (the one a quarter mile from my campsite, that was open).

No ranger to enforce the quiet hours or anything approaching law here.

They don't mow, there's thigh-high daisies growing as you come into the camping area.

You can't Google maps this campground and there's little to no signage.

Look, if you are allergic to fire ants, you need to go somewhere else.

Good:
Spacious sites
Reasonably easy to get to--just keep following signs until you get to the "Oak Grove" one. There's four other campsites.
Sewer hookups right on site, so easy.

Bad:
No soap in the flushing bathrooms.
No actual oak trees, no low foliage at all, so shade isn't as good as at other parks. Just scrubby tall pines
Lake was drained "for the farmers, due to drought"
No swimming due to lake being drained.
Friend at neighboring site had no electricity
SO MANY FIRE ANTS. We were basically swarmed. They started coming in the camper, even. Found them in a tied-up Ritz Crackers container.

I would stay here again, but only if I brought a ton of that fire ant killing stuff.