Lake Poinsett State Park Campground

Beautiful place to camp. Everyone running the park was super nice and accommodating. The only drawback that I can think of was the mosquitos. Shower house/bathroom cleaned and well maintained.

PROS 

Senior discount 

Reserved on-line 346 prior to arriving 

Good overnight stop for$25 

Very small park and campground 

Site#4 totally level 

Site#4 some shade 100% gravel site 

Metal picnic table that was moveable 

One hook lantern pole 

Metal fire pit with cooking grate 

Pedestal BBQ grill (looked brand new) 

CONS 

30amp electrical breaker bad. 

Tripped twice in 8 hours. 

Single lane campground road extremely tight. If campsites across from ours wasn’t empty, it would of been extremely difficult to get our 28ft backed-in 

Our reserved campsite#4 was occupied upon our arrival and campers tried to convince us to take another site that they were suppose to move to, but it was much smaller, so we declined 

Never saw any rangers patrolling campground 

Train noise from tracks in Harrisburg 

4 unisex toilets/showers for all 26 campsites PLUS 4 tent sites! 

One-lane dump station 

No TP in campground toilets 

No camp-host or even a full hook up site for one 

No security gate closure overnight 

No WIFI 

1 bar LTE

We stayed over Memorial Day weekend. Every site was booked but not crowded. Had a wonderful time fishing and hiking the 1.3 mile trail. This was our first stay, but will return. No Cell service for ATT. There is WiFi at the bathhouse, but was very sketchy due to the busy weekend. No swimming at the park. It is not allowed. Fishing is catch and release only except for Catfish and Brim due to recently reopening the lake.