Green River Oaks Camping Resort, near Amboy, Illinois, is a sprawling family-friendly campground that offers a wealth of activities and amenities to keep everyone entertained. With over 130 acres of well-maintained grounds, you'll find plenty of space to set up camp and enjoy the great outdoors.

The campground boasts two heated swimming pools, playgrounds, and a variety of sports courts, making it a hit with families. Visitors rave about the fishing opportunities on the nearby Green River and Lake St. George, where you can cast a line or paddle around in a kayak. One camper noted, “This place has more amenities than Disneyland!” 

Clean facilities are a highlight here, with well-kept bathrooms and showers that make it easy to freshen up after a day of fun. The friendly staff, led by the family that owns the campground, ensures a welcoming atmosphere, and many guests appreciate the themed weekends that keep things lively during the summer months.

Located just a short drive from Amboy, you can easily venture out for local dining options or explore nearby trails for hiking and biking. Whether you're camping in a tent, RV, or one of the cozy cabins, Green River Oaks offers a great mix of relaxation and adventure for all ages.

Family owned and operated, we pride ourselves on being an affordable FUN destination for families of all sizes. You will never be charged additional daily fees for your own dependent children, nor will you incur any "resort fees" typical of our industry. Your nightly site rental fee or annual Seasonal fee is all you pay to enjoy most of the amenities and services that we have to offer! Our planned activities and themed weekends will keep your group entertained for the entirety of your stay! You are welcome to participate in all of our activities or just sit back and RELAX, while taking in the beautiful scenery and serenity of our remote setting on 130 acres. We offer annual Seasonal sites and overnight, weekly and monthly site rentals for tents and campers. For those that desire the comforts of home, we offer rental options including park models, cabins and travel trailer rentals. Leave behind the hustle and bustle of your every day life, and escape to Green River Oaks Resort for a few days, a weekend, a month or join us for the whole season! We welcome reunions and camping groups of all sizes. Come see what you've been missing!

Green River Oaks Camping Resort

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Great place with reasonable rates and tons of family friendly activities, but also tons of people. We explored to grounds along the river and found a few secret beaches and spots to enjoy nature. Good place for fishing too. Seasonal spots looked nice as well. Very open sites. Close to others.

Lots to do but lots of people too! 

The staff at Green River Oaks Resort really put a lot of thought and love into the campground. Everything is very family friendly. They have a wonderful activity director that loves children, and the children adore her. I really like that golf carts are not allowed. I do not need to worry about my children getting hit by irresponsible drivers. I also like that we do not have to pay extra to use the pools or for the majority of the activities. Every year updates are made on resort, and the facilities are kept clean. Our family loves camping at Green River Oaks!

We LOVE Green River Oaks!

They have two pools and themed weekends for kids.

Quiet inviting and great for families 

The campgrounds were a little run down they have two pools one of them was green and there mini golf was over grown with weeds. It's almost twice as much as other campgrounds in the area. We probably won't go back because of that. Our site was fine enough room. Had a cute little store.

Expensive for what you get

Although it has many permanent campers, if you can get a site, it is clean and well ran.

Clean Camp

First time here, family had fun. Place was clean, they have a nice little store filled will goodies, kids enjoyed the pools and other activities they had going on for the weekend. Wish the mini golf course was fixed bc it looked like it would be fun

Had a great time

We're fairly new campers and our friends introduced us to GRO. It's a perfect distance from home for a weekend trip. Plenty of stuff for our kids to do. Pools, activities, playgrounds, fishing, etc. Friendly service, too! 

Great sites and amenities!

Clean bathrooms and showers, well maintained sites with water and electric. A bit cramped for tent camping as sites are small and no space between neighbors. 

However 2 pools, activities, green river at back of campground for fishing, tubing, and trail hiking. 

Great family owned campground

Wow!  This place is massive!  That was my first impression when visiting this family-owned and operated campground located just outside of Amboy, here in northern Illinois, where the sheer veracity of this place (some 130 acres in total) is simply enormous. While when I think of anything too oversized (big trucks, big houses, big buffet lines), I tend to cringe, because, you know, oversized anything comes with pretty big drawbacks, right?  But somehow, the concept of oversized here isn’t terribly bad – there’s space, and very good distance between you and the folks that would be your neighbors. These grounds are pretty well taken care of and very well organized. 

  

As for the campground, there’s a number of snaking gravel roadways that will have you navigate the entire property, which by my count, takes up about 4-5 football fields – sometimes hilly, sometimes flat – of cleared north central Illinois farmland. Surrounding the campground is a fairly good wall of brush, ancient Oak and Walnut trees, and of course, the ever-present, and now in late Autumn, completely barren corn fields. 

  

Amenities?  Yeah, this place has more amenities than Disneyland! The basic hook-ups for RVs can be found here (30 / 50 amp electrical, water and sewage) along with 2 heated swimming pools (although they shut off the heat towards the end of the season in late October), 2 playgrounds, ball pits, carpet ball tables (don’t ask), great fishing on nearby Lake St. George where you’ll catch blue gill, bass and even some catfish as well as Green River – which is truly the gem of this place – where you can fish, canoe, kayak, inner-tube and otherwise float down this small stream), free arts &amp; crafts for the kiddos, kayak rentals, free WiFi in select spots (trust me, the signal is not terribly great), a cost-free bike exchange program, community library, courts of all kinds (volleyball, tennis and basketball), shuffleboard, horseshoe pits, mini-golf course (I know, I can’t believe it either!), rec room with foosball, billiards (or pool as it’s called around here), air hockey, video games, card tables, etc. There’s even a baseball diamond here! You’ll discover a laundry room, folding area, general store with snack bar, proper dump station as well as even a propane filling station. Geez, this is one long list of amenities! 

  

This place is family owned and operated by Dennis and Nanette Gillan – who are two of the nicest people I’ve ever met – and offers pricing by the night, week, month or by the season. Truth be told, you can drop anchor here for the whole year if you’d like, although it’s fairly desolate and deserted during the winter months. Best part? Even if you don’t have a tent or RV of your own, this place has you covered by offering affordable leasing options for both RV’s and some pretty sweet cabins. 

  

Here’s something noteworthy – while I didn’t get to enjoy with my family when we were visiting during the Fall, apparently, during the summer, each week has a theme attached to it (e.g. Barnyard Palooza), and subsequent activities organized around it, so if you’ve got kids that you are thinking about putting in a camp during the summer, this might be a really good option for you. Did I fail to mention that there’s even a free arts &amp; crafts class for the kiddos every weekend? This place is truly VERY family-friendly.   

  

Insider’s tip? Here’s a few: (1) If you get tired of eating beans and dogs fireside, fret not, just a short drive from Green River Oaks to nearby Amboy, where I recommend the fried chicken over at Long Branch Saloon (although their family-style pasta offering is pretty good too); (2) If it’s your thirst that needs quenching, then just head on over for a tall boy at Depot Tap or Last Alarm for daily drink specials and some seriously bad Karaoke; (3) If you come bearing any sort of watercraft, while the Green River is nice, for more challenging waters to navigate, head due north to Dixon for some pretty gnarly currents on the Rock River; and (4) For a truly amazing outdoor immersion, head a bit further north to Lorado Taft, where you’ll have plenty of trails to explore, all from a scenic overlook where there’s a towering statue of the great Indian chief, Black Hawk.  

  

Happy Camping!

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