Illinois State Fair Campground

An excellent, budget friendly, overnight spot.

On the state fairgrounds just off gate 10 or 11. Very large number of spaces…older bathrooms/ showers but very clean. All spaces seem to have electricity and water.

We always leave late on the first day of a trip and get stressed. This was an easy 3/4 day trip from our house and a great place to relax. Great thick grass carpet spots if you want.Great level paved pads if you want.Friendly checking , friendly security driving around all night. Lots of showers, mine was good and hot. Some traffic noise All kinds of open spots if it isn’t fair week. Don’t just show up fair week.

The showers were clean. Campsites are close together, but not to busy while I was there. Reasonable. Staff friendly. Security regularly drove around.

No frills, parking lot or grassy style campsites. $20 per night for a a pull behind RV on an electric/water site. $30 for a full hookup. Large clean bathrooms, dated but useable.

This is a nice campground with full hookup in the middle of the state fairgrounds. The host is very friendly and gave us a golf cart ride around the fairgrounds and took us to the farmers market. Site was a bit dirty, however the state fair had just ended. The sites are all on pavement, parking lot style.

You can tell it was designed to fit in the maximum number of sites. Perfect for events.

Great place to spend a night or even longer to see Lincoln historical sites!

$20 a night.  

Campground attendant Mike very nice and helpful.

Large campground over 300 sites.   All sites have electric, most have water.

Dump station.

Shaded camping on grass, only paved sites are the parking lot (no shade).

Short drive 2.5 miles to Lincoln home.

1 mile from Lincoln's Tomb. 

Somebody stole our outdoor carpet/rug which we left to mark our site when we went

 to visit the Lincoln sites.

Would stay here again

We came Labor Day weekend to site see Lincoln museum and when we arrived there were motorcycle races going on next to the camp office and shower house and it was packed! The host took us to the opposite side of the fair and found us a site with electric and water on grass near the harness track barns and across from the grandstand. There were alot of a class RVs there for the Morgan horse show going on in the Coliseum parked by us. No tables or fire rings. We were near public toilets but no showers in our area. It was fine for two nights

A large campground with water and electric. Few sites have sewer. You have the option of paved parking lot or on the grass. We chose the grass for the shade trees. Very quiet. Not too close to your neighbor. Take time to walk around the fairgrounds as they are pretty. The 4H building has a lovely garden out front. The grounds keepers were busy getting ready for the state fair in a couple weeks. There is a farmers market every Thursday which was nice. Got some wonderful sweet corn and vine ripe tomatoes. The dump station does not have hose hook up for water. There is water but you can’t hook a hose to it. That needs to be fixed as you cant wash down your spills or rinse your tank.

Overall a good place to stop for a day or two. One row of full hookups, like a parking lot layout. Not much space between campers however if you don’t need full hookups lots of elec only spots. Two large parking lots for RVs and lots of grass spots. Visited in April, the only crowed area was the full hookups. Nice host and lots of walkers that use the fairgrounds. Felt safe and very close to the sights.