Turkey Bayou Campground

Plenty of space and nicely maintained Porto potty

Nobody here. Bring a fishing pole. No services except a porta potty.

This is a beautiful location. Straight off the main road, it felt like 3 miles, but I'm not sure. It was really late when I rolled in. Porta potty, low bandwidth LTE AT&T service. Lots of people staying but plenty of sites. Most were fishing. Check out the awesome hike a Little Grand Canyon. It was one of the best I've done.

Stayed a night and loved the quiet. Heavily wooded. 10 mins of gravel, some rough spots but ok for a car. Porta potty only and no running water. 20 mins to town. Would stay again!

Back in sites along the water, tetherball, lantern hangers, picnic tables, porta potty, fire pits, boat ramp - sites with both full sun, full shade or in between - we took full sun exposure to power our solar panels.

The only downside is the drive in - 4 miles of gravel road that was slow going in our 36’ class A - lots of overhanging trees that will rip a TPO roof (ours was ok with a fiberglass roof). We are 11’8” at the roof.

Well worth the drive in just plan for going slow if you have a large rig (especially tall)

We had 2 bars of service with Verizon 4g and 2 bars on T-Mobile 4g service. Speeds were 12 down/3 up and 3 down/.5 up respectively.

Last week of September, arrived on a Saturday and half the sites were open (most folks chose shaded spots)

Noise will all depend upon who your neighbors are when you stay (like most places). Sites have adequate space between them so you feel like you are camping and not overhearing eighties talking.

Several of the sites can fit a 45ft RV

Would return again.

We pulled in to see many of the large sites available and picked the one with a tree for shade looking over the river. We pitched our tents and then drove to the Little Grand Cayon for a quick hike before dusk.

Perfect campground. Clean, right next on the water, only 2 other groups (~20 sites total), and FREE. Though no trash or showers--only porta-potty.

I went camping alone and there weren’t too many people here but I know if I screamed there would be people that heard me lol spectrum Mobile works out here and the lake is beautiful.

I enjoyed turkey bayou a lot. Was not expecting such a great place, for free none the less. Definitely be coming back.

We took a chance camping here since we hang hammocks but we found a site that had some trees nearby. We were pleasantly surprised to see a port-a-pottie at the campground. It was clean and had toilet paper.  Middle of the week in June and the campground was about half empty. Very peaceful place. We could hear the fish jumping all night.

A few miles down a dirt road this is a beautiful campsite with great volunteer hosts. Stayed during the eclipse so crowds were intense but the hosts lets us camp where we could find room, the site was clean and the pond was beautiful (as always bring the bug spray when camping near the water).

This simple, FREE campground is in a beautiful location by the Big Muddy River. It is volunteer run and relatively well-kept up, but there are not many amenities. It's like front country, back country camping. There is no toilet and or water spigots, so bring your back country shovel and fresh water.

What this campground does have is beauty, a lake, and the Big Muddy River nearby. There are wooded areas in the campground, but the sites near the water are wide open with not much privacy. Many fisherman and hunters use this campground during the season, but when we camped in the early spring, there were only 2 other campers in the whole campground.

My husband and I camped here on a whim while traveling through southern Illinois. While cooking dinner over the campfire, the sun was setting over the lake and caused us to stop what we were doing just to enjoy the show that Mother Nature was providing for us!