Hidden Paradise Campground

What is the best of the best for all in the family?  A quarry full to swim with an aqua playground, with use of free life preservers. a creek to kayak or float and a clean campground!  Life is good.

Campground, quarry and creek

We love this campground so much that we return every year! Great riverside sites. We take our own rafts and kayaks, although both are available for rent/purchase at the camp store. Our boys &amp; friends spend most of their time in the river, but also enjoy the quarry lake with inflatables &amp; paddle boats. 
The campground also has fabulous cabins at a reasonable price. Our friends without campers join us in the cabins. All together there were 50+ in our party this year &amp; a good time was had by all! 

It’s an Annual Tradition!

We stayed in site 107 on a Sunday night and had the section all to ourselves.  I think the place is quite busy on weekends though.  Our son fished and we watched random people float down river.  It was perfect for overnight stay passing through.  I was concerned driving in as neighborhood looked a little sketchy but was pleasantly surprised once inside campground.

Nice camping on the river

They have many activities, but we were stopping just for the night. It was a campground I would definitely go back to. 

A truly hidden paradise 

Hidden Paradise:
(Scale 1- bad, 5-Very good
(70 yr olds in 17’ trailer)
Overall Rating:  4: Most all campers are here to enjoy the water and groups enjoying each other.  
Price 2023:  About $51 to $56
Usage during visit: During our time: Very heavy on weekend and very empty during the week. 
Site Privacy:  No low shrubbery to offer privacy.
Site Spacing: Decent for a private park.  Some families reserve side by side site.  
Site surface:  gravel and grass
Reservations:    You better if it’s a weekend.  
Campground Noise:   There is fun noise , but nothing out of line.  Staff is visible and seem to do a good job of maintaining order etc 
Road Noise:  This campground is nicely nestled away from public roads. 
Through Traffic in campground: No issue. 
Electric Hookup:    Yes 
Sewer Hookup:     No
Dump Station:    Yes 
Potable Water Available: At the site.  
Generators:  Not needed 
Bathroom:  Yes and clean 
Showers:     Yes and clean 
Pull Throughs:   Some pull overs and pull through.   
Cell Service (AT&amp;T).  Pretty good. The park has internet for guests.   Check to see where in the campground the strongest signal is. 
Setting:  Open park like with scattered trees.  Along the bank are the nicest and most popular sites.  
Weather:  Some occasional thunderstorms.   80s.  
Bugs:   None during our stay
Solar:   Most sites will work for portable panels if needed. 
Staff: Active. 
Rig size:   There are spaces for large trailers and RVs   
Best Sites:  Along the river.  Best: 60(most private - back in site. ), 68,69 ( a bit more spacious- pull over sites along river. 67 is spacious on one side and other side is blocked if a small trailer is backed in . 
146 is not along river, but if you back in it is more private.    Our corner site offered privacy when we pulled our trailer in forward onto the grass.  However behind us, a trailer sits on high ground.


Fun in the water  

We came in at 10 pm in search for our site. It’s about a 1/2 mile from the main road. It’s a big place we noticed at daylight. Nice playground, appears they have some cabins to be rented, some sites were on the water, very clean and maintained. 40 miles from Greenwood, In. Sites are large and easy to maneuver our 42’ 5th wheel. Our site had full hookup, flat ground so easy setup. The only cos are- while the campground sign can be seen from the main road on the
way in- it all disappears in the dark after you turn onto the road. It’s needs to be marked better. Had there been arrows or signs it would have made it SO much easier. Day or night. 
We felt our way to the office since there were a few roads going in opposite directions. The girl said she’d leave our paperwork at the office. No paperwork or maps. This little road is quite narrow, has some pretty tight turns with trees on both sides and in the night it’s hard to tell where the rear end of your camper is on the turns where there are trees close to the road, if it’s a long one like ours. So needing to back up would literally be a nightmare. We drove down this little road quite a while unsure if we were heading in the right direction for the office. An office sign finally appeared like a beacon in the night about 3/4 mile off the main road- but at that point if we would have been incorrect it would have been a long way to back up our 42’ in the dark on these little roads. A lot of campgrounds make this mistake. They don’t plan on people coming in at night into a strange campground. There were several roads leading in different directions and it was hard to tell which one was the “main” road had there been directionals showing which road went to which sites would have been helpful. Site numbers were hard to see unless you walked up to each site with a flashlight. Not sure why campgrounds make their site numbers so allusive. Either they aren’t marked at all, they’re so small you can hardly see them or there is no rhyme or reason as to where they put them. Consistency would be great!!!!! It was just very difficult to navigate in a strange campground in the dark. Like many I’m sure we ended up just walking in front of the truck with a flashlight to be able to see the numbers. 
We avoid setting up in the dark at all costs because it’s absolutely the worst but sometimes you just get caught for various reasons- and there should be a better way. 