Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

I3rd got a few awesome things to see. Hiking trails. Picnic area. We have gone a grew times a year and love it!

Wonderful place to go

Pilot knob state park is a great place for a week long stay or just a few hours! 

The camp ground is on the smaller side but it’s clean and there is a play ground! There is the town of Forest City just a few miles away and it has pretty much everything you need for a stock up for your next adventure!!

Pilot knob is AMAZING! 

Pull through sites, bathhouse was clean and showers were individual room with timed lights, motion sensors kept the shower interesting! Got to see turtles laying eggs and deer were all around. Family loved the fishing.

Lots of room

For $12/night on a 30AMP hookup, I really can't complain. This is my first of many stops 
in the new RV, needed a place to camp out before getting it serviced the next day. Enjoyable scenery,  especially at sunset


Enjoyable 

Beautiful campground. Well maintained. Nice facilities. You can’t beat this place for the price. Nice hiking trails too. 

This place is a GEM

**General:** A mixture of tent (non-electric) and electric sites, mostly arranged in several rows. 

  

**Site Quality:** Mixed. Not all sites are level, and most do not have delineated parking pads (there is a small pavement indent to show where to access the site). A fire pit and picnic table complete the site. Most of the sites are too close together for our liking, however, when we were there (a Monday at the end of August, the day before school started), we were only one of three sites occupied so for our stay it didn’t matter. 

  

**Bathhouse:** Basic but clean. My biggest complaint is there were no hooks or shelves for toiletries by the sinks. The showers looked nice but we did not use them. 

  

**Activities:** Horseback riding (there are trails for this), hiking, fishing. Although we did see several trailheads, I did not have a map so didn’t explore them. There is an observation tower, but it is a two-mile walk/drive from the campground (on paved roads; I didn’t try to find hiking trails to get there). 

  

**Misc:** A shout-out to the great host, Pam, who greeted us as we arrived. The observation tower, entrance gates, and picnic shelter were all constructed by the CCC and were beautiful. It almost seemed like the campground was an afterthought as it is outside the entrance gates and nowhere near the tower. The layout of the campground would be challenging if all sites were occupied.