Best Cabin Camping near Nora Springs, IA

Recent Cabin Reviews near Nora Springs, Iowa

77 Reviews of 13 Nora Springs Campgrounds

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  Joe S.

  Guide

  

  Oct. 29, 2021

  Hidden Bluffs Resort

  Spacious Campground

  Very nice campground! The campground is very spacious. However, when checking in at night at staying in the "upper campground", be aware that there is another road the is very steep right next to where you go for the upper campground. Make sure you are going in the correct one as there were not any markings to tell us which way to go. The pool and hot tub is a bit small, but the kids still had fun. There is fishing available from the stream that runs through the campground. You are able to have golf carts on site which is a plus! The trails are beautiful! There is a trail where you can hike up a big hill. That has some amazing views!

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  Taylor A.

  Guide

  

  Jan. 26, 2022

  Sportsman Park

  Nice small place

  Good little campground with tent,cabins and rv sites and reasonable

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  paul H.

  Scout

  

  Nov. 20, 2022

  Riverside Co Park

  Great full hookup 40 unit campgrount

  40 site Totally renovated 2 years ago nestled along the little Cedar river above the dam. New Shower house/bathrooms. Natural themed kids play area including a huge tree house. City water and sewer with 50 and 30 amp to each site. Man made swimming pond with a lighted waterfall. Volleyball and walking trails with primitive camping across the road. Cabin with air conditioning and fully furnished further up the river on 200 acres of county land. Fishing above and below the dam. Picnic table and fire ring at every site.

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  Peter H.

  Guide

  

  Oct. 22, 2020

  Thorpe Park

  Really neat little park

  Gorgeous little park right on a series of small lakes. Camping is in grassy and forested area. You dive on grass and park next to a table and power outlet. Many of these spots are not level and seem better suited to tents than larger RVs but some spots could work for vans, class C or small class A RVs. I also saw one cabin for rent. This is all near the water and has bathrooms and a water faucet. I also noticed pretty good AT&T cell coverage here. This area has historically been bad for cell coverage so maybe that is improving.

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  Michael C.

  Scout

  

  Jul. 30, 2019

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Whitefox Campground

  This campground has a TON of sites!  There are close to 60 sites in all, about a third to half of those are electric sites.  If you like open spaces, this is a wonderful place to camp.

  Beautiful, clean, and recently updated bathrooms and showers!

  So much wildlife to see at this park.  Seeing large groups of deer was a daily/nightly thing!

  The park has 20+ miles of hiking trails through prairies, woodlands, and along the lake too!  PLus the park offers geocashing (and free GPS rental), as well as canoes, kayaks, paddle boards, and a small fishing that can be rented!

  A lot to offer here!

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  Tracy B.

  Guide

  

  Jul. 22, 2024

  Riverside Co Park

  Great little city/county park!

  Beautiful large sites along the river so you can fish as well as has a pond that you can swim in with three beach entry areas. Large bath house with restrooms and showers and a little free library inside. Very long parking pads- big rig friendly and very roomy sites. Nice walking trails on the east and south side of the park. Very creative natural play park for children to play on. Full hook up sites with a very reasonable nightly rate. It appeared that some of the campsites were seasonal but couldn’t confirm that.

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  Eric J.

  Scout

  

  May. 26, 2022

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  This place is a GEM

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

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  Jacob B.

  Scout

  

  Feb. 21, 2022

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Enjoyable

  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

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  Tiffany

  Scout

  

  Jul. 13, 2021

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Our favorite

  This is our favorite place to camp. Never overcrowded, they have activities put in by Friends of Pilot Knob such as movie nights. Lots to do like hiking, biking, and fishing. Very clean bathhouse and bathrooms, park. Family friendly and quiet place to camp.

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  Nichole L.

  Scout

  

  Apr. 29, 2019

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Wonderful place to go

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

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  Michael W.

  Traveler

  

  Aug. 26, 2018

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Great place to First night camp

  If you are picking up a camper from Lichtsinn RV in Forest City they offer to let you stay on their lot with electric hookups during your pick up. But, we found it a little more private and less intimidating to set up camp down the road just a few miles at Plot Knob State Park. Nice level sites with electric hook ups, clean restrooms and showers. Gave us the opportunity to unload our car and figure out our new motorhome without feeling like we were being watched. We didn't explore to much but we noticed they have several hiking trails. Very nice and quiet.

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  Michael W.

  Traveler

  

  Aug. 26, 2018

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Camping in the woods near town

  Located by New Ulm, MN this campground has plenty of activities in the park or very near the park. Plenty of hiking trails, playground for the kids, and an amazing sand bottom swimming pond surrounded by sand beach. Golf is also nearby at The New Ulm Country Club which is open to the public. Nice level sites with electric, picnic tables and fire rings.

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  Lisa M.

  Guide

  

  Jul. 14, 2018

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Needs a little tender loving care

  Great hiking trails.

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  Madison L.

  Scout

  

  Jun. 1, 2019

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Pilot knob is AMAZING!

  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!!

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  Lisa P.

  Ranger

  

  Jul. 8, 2019

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Lots of room

  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.

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  Roger

  Guide

  

  Sep. 14, 2024

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Great site to camp - non electric sites are $10.00 -“and electric are $18.00

  Nice place to spend the weekend or a week! Came in late and a resident helped me find a great spot. When driving to my site two fawns were laying near the playground.

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  Roger

  Guide

  

  Sep. 16, 2024

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Great place!

  Standard site without electric was only $10.00 a night which includes a nearby water spigot to fill your tank with. Put toilets and showers available. The friendly hosts made a point to come by to chat. Two fawns were born there, under one of the picnic tables and they were around all weekend. I’ll be back !

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  Lee D.

  Legend

  

  Mar. 25, 2023

  Pilot Knob State Park — Pilot Knob State Preserve

  Layout of campground would be challenging if full

  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.

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  michelle

  Traveler

  

  Oct. 5, 2022

  Wilder City Park

  Beautiful city park

  Wilder Park is a beautiful city park. Very much a gem, quiet and peaceful . 50 + sites with about half of them full hook up. Costs for a full hook up in 2022 was under $25 a night. The park has two fishing areas, a dog park,pickle ball, volleyball mini golf, basketball and two playgrounds. A beautiful walking and bike path connects the parks to the neighboring cities. A free dump is also available. We highly recommend this park. 1

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  Jeremy N.

  Scout

  

  May. 22, 2018

  Wilder City Park

  great family campground with lots to do with the family.

  they have sand volleyball pickle ball miniature golf and huge checkers plus a couple playgrounds for the kids. it's a nice quiet family campground.

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  Ken K.

  Guide

  

  Aug. 7, 2022

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Stop over between other parks

  I've been using this as a night over stop before going on to the Black Hills or on my way back home. The first time I stayed the night over there it was a nightmare just because of this family or group of people showed up late and didn't comprehend quiet hours. So needless to say I had little to no sleep.

  The other times I've stayed there it was quiet and not too many people around. Kind of buggy but that's expected with the water and all the shade.

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  Katelyn H.

  Traveler

  

  Jul. 4, 2022

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Impressive operation

  The facilities and space are beautifully kept. If you are looking for a swimming destination it might not be in my top ten, but they have tons of availability of watercraft! Most impressive part to me is their accessibility! They have a trek chair/track chair? Which for anyone wanting to hike with mobility issues it offers a lot of access.

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  Cheryl W.

  Guide

  

  Aug. 8, 2021

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Nice state park

  This is a rustic state park with limited amenities. There are no water or electric hook ups. However clean water is available in the park. The park does have flush toilets and showers. We found these to be in good condition and clean. The showers had warm water. The water stream is on a timer and so are the lights. The shower stalls are Individual stalls. The interior roads are dirt roads with a few potholes they are very narrow. The camping sites are nice sized and relatively private. There is a gravel pad on each site and some have a tent pad. Each site had a picnic table and a fire ring. There are plenty of walking and biking trails and there are walk-in tent camp sites. However, you cannot see the lake from the campground and there is no access to the lake from the campground. We were able to drive through the campground with our 40 foot fifth wheel. But just barely, be careful! 

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  Shari M.

  Guide

  

  Aug. 10, 2021

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Peaceful

  We arrived on a Sunday and stopped at the Park Welcome area. We got the last spot with electric for 3 nights. Nice staff! Ice was available.

  $34/night plus Minnesota State Park pass @ $8/day.😩

  Not super spacious but very comfortable distance between spaces. Well maintained dirt road in campground. Grassy and mowed. Nice big trees! Water spigots. Very nice individual, clean rooms for showers.

  Two separate campground loops in the White Fox area and another couple loops half mile down the road

  The lake is gorgeous but just a few places to get to the water. Saw a sign on the park door saying kayaks and canoes available to rent.

  Six miles of paved, but badly in need of care, is a bike path that meanders through thick forest and open grassy fields. Follows the lake and heads close to the town of Albert Lea.

  We saw a guy setting out electric scooters that were available to rent which looked like fun!

  Birds and deer abound.

  Walmart 2 miles away!

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  Scott K.

  Guide

  

  Sep. 13, 2021

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Nice State Park

  This is a nice well-kept campground. That is a mix of primitive and electric only sites.. sites are spacious with most having trees between each of the campsites for privacy. And her in number of water stations in each camping loop where you can fill up your RV as well as an RV dump station that has a separate spigot for water fill also. There are a couple of primitive vault toilets as well as a restroom and shower facility in between both loops. The reservation was $24 a night but when you get to the office to check in you also have to purchase a $7 per day vehicle permit so that you can drive your personal vehicle and the park. So with I told vehicle and the additional vehicle it was an extra $14 per night. Oh no it's a really nice campground I'll be a little pricey for primitive camping. We're averaging 10 to 12 Mbps on T-Mobile and probably about the same for Verizon.

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  Troy L.

  Guide

  

  Sep. 21, 2021

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Awesome Site

  Facilities are top notch and private. The nicest showed and restroom you can imagine. Large tent pads and a quiet area. Not busy when we went. There is a small hiking trail as well. The lake isn’t anything spectacular, it’s quite dirty but we were only there for a night.

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  anne K.

  Guide

  

  May. 4, 2022

  White Fox — Myre-Big Island State Park

  Newer Facilities, neat landscape

  We stayed on the mainland campground White Fox in site #78, bordered on 3 sides by trees and shrubs for privacy. The bathroom/ shower facilities were very recently done. This park is unique as you can drive across a causeway and get on the Big Island which has more trails and another campground. We were here in May and the bugs were awful (I get it, they're part of being out in nature). At one point I just had to yell "RUN" at my partner as I fled with our dog because the may flies were swarming so thickly that it was all you could hear and see. Great park with lots of history, check it out and enjoy.