Gun Lake Campground — Yankee Springs Recreation Area

Reviewed Sep. 7, 2024

Too packed in!

Spaces were too tight , even with a small camper. Work People were parked half in the road , leaving us with no way to pull in or out of campsite

Month of VisitAugust

Russell J.

Reviewed Jun. 2, 2022

Lots of space!

Found a good spot that has lots of room. Dog friendly! I've been coming here since I was a kid. I recommend you stay at this place.

Site199

Month of VisitJune

Gina K.

Reviewed Apr. 22, 2022

Family friendly!

Love this campground it’s semi modern sites, weekends are always busy. Kids have plenty of room on the beach and shaded grass area. You can walk the trail to the state park beach and store. Bathrooms are clean.

Sitemany

Month of VisitJune

Stacia L.

Reviewed Apr. 20, 2022

Crowded

Beautiful area, but tight campsites, great kid’s activities and trails.

Month of VisitSeptember

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Randy S.

Reviewed Oct. 23, 2021

State camp grounds

It was pleasant nice lot's of others even late in the season

Site88

Month of VisitOctober

Jacob K.

Reviewed Apr. 4, 2021

Modern camping

If you like modern camp sites then it’s a great spot. A little too crowded for my tastes, but there are some good hiking and biking trails near by we enjoyed. Be careful what campsite you get though because flooding was a problem last time I was there. We got 2-4” of rain overnight.

Mike P.

Reviewed Aug. 31, 2020

We will be back

My wife, 2 kids and myself spent a weekend here. Campground was quite quiet, sites were fairly large and level. The beach area is large and sandy but where you access the lake is kind of small. Quite a bit of watercraft on the lake but only heard 1 or 2 boats from our site. 2 items kept it from 5 stars in my book, 1 it was kind of difficult to find the campground entrance as it’s not very well labeled and the dump station takes a bit to get through. We were in line for about an hour before we dumped and we pulled off our site at 1. The two annoyances however aren’t deal breakers and we will be back again to this campground

Michael S.

Reviewed Jul. 29, 2020

Pretty Bunk.....

Well not sure where to begin, but best place seems Reservation through DNR website. I made my Reservation with no issues, maps of campground looked great, and all seemed great upon booking. Plugged the address into IPhone that was on my Reservation and when I got there not only was the address not an address, but more a spot at end of triangle in road some 1/8 - 1/4 mile past one of what I learned later, many Park entrances.

I doubled back to entrance and checked in with girl at desk. I should’ve known when I wasn’t on her check in sheet and she had to go to computer to find me, I was screwed or about to be. She did in fact find me and now informed me that my campsite was another 5-7 miles away on a road she did not know the name of, but did provide me with a map?.?.?

I finally got to the Deep Lake Rustic portion of the Yankee Springs Rec Area and made my way to my campsite. Now in the past when you look at DNR website and pictures of campsites you are booking, the illustration in very accurate not only in scale but obstacles you may face in route to destination. The drawing for this portion of the campground very much made like it seem there were multiple sites at the Rustic area on or very close to the lake. This was far from the case. The lake was close, but the woods was not something you could cut through easily then if you do, no shore, no dock, no swimming?

To make matters worse, and maybe due to COVID, best looking sites were listed as booked when I looked yet sat empty a day and a half I was there????? Closest market too up the road from “actual” entrance has not restocked since COVID. Really sucks when you can get just an Iced Tea.....

DNR or Yankee Springs to blame on this I’m not sure, but needs to be fixed online and in person.

Joie V.

Ranger

Reviewed Jun. 21, 2020

Overrated

I think this campground is overrated but maybe I just got swimmers itch at this lake as a kid to many times. Gun Lake is crowed and very warm towards end of summer. Sites are decent size and wooded.

Korrie H.

Reviewed Jul. 13, 2019

Awesome place for family

Went tent camped with electricity for 2 nights. Bathrooms and showers are nice. The park is safe enough for kids to bike around. The beach is clean and fun. We will definitely plan another visit!

Sara G.

Reviewed Jul. 31, 2018

Lake is rocky

Wear aqua shoes lake is rocky

Mateo J.

Reviewed Jun. 9, 2017

All about the Trails!

This is the Modern campground at Yankee. It's not bad, well maintained. More of a RV and motorboat kinda campground and the noise and light pollution you'd associate with that. But the trails (hiking and mtb) were worth it. Some of the best riding in the state.

Month of VisitAugust

Nicole R.