Applegate Cove Campground

I sort of threw darts at a board to where I would be camping next, and Applegate Cove was my destination this time. The campground is fairly small, but each lot is well maintained. The ground was a bit hard to drive tent stakes into, but I'm attributing that to the weather and season until I visit again and disprove that. There's a small walking loop down to the Arkansas river which left me a gorgeous view of the sunset, unfortunately I also visited during a fishing competition which brought quite a few people, making it a bit of a noisy area during the day as they were using the campground boat slip and dock to cast off from. You can also hear river barges during all hours, though personally I slept through all of the supposed noise. My only real complaint was that one of the bathrooms was in considerably worse condition than the other and you could smell it up to twenty feet away, which after learning I took the extra minute to walk to the nicer one. The shower was good and hot, no complaints there. All in all, I'm pretty happy with how my stay went, and there's very little I disliked about the campgrounds.

Older Park. Renovations are being done... Pads, 10 ft picnic tables, playground... Right off the lake with awesome scenery. Couple who manages the place is really nice and helpful. Would stop here again.

Spacious site, some more level than others. We stayed at site with pad and patio.

We tried to get in to this nice little place late on a Friday afternoon only to find it was all booked up. We talked to the hosts in person having driven in there. They were very nice and helpful, but full up! Beware—-I had tried to call ahead hours before, but the phone number listed on Dyrt takes you to the Army Corp of Engineers who are technically in charge of all these campgrounds but they do not know the status of reservations so you must call this number: 877-444-6777. We did and after a 30 minute call back wait we got immediately disconnected! They did not try again and neither did we. We were driving around the backroads looking for the other two nearby campgrounds, which do not exist on the app map locator. We gave up and called the nearby KOA.

Beautiful sunsets, quit and very clean. Two playgrounds and a clean bath/shower house. We love camping here.