River Bend County Park

This is one of our favorite pack and go campgrounds when we just need to get away from the house. It's so clean. The grounds and facilities are taken care of. The showers are awesome! There's a great spot for playing in the river, too :)

We drove through loops E and F to check them out, looking for a place to stay for the night. All sites look the same, well maintained, kind of boring. Minimal amount of privacy between sites. Kids running around all over the place. We decided to keep moving to find something more interesting and low key and peaceful feeling, but still giving this place 5 stars because it's a nice place, it's just not our style. (We ended up at Cascade State Park, which was more what we were looking for).

You can make reservations here, or drive up and see if any sites are available for that day. We drove through here on a Thursday in late August and there were only 3 sites available for walk up. Some sites are partial hookup (electric and water) and some are non-hookup. 

There is a book exchange at check in kiosk, always a pleasant feature for us :)

There was a long line at the dump station, so maybe plan ahead for that.

Weak but usable verizon and ATT.

We had a great time staying at River Bend! This was our first trip here and won’t be our last, we’ve already made reservations for next year.

The sites were maintained very well and the camp hosts were very friendly. In addition to the paved driveway for our trailer, there always a nice, large concrete pad for the picnic table with a fire pit built on to the corner. The neighboring site on the right was 20-30 yards away and the site on the left was 100+ yards away. Lots of trees all around, good shade for those hot August days.

The bathrooms for the loop were a nice walk but not too far and they were cleaned 2x per day.

We spent most of our days at the river swimming, floating in tubes, skipping rocks and looking for crawdads. It was an easy walk on well maintained trails to get to the river.

The playground and adjacent field were fun for playing and games in the evenings.

Being a long, hot year there were no fires allowed in the fire pits. That was a small bummer, but the fire danger was so high that it wasn’t a big deal. We used our propane fire ring instead and that was great. Kind of nice coming away from a camping trip and not smelling of smoke 😁